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Health Care Decisions Act; patients incapable of making informed decisions; absence of next of kin. Authorizes, for purposes of the Health Care Decisions Act, the patient care consulting committee to make health care decisions for a patient incapable of making informed decisions when no next of kin is reasonably available.
Introduced
Dec 17, 2025
Last Action
Feb 9, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 2 co
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
Rereferred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Passed by temporarily
Read second time
Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
Education and Health Amendment agreed to
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Passed by for the day
Senate committee offered
Reported from Education and Health with amendment (11-Y 2-N 1-A)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB71)
Senate subcommittee offered
Assigned Education sub: Health
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101398D
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Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
Barbara A. Favola
Saddam Azlan Salim