Code of Virginia
Title 32.1 - Health
Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control

§ 32.1-36.1. Confidentiality of test for human immunodeficiency virus; civil penalty; individual action for damages or penalty - A. The results of every test to determine infection with...

§ 32.1-37. Reports by persons other than physicians - A. The person in charge of any medical care facility...

§ 32.1-37.01. Posting of information about cases of communicable disease of public health threat - A. As used in this section: "Reporting entity" means a...

§ 32.1-37.1. Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies - Upon transferring custody of any dead body to any person...

§ 32.1-37.2. Consent for testing for human immunodeficiency virus; condition on disclosure of test results; counseling required; exceptions - A. Prior to performing any test to determine infection with...

§ 32.1-38. Immunity from liability - Any person making a report or disclosure required or authorized...

§ 32.1-39. Surveillance and investigation - A. The Board shall provide for the surveillance of and...

§ 32.1-40. Authority of Commissioner to examine medical records - Every practitioner of the healing arts and every person in...

§ 32.1-41. Anonymity of patients and practitioners to be preserved in use of medical records - The Commissioner or his designee shall preserve the anonymity of...

§ 32.1-42. Emergency rules and regulations - The Board of Health may promulgate regulations and orders to...

§ 32.1-42.1. Administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices and vaccines during a declared disaster or emergency - A. The Commissioner, pursuant to § 54.1-3408, may authorize persons...

§ 32.1-42.2. Declared emergency; priority for personal protective equipment and immunization; funeral service licensees and funeral service establishment employees - In any case in which the Board or the Commissioner...

§ 32.1-43. Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc. - The State Health Commissioner shall have the authority to require...

§ 32.1-44. Isolated or quarantined persons - The provisions of this chapter shall be construed to allow...

§ 32.1-45. Expense of treatment - Except as specifically provided by law, the provisions of this...

§ 32.1-45.1. Deemed consent to testing and release of test results related to infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses - A. Whenever any health care provider, or any person employed...

§ 32.1-45.2. Public safety employees; testing for blood-borne pathogens; procedure available for certain citizens; definitions - A. If, in the course of employment, an employee of...

§ 32.1-45.3. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 301, cl. 1.

§ 32.1-45.4. Comprehensive harm reduction programs - A. The Commissioner or his designee may authorize the director...

§ 32.1-46. Immunization of patients against certain diseases - A. The parent, guardian or person standing in loco parentis...

§ 32.1-46.01. Virginia Immunization Information System - A. The Board of Health shall establish the Virginia Immunization...

§ 32.1-46.02. Administration of influenza vaccine to minors - The Board shall, together with the Board of Nursing and...

§ 32.1-46.1. Board to establish protocol for identification of children with elevated blood-lead levels - The Board shall promulgate regulations establishing a protocol for the...

§ 32.1-46.2. Certain testing or determination of low risk for elevated blood-lead levels required - In accordance with the protocol required by § 32.1-46.1 and...

§ 32.1-47. Exclusion from school of children not immunized - Upon the identification of an outbreak, potential epidemic or epidemic...

§ 32.1-47.1. Vaccination of children; plan enhancements - The Department shall include in its vaccination plans procedures to...

§ 32.1-48. Powers of Commissioner in epidemic - A. Nothing in this article shall preclude the Commissioner from...

§ 32.1-48.001. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 472, cl. 2) Real-time information sharing for emergency medical services agencies - A. The Department shall develop and implement a system for...

§ 32.1-48.01. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...

§ 32.1-48.02. Investigations of verified reports or medical evidence; counseling; outpatient and emergency treatment orders; custody upon emergency order; application of article - A. Upon receiving at least two verified reports or upon...

§ 32.1-48.03. Petition for hearing; temporary detention - A. Upon receiving a verified report or upon receiving medical...

§ 32.1-48.04. Isolation hearing; conditions; order for isolation; right to appeal - A. The isolation hearing shall be held within 48 hours...

§ 32.1-48.05. Application of article; determination of exceptional circumstances; regulations; duties of the State Health Commissioner not be delegated - A. Upon a determination by the State Health Commissioner that...

§ 32.1-48.06. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...

§ 32.1-48.07. Conditions for invoking the provisions of this article - A. Prior to issuing any order of quarantine or any...

§ 32.1-48.08. Declaration of quarantine - A. The State Health Commissioner may declare a quarantine of...

§ 32.1-48.09. Order of quarantine - A. The State Health Commissioner shall, prior to placing any...

§ 32.1-48.010. Appeal of any order of quarantine - A. Any person or persons subject to an order of...

§ 32.1-48.011. Isolation may be ordered under certain exceptional circumstances; Commissioner authorized to require hospitalization or other health care - A. Whenever the State Health Commissioner makes a determination of...

§ 32.1-48.012. Isolation order - A. The State Health Commissioner shall, prior to placing any...

§ 32.1-48.013. Appeal of any order of isolation - A. Any person or persons subject to an order of...

§ 32.1-48.013:1. Electronic filings as protection from communicable disease - Notwithstanding Rule 1:17 of the Supreme Court of Virginia, a...

§ 32.1-48.014. Enforcement of orders of quarantine or isolation; penalties - A. Any person who does not comply with a validly...

§ 32.1-48.015. Authorization to disclose health records - A. The provisions of this article are hereby declared to...

§ 32.1-48.016. Immunity from liability - Any person, including a person who serves in a Medical...

§ 32.1-48.017. Use of public or private property or facilities - A. Upon the declaration by the Governor of a state...

§ 32.1-48.1. Regulation of State Health Commissioner declaring existence of rabies; display and publication - Whenever the State Health Commissioner is informed that an outbreak...

§ 32.1-48.2. Regulation of Commissioner requiring vaccination or inoculation of dogs - When the State Health Commissioner has declared that an outbreak...

§ 32.1-48.3. Regulations of Commissioner covering local ordinances and requirements - If the governing body of the county or city in...

§ 32.1-48.4. Commissioner to cooperate with local governing bodies and agencies - The Commissioner shall, insofar as practicable, cooperate with the local...

§ 32.1-49. Tuberculosis required to be reported - The Board shall include tuberculosis in the list of diseases...

§ 32.1-49.1. Definitions - "Active tuberculosis disease" means a communicable disease caused by an...

§ 32.1-50. Examination of persons suspected of having active tuberculosis disease; reporting; report forms; report schedule; laboratory reports and required samples - A. Any local health director may request any person having...

§ 32.1-50.1. Treatment plan; submission of plan and mediation of disagreements; determination of cure - A. Each physician practicing in the Commonwealth who assumes responsibility...

§ 32.1-50.2. Administration of tuberculin purified protein derivative by nurses; policies and guidelines - The Department shall issue policies and guidelines governing the possession...

§ 32.1-51. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 958.

§ 32.1-53. Facilities and contracts for treatment of tuberculosis patients - The Board may construct and operate hospitals and other facilities...

§ 32.1-54. Commissioner authorized to charge patients for care - When a tuberculosis patient is admitted to a facility operated...

§ 32.1-55. Definition - As used in this article, "venereal disease" includes syphilis, gonorrhea,...

§ 32.1-55.1. Anonymous testing sites for human immunodeficiency virus - From such funds as are appropriated for this purpose, the...

§ 32.1-56. Information to be provided patients - It shall be the duty of every physician or other...

§ 32.1-57. Examination, testing and treatment; failure to comply with order of examination - A. A local health director may require any person suspected...

§ 32.1-58. Persons convicted of certain crimes to be examined, tested and treated - Each person convicted of a violation of § 18.2-346, 18.2-346.01,...

§ 32.1-59. Examination and treatment in certain institutions - Every person admitted to any state correctional institution and every...

§ 32.1-60. Prenatal tests required - Every physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner attending a pregnant...

§ 32.1-61. Definition - As used in this article, "ophthalmia neonatorum" means any inflammation,...

§ 32.1-62. Procedure upon infant's birth - In order to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum, the physician, nurse or...

§ 32.1-63. Duty of physician, midwife or nurse noting ophthalmia neonatorum - It shall be the duty of any physician, midwife or...

§ 32.1-64. Duty of Board to provide for treatment - The Board shall provide for the gratuitous distribution of the...

§ 32.1-64.1. Virginia Hearing Loss Identification and Monitoring System - A. In order to identify hearing loss at the earliest...

§ 32.1-64.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; Commissioner required to contact parents, physicians, and relevant local early intervention program - The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is...

§ 32.1-65. Certain newborn screening required - In order to prevent intellectual disability and permanent disability or...

§ 32.1-65.1. Critical congenital heart defect screening test required - In order to prevent disability or death, the Board shall...

§ 32.1-66. Commissioner to notify physicians; reports to Commissioner - Whenever a newborn screening test result indicates suspicion of any...

§ 32.1-67. Duty of Board for follow-up and referral protocols; regulations - Infants identified with any condition for which newborn screening is...

§ 32.1-67.1. Confidentiality of records; prohibition of discrimination - The results of the newborn screening services conducted pursuant to...

§ 32.1-68. Commissioner to establish screening and treatment program; review by Board; program to include education and post-screening counseling; laboratory tests - A. The Commissioner, in cooperation with local health directors, shall...

§ 32.1-69. Records confidential; disclosure of results of screening - The results of any particular screening program shall be sent...

§ 32.1-69.1. Virginia Congenital Anomalies Reporting and Education System - A. In order to collect data to evaluate the possible...

§ 32.1-69.1:1. Dissemination of information regarding birth defects - The Commissioner shall develop a publication concerning the role of...

§ 32.1-69.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; authority of Commissioner to contact parents and physicians - The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is...

§ 32.1-69.3. Virginia Cord Blood Bank Initiative established - A. There is hereby established the Virginia Cord Blood Bank...

§ 32.1-69.4. Publication of information regarding cord blood education - In addition to the requirements of § 32.1-69.3, the Commissioner...

§ 32.1-70. Information from hospitals, clinics, certain laboratories and physicians supplied to Commissioner; statewide cancer registry - A. Each hospital, clinic and independent pathology laboratory shall make...

§ 32.1-70.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1998, c. 315.

§ 32.1-70.2. Collection of cancer case information by the Commissioner - A. Using such funds as may be appropriated therefor, the...

§ 32.1-71. Confidential nature of information supplied; publication; reciprocal data-sharing agreements - A. The Commissioner and all persons to whom information is...

§ 32.1-71.01. Penalties for unauthorized use of statewide cancer registry - In addition to the remedies provided in § 32.1-27, any...

§ 32.1-71.02. Notification of cancer patients of statewide cancer registry reporting - A. Any physician diagnosing a malignant tumor or cancer shall,...

§ 32.1-71.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1994, c. 109.

§ 32.1-72. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, cc. 747 and 873.

§ 32.1-73. Failure to comply with provisions; grounds for revocation of license or permit - The failure of any physician, nurse or midwife to comply...

§ 32.1-73.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2002, c. 60.

§ 32.1-73.5. Comprehensive statewide asthma management plan - A. Using such funds as may be appropriated therefor, the...

§ 32.1-73.6. Implementation of state asthma management programs - A. Using such funds as may be appropriated for this...

§ 32.1-73.7. Department to be lead agency for youth suicide prevention - With such funds as may be appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-73.8. Youth health risk behavior survey - The Department shall, in cooperation with the Department of Behavioral...

§ 32.1-73.9. Advisory Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome; membership - A. There is hereby created in the executive branch of...

§ 32.1-73.10. Advisory Council; report - The Advisory Council shall report to the Governor and the...

§ 32.1-73.11. (Continued pursuant to Acts 2022, Sp. S. I, c. 2, item 299 D) Sunset - This article shall expire on July 1, 2020. 2017, c....

§ 32.1-73.12. Department to be lead agency for services for substance-exposed infants - The Department shall serve as the lead agency with responsibility...

§ 32.1-73.13. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; early detection and diagnosis; risk reduction and care planning - Using such funds as may be available for such purpose,...

§ 32.1-73.14. Rare Disease Council; purpose - There is hereby created in the executive branch of state...

§ 32.1-73.15. Powers and duties of the Council - The Council shall have the power and duty to: 1....

§ 32.1-73.16. Membership; terms; quorum; meetings; staffing - A. The Council shall have a total membership of 21...

§ 32.1-73.17. Rare Disease Council Fund - There is hereby created in the state treasury a special...

§ 32.1-73.18. Renal Disease Council; purpose - There is hereby created in the executive branch of state...

§ 32.1-73.19. Powers and duties of the Council - The Council shall have the power and duty to: 1....

§ 32.1-73.20. Membership; terms; quorum; meetings; staffing - A. The Council shall have a total membership of 21...

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Code of Virginia Title 32.1 - Health Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control

Code of Virginia
Title 32.1 - Health
Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control