Healthcare

1940
An Act to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 3, 4, and 9 of the Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as heretofore amended, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1638 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to optometry and to the practice of optometry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5 and 11 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as amended and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act, said sections relating to disqualifications for benefits, and to administration of said act.

1942
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 1615-a, authorizing the State Board of Medical Examiners to admit to examinations given by such board, applicants otherwise qualified who have completed the prescribed courses in not less than thirty-two months.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 385 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, and therein designated as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act, relating to persons to whom a license shall not be issued.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1698-a, 1698-b, 1698-c, 1698-d and 1698-e, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to hypnotic drugs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 684, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, providing methods for enforcing attendance of certain children at public schools.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Chincoteague, Accomack County, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Chincoteague.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1789 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the control by the State Board of Health of the public water supply, so as to authorize said board to require changes in methods or processes of purification of water.
An ACT relating to the public health, providing for the establishment of special emergency health and sanitation areas; and providing for the making and enforcing of health and sanitation rules and regulations within such areas and for the construction and operation of essential health and sanitation facilities.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1943, and the thirtieth day of June, 1944, to prescribe the provisos, terms, conditions and provisions with respect to the items of appropriation and their payment, and to repeal all acts wholly in conflict with this bill, and all parts of all acts inconsistent with this bill to the extent of such inconsistency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section Nineteen-o of an act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926.
An ACT to authorize the Fredericksburg Normal and Industrial Institute to dispose of its property and distribute its assets.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1497 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the duties of local health authorities and of the State Board of Health upon the occurrence of certain diseases.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Chatham, in the County of Pittsylvania; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present governing body and council while in office, not inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1014-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to private funds of patients in State hospitals and colonies and the use and investment of such funds.
Proposing amendment to Section 73 of the Constitution of Virginia:
An ACT to create a sanitary district in Chesterfield County; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such county as to such district; to provide for the construction, acquisition, maintenance, and operation of certain public utilities and services in such district; and to provide that the said board of supervisors shall, with respect to such district, have all such powers and duties as are imposed upon the boards of supervisors with respect to sanitary districts by general law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 13 of Chapter 489 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended, relative to the employment of children.
An ACT to establish a contributory retirement system for certain State employees, and for public school teachers and certain other employees of local public school boards; and to repeal Chapter 36 and Sections 787 to 805, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the retirement of teachers.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the City of Martinsville; to validate certain contracts and obligations of the said city; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, and all former charters of the city of Martinsville.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new Section numbered 1515-b, to prohibit the removal of cases of infectious, contagious, communicable or dangerous diseases from one health jurisdiction to another except with the permission of the health officers of both jurisdictions, and to prescribe penalty for failure to comply therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1616 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the compensation and expenses of the State Board of Medical Examiners.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1515-a, requiring certain persons to report certain information concerning communicable diseases, and imposing penalty for failure so to do.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 33 of Chapter 94, Acts, 1934, approved March 7, 1934, short title of which is ‘““The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act”, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by druggists upon prescriptions,
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered 190-a, so as to classify optometrists separately under the revenue license laws and impose annually State revenue license taxes on them.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 20 of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, of which the short title is 'Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19b, 28, 28a, 80 and 105 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended, and to amend said act by adding thereto seven new sections numbered 63a, 63b, 63c, 63d, 63e, 96a and 96b so as to provide for leave of absence for officers and employees of the city of Richmond serving: in the military and naval forces of the United States of America, the production of books and records of taxpayers for examination by assessing officers of the city of Richmond for the purpose of enforcing the tax and revenue laws of the State and ordinances of the City of Richmond, the refund of taxes and charges erroneously assessed by the city of Richmond and paid and the exoneration from the payment of unpaid erroneous assessments and the assessment of omitted taxes, penalties and interest, the creation of a separate department of the government of the city of Richmond to secure and promote public health and sanitation and to prescribe its powers and duties.
An ACT to authorize the Governor to accept, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a Conveyance from the Tidewater Tuberculosis Hospital Association of certain property in Princess Anne County; to authorize the State Board of Health when such conveyance is made, to control, maintain, operate and use such property in connection with its work in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section, designated Section 1006-b, conferring and imposing certain additional powers and duties upon the State Hospital Board.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Kenbridge, in the County of Lunenburg, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to provide for receiving and maintaining in State Hospitals Federal prisoners whose sanity is in doubt for detention and diagnosis.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 6, and 8, as amended, of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, of which the short title is “Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938”, said sections relating, respectively, to definitions, to local boards and to local superintendents and employees.

1944
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1703 of the Code of Virginia relating to Composition and appointment of the State Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5, as amended, of Chap 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, and designated as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act, relating to persons to whom a license shall not be issued.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1716 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for tt
An ACT to repeal sections 1608 to 1623, both inclusive (including sections 1614-a and 1615-a), of the Code of Virginia, as amended, the said sections relating to the practice of medicine, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto and inserting in chapter 68 thereof in lieu of the sections herein repealed 17 new sections numbered 1608 to 1623, both inclusive, and section 1613-a, defining and regulating the practice of the healing arts ia the State of Virginia.
A Joint RESOLUTION proposing amendment to Section 183 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1004 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate.
An ACT to create, establish and maintain an institution for the study, treatment, prevention and research of mental disorders and the training of students, nurses and physicians, under the name of the Virginia Institute of Psychiatry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5985, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemptions from jury service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1575, 1578 and 1580 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, relating to vital statistics (by incorporating, with certain changes, the provisions of Sections 15, 18 and 20 of Chapter 181, Acts 1912, approved March 12, 1912, as amended by Chapter 58, Acts 1918, approved February 16, 1918, into Sections 1575, 1578, and 1580, respectively, of the Code of 1919) ; to add a new section to the Code numbered 1575-a, relating to the same subject (by incorporating therein, with certain changes, the provisions of Chapter 338, Acts 1942, approved March 31, 1942); to repeal Sections 15, 18 and 20 of Chapter 181, Acts 1912, approved March 12, 1912 and all amendments of these sections, particularly Chapter 58, Acts 1918, approved February 16, 1918, relating to the same subject; and to repeal Chapter 338, Acts 1942, approved March 31, 1942, relating to the same subject.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 6, 8 and 9 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to the compensation and expenses of sheriffs and sergeants, the feeding and care of jail prisoners and the payment of the costs thereof, the method of keeping and certifying accounts covering such costs, the furnishing of unusual medical, hospital and dental service to prisoners, and prohibiting the use of prisoners in certain instances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact certain sections of the Code of Virginia as follows: Sections 1020 and 1022 as amended, 1030, 1031 as amended, 1032, 1033, 1034, 1035, 1037 and 1038, all relating to the care, custody and control of insane and feeble-minded persons, epileptics and inebriates; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding seven new sections numbered 1020-a, 1035-a, 1035-b, 1037-a, 1037-b, 1037-c and 1037-d, all relating to various and several aspects of the same subject.
An ACT to authorize the Governor of Virginia and the State Hospital Board, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to convey to the College of William and Mary in Virginia, as a gift and without any consideration paid therefor, certain property of the Eastern State Hospital in the city of Williamsburg and the county of James City.
An ACT to amend Chapter 400 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, which became a law without the approval of the Governor March 21, 1918, known as "The Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act', as it has been amended from time to time, in order to extend the scope of the law to include certain coverage of occupational diseases; and to such end, to amend and re-enact, as previously amended, Section 2, by re-enacting the matter of Section 2, with certain amendments, as follows: Section 2, and five new sections numbered 2-a, 2-b, 2-c, 2-d and 2-e; and to add to the law eleven other new sections numbered 2-f, 2-g, 2-h, 2-1, 2-j, 2-k, 2-1, 2-m, 2-n, 2-0 and 2-p.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 86 of the Act of Assembly of 1934, approved March 5, 1934, relating to cocaine and other similar drugs and mixtures thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1698-a and 1698-c of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to hypnotic drugs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of Chapter 364 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 20, 1920, relating to the control and prevention of venereal disease; and to further amend the chapter by adding a new section numbered 4-a, relating to the same subject.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Middleburg, in Loudoun County, Virginia; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 3, as amended, of an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Medical College of Virginia.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1006 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the State Hospital Board and certain of its powers and duties, so as to make certain changes in the per diem expenses of members.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 58 of Chapter 34 of the Acts of 1918, entitled “An act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 13, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk.”, approved the 7th day of February, 1918, relating to the Department of Public Welfare of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1274 of the Code of Virginia, relating to composition and appointment of the Board of Veterinary Examiners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1579 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the fees of local registrars of vital statistics.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1625 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia State Board of Examiners in Optometry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 10, 13 as amended, 23, 33, 40 43 as amended, 53 and 71 of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, short title of which is “Virginia Public ‘Assistance Act of 1938” to allow reciprocal interstate agreements regarding residence of applicants, to give the local welfare boards complete discretion in the determination of awards, to simplify the procedures regarding fair hearings and to change the short title.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1642 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners.
An ACT for the relief of I. J. Smith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1666 of the Code of Virginia relating to composition and appointment of the Board of Pharmacy of the State of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the Medical College of Virginia to issue and sell certificates of indebtedness to meet certain existing indebtedness, to prescribe how such certificates shall be secured, issued, sold, or otherwise disposed of, and to provide a sinking fund to retire such certificates at maturity,

1945es
An ACT for the relief of J. M. Arrington.
An ACT to authorize and direct tne Department of Health to make a survey of all hospitals, health centers, and related facilities in this State, to ascertain the need for additional hospitals, health centers and related facilities and to develop plans and programs for the construction thereof, to authorize the Department to accept advances or grants of Federal funds for such pur-<br />poses, and to appropriate all such funds so received.

1946
An ACT to provide for police and firemen’s pensions and benefits in certain counties.
An ACT to provide for Police and Firemen’s pensions and benefits in certain counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1486 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the State Board of Health, so as to add a Member of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association to the Board.
An ACT to provide for the regulation of the operation of refrigerated locker plants and the dealing in, handling and processing of food for human consumption in connection therewith; to provide standards of sanitation and quality; to provide a system of licenses; defining certain offenses and providing penalties therefor; and providing for lien and foreclosure.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1080-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the appointment of guardians or committees for persons incapable of taking care of their person or property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3035 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, authorizing cities and towns to provide pensions, death benefits, insurance or annuities for certain officers and employees or their dependents, including certain retired teachers and retired employees of school boards.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1204 of the Code of Virginia relating to sterilization of certain containers.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 1516-a, providing what acts of tubercular persons constitute misdemeanor and penalty therefor.
An ACT proposing an Amendment to Section 51 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to declare the necessity of creating public bodies corporate and politic to be known as hospital authorities to engage in hospital construction, maintenance and operation, to provide for the creation of such hospital authorities; to define the powers and duties of hospital authorities, and to provide for the exercise of such powers, including acquiring property by purchase, gift or eminent domain, and borrowing money, issuing revenue and credit bonds and other obligations, and giving security therefor; and to confer rights upon and provide remedies for obligees of hospital authorities.
An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to appropriate funds for erection and maintenance of certain memorials.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5334, and 5335 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to lands of persons under disabilities, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 5334-a, making certain provisions of Chapter 217 of the Code applicable to the lands of certain ex-service persons.
An ACT to provide for the hospitalization and treatment of indigent persons through joint action of the State and the counties and cities thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 6, 8 and 18 of the Virginia Retirement Act, Section 8 having been heretofore amended by an act approved April 9, 1945, the said sections relating to membership, service retirement, and management of funds, respectively.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3, as amended, of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Medical College of Virginia."
An ACT to provide for the construction of a building to be used by certain State agencies and departments; the procurement of a site therefor; the preparation of architectural plans; to provide a Commission to supervise the construction and equipping of such building, and to authorize the use of funds appropriated therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4, as amended, and Section 11 of Chapter 335 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938 and known, designated and cited as the ‘ ‘Sanitation Districts Law of Nineteen hundred and Thirty-eight”, in relation to the rights, powers, duties, compensation, officers and functions of the boards or commissions created in and for sanitation districts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1019 as amended, 1023, 1035-a, and 1077 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to hospitals for and care of the insane, epileptic, feebleminded and inebriate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1514, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to local tuberculosis sanatoria and reimbursement thereof by State.
An ACT for the relief of George Turner.
An ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board to grant, convey, release and quitclaim unto the Virginia Lincoln Corporation all right, title and interest of the Southwestern State Hospital and the Commonwealth of Virginia in a certain tract of land near Marion, Virginia, heretofore conveyed under a deed in which the description is alleged to have been inadequate or erroneous.
An ACT to designate and authorize the State Department of Health to accept certain Federal grants under certain conditions; and to provide for the deposit and disbursing thereof.
An ACT to provide for the creation in the political subdivisions of the Commonwealth of hospital or health center commissions for the purpose of establishing and operating hospitals or health centers for such political subdivisions; and to prescribe the rights, powers, duties and functions of such commissions when so formed, including the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of hospitals and health centers, borrowing money, issuing revenue bonds or other obligations, and giving security
An ACT to amend Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the “Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of 1938”
An ACT to appropriate certain funds to the Medical College of Virginia to be used as a student loan fund.
An ACT to revise the laws of Virginia with respect to post-mortem examinations, and to that end to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter numbered 190-A and 15 new sections numbered 4806-a to 4806-0, both inclusive, creating a Commission on Post-Mortem Examinations and prescribing its powers, duties and functions; to provide for the appointment of a Chief Medical Examiner, and to prescribe his powers and duties with respect to post-mortem examinations and investigations ; to provide for the dis- position of certain dead bodies and of any property or estate of such deceased persons; to amend Section 1727, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to embalming dead bodies, and Sections 2817 and 2821 of said Code relating to the service of process and summons by coroners and others and the appoint- ment of criers for courts; and to repeal Sections 2815, 2818 and 2819 of the Code of Virginia relating to coroners, Chapter 190 of the Code of Virginia relating to coroners and coroner’s inquests, and Chapter 214 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932 relating to disposition by coroners of money or property of deceased persons.
An ACT to authorize the State Board of Public Welfare to establish a state-wide system of public homes for certain persons, to prescribe standards for such homes and for the care of persons resident therein, and to eB Ca that persons cared for in such homes may receive public assistance.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Wachapreague
An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 354 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 1, 1942, relating to establishment, terms and conditions of certain medical scholarships, so as to expand the provisions oo and make an appropriation therefor.
An ACT to provide how fire departments and fire companies may be established in counties; to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties or towns to enter into contracts with the governing bodies of certain other counties or towns, concerning fire protection in such counties and towns; to prescribe the limitations of liability when any fire department or fire company is operating outside the limits of the county or town wherein it was established or formed; to authorize the governing bodies of counties to provide for compensation to firemen injured, or the families of firemen killed, and to appropriate money for such purpose, and for other purposes in connection with the maintenance and operation of such fire departments or companies; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 57, as amended, of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the "Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of 1938", relating to persons eligible for general relief; and to further amend the act by adding thereto a new section, numbered 59-a, providing for appeals in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1698-a and 1698-c of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to hypnotic drugs.
An ACT to prohibit the using of certain kinds of materials in the making or remaking of mattresses and certain other articles of bedding; to prohibit the selling, leasing, et cetera, of such articles, which have not been sterilized and disinfected; to require every person engaged in sterilizing and disinfecting such articles to obtain a permit to do so; to provide for inspection of certain places; to require certain tags to be placed on certain articles of bedding and certain adhesive stamps to be placed on such tags; to provide for the sale of such stamps and how the proceeds thereof shall be disposed of; to charge the State Board of Health with the administration of this act; and to prescribe penalties for violations.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the City of Radford and to repeal the existing charter of the said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act so far as they relate to the said City of Radford.
An ACT to authorize the State Board of Public Welfare to fix standards and make regulations for the operation of certain homes for aged, infirm, chronically ill or incapacitated persons, and to require compliance with such standards; and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 74 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to compensation for livestock and poultry, killed or injured, and treatment of rabies.