Healthcare

1920
An ACT to amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, and 103 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, and to repeal sections 2 and 93 of said act and to add thereto sections 14a, 55a, 99a, 116a, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132, which deal with and provide for vacancies in the council; the initiative and referendum; the general powers and duties of the department of public welfare; the division of the city into school districts and the election of trustees therefor; the creation of a civil service commission and its rules and regulations; the jurisdiction of courts to enforce ordinances; rules and regulations upon city owned property outside of the city; continuance of present officers in office until January 1, 1921, and the vacating of certain offices at that time; the penalties for violation of certain sections; the working of prisoners; the appointment of boards and the creation of pension funds.
An Act to amend section 1646 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1029 of the Code of Virginia in relation to testing the legality of detention of persons adjudged insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a cottage at Catawba sanatorium for tubercular teachers, approved March 14.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1615 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia and to repeal all acts or part of act of the general assembly of Virginia, and any section or section of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions thereof, especially an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 22, 1894, and sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751, and 1752, of the Code of Virginia of 1887; and all amendments thereto, approved March 13, 1912, approved March 27, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1636 of the Code of Virginia

1922
An ACT to require the examination for venereal disease of all persons admitted to the State penitentiary, State penitentiary farm, or to any branch prison, to any of the reformatories of the State, or to any of the hospitals for the insane or colonies for the epileptic and feeble-minded, and the proper treatment of those found so affected.
An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation, and inspection of maternity hospitals, and to repeal sections 1925 to 1930, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to require industrial sick benefit companies to insert in policies of industrial sick benefit insurance hereafter issued by them a provision permitting the cancellation of the sick benefit portion of the policy under certain conditions.
An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation and inspection of children’s boarding houses and nurseries.
An ACT providing for a commission on mental health.
An ACT to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918.
An ACT to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to make appropriation for its maintenance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4909 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1799, 1802, 1807, 1817, 1822 and 1830 and to repeal sections 1831 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the acceptance of the benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise; to provide for the appointment of a custodian of all moneys received by the State from appropriations made by the Congress of the United States for the purpose stated; to provide for the appointment of a State board to co-operate with the Federal board for vocational education in carrying out the provisions of said act, and prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for a plan of co-operation between such State board and the industrial commission of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1173 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk.
An ACT to accept the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, approved November 23, 1921, entitled an act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes.
An ACT to authorize “Occupational Therapy” to be provided for children in certain institutions.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to establish a home for women and girls convicted of certain offenses.
An ACT to continue the board of charities and corrections under the name of State board of public welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections 1888 to 1902, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Charlottesville, and to provide a charter and special form of government for the said city, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Charlottesville.
An Act making appropriations for the support of the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the year ending February 29, 1924.
An ACT to prohibit the baiting of wild turkeys in this State for the purpose of killing or capturing same.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1039 and 1075 and 1077 of title 12, chapter 46, of the Code of Virginia, 1919, relative to the insane, epileptics, feeble-minded, and inebriates.
An ACT to provide for the training and licensing of attendants for the sick under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 45, 46, 61 and 69 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act
An ACT to authorize the city manager of the city of Newport News to appoint some physician to attend prisoners confined in the city jail or at the city prison farm for violations of city ordinances or non-payment of city fines, and to fix the compensation for such services.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1704, 1706, 1708 and 1714 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1585, 1586, 1587, 1588, 1589, 1590, 1592, 1593 and 1595, and to repeal section 1591 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to require commitment to the State board of charities and corrections of certain misdemeanants on indeterminate sentences; and to provide what disposition said board may make of such persons.
An ACT to provide a suitable pavilion at Catawba and Piedmont sanatoria for the care of young children with active disease from tuberculosis infection and providing moneys therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1569 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide dispensary facilities for the rural districts by promoting the tuberculosis educational division of the State board of health and appropriating moneys therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1028 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1707 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation within the Commonwealth of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, lime-sulphur compounds, and other insecticides and fungicides, and regulating traffic therein; providing for inspection of such materials, and imposing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1905 to 1922, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.

1923es
An ACT to authorize the establishment of a county hospital by the counties of Prince Edward and Cumberland, or either of them, and any contiguous county or counties, should the regular qualified voters of each such county so elect, and to provide for the submission of such question to the voters of the respective counties, and authorizing the issuance of bonds by the counties so electing for such purpose, upon the vote of the people so directing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax, and appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation within the Commonwealth of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, lime sulphur compounds, and other insecticides and fungicides, and regulating traffic therein; providing for inspection of such materials, and imposing penalties
An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1492 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $250,000.00 to the University of Virginia provided the University of Virginia can obtain elsewhere the sum of $750,000.00, the whole of such sum to be used tor the purpose of properly housing and developing and teaching the medical sciences, and for poeple purposes.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending,
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties, and for the regulation of traffic thereon.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 1015 and 2172 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1822 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1486 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1498 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 63 of the said Code, on the subject of the State board of health and local boards.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1636 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1662, 1664, 1665, 1670, 1673, 1674, 1678, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, and 1687, and to repeal section 1689 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections relate to the practice of arae
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henry to borrow the sum of $100,000.00 and to issue serial bonds or notes for the same running from one to ten years; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity; to provide that the money so borrowed shall be used for the retirement or payment of any notes, bonds or warrants heretofore issued by said board; to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 to be used for the construction and permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said county under the supervision of the State highway commissioner or the board of supervisors of said county and to provide for the payment of same and to provide for the retirement of any notes or bonds which may have been issued by said board pursuant to acts of the general assembly, approved March 9, 1918, and March 14, 1918, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved September 5, 1919; and to provide that no bank, person, firm or corporation in the county of Henry shall hereafter receive any interest on any loan made to the board of supervisors of the county of Henry unless such loan shall have been authorized by the general assembly.
An ACT to enact into law the rules and regulations of the dairy and food commissioner fixed and established by and with the approval of the board of agriculture and immigration, concerning food and food products and the sanitation of all places used in the manufacture, packing, storing, sale or distribution of food or food products.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1692 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1491 of the Code or ‘ee
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20-a, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 50, 53, 55, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69 and 75, of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents: ‘to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or death sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1625, 1626, 1629, 1630, i. and 1632 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1568 and 1581 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 66 of the said Code on the subject of vital statistics, section 1727 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 72 of the said Code on the subject of the practice of embalming and the transportation and disposition of dead bodies, and sections 4806, 4814 and 4818 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 190 of the said Code on the subject of coroners’ inquests.
An ACT empowering the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to appropriate money from the county funds the relief of W. E. fae:

1926
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section six hundred and seventy-four, chapter thirty-three of the Code of Virginia, relating to ventilation of school buildings.
An ACT to amend chapter 407 of the acts of assembly of 1924, commonly known as the prohibition law, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 72-a, in relation to the issuance of licenses to partnerships engaged in the retail drug business in the State.
An ACT to provide how deeds, gifts, devises and bequests to Jackson Memorial Hospital, of Lexington, Virginia, construed.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to issue bonds, or other obligations of said county, on behalf of said county for a sum not exceeding $10,000.00 for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of the prorata share of Culpeper county towards the initial cost of the District Home for the Poor for the said county and the counties of Prince William, Fairfax, Fauquier, and the city of Alexandria.
An ACT to regulate the operation of vehicles on public highways to govern and protect pedestrians while using such highways; to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT for the relief of Isaac B. Clark.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the council and government of the town of Waverly and all powers heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office to be legal and valid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1630 of the Code of Virginia relating to the practice of optometry, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to regulate the disposal of human waste or excreta within the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to provide penalties
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1927, and the 29th day of February, 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to make appropriation for its maintenance, approved March 23, 1922; to abolish the board of visitors of the Virginia school for the blind, created by an act approved March 21, 1924, and to confer upon the Virginia commission for the blind all the powers and to impose upon it all the duties of such board of visitors.
An ACT to improve a license tax on pistols and revolvers; to regulate the sale thereof and of ammunition therefor; and to provide that the proceeds of such tax shall be used for the establishment of a diseased and crippled children’s hospital.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of title 12, chapter 46, of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate.
An ACT to safeguard the distribution and sale of certain dangerous caustic or corrosive acids, alkalis, and other substances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Elkton, in Rockingham county, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1720 and 1721 of the Code of Virginia, both of which sections are in chapter 72 of the said Code, on regulating the practice of embalming, and the transportation and disposition of dead bodies.
An ACT to appropriate $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary to the State Board of Health, to maintain a pavilion at Blue Ridge Sanatorium for the year ending February 29, 1928, such pavilion to be constructed by the Masonic Relief Foundation of Virginia, Incorporated.
An ACT to establish a State farm for defective misdemeanants on the Powhatan side of the State prison farm or other place; to define the classes of defective misdemeanants to be transferred thereto; to provide for the location, construction, government thereof; to provide for the allowance and anticipation of the per diem costs of jail inmates and for the transportation of prisoners there.
An ACT concerning taxation; to segregate for the purposes of taxation, the several kinds or classes of property, so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes, may be levied; to amend and re-enact sections 2205, 2206, 2207 and 2212 of the Code of Virginia; to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 2914, 31, 33, 35, 36 and 36% of the tax bill, as heretofore amended; to repeal section 2209 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in “the State highway system,” and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh, inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State, and to extend the work of the State board of health, approved March 16, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise additional revenue for the support of the government, approved March 23, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in the “State highway system,” approved September 5, 1919; to repeal sections 2 and 7 of the tax bill, in relation to real estate and tangible personal property; to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the situs of taxation of bank stock, approved March 16, 1918; to raise revenue for the support of the government and to provide a minimum fixed appropriation of State revenue for public free school purposes and to provide penalties for violations of this act.
An ACT to authorize the State board of health to sell and convey a certain house and lot situated in the town of Smithfield, on behalf of Catawba Sanatorium; and to reinvest the proceeds from such sale.
An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Prince Edward, Cumberland, Charlotte, Buckingham and Nottoway counties to appropriate money for the construction and maintenance of a community hospital to be located at Farmville, Virginia.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 152 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 55, 61, 65, 67, 69 and 75 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Brookneal, in the county of Campbell, approved February 20, 1908, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1068 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to commitment of inebriates to State hospitals for the insane

1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide whole family protection for members of fraternal benefit societies
An ACT to make certain appropriations from the general funds of the State treasury, to the State board of health, to be used at the Medical College of Virginia for the treatment of orthopedic cases.
An ACT to provide for the relief of volunteer firemen killed or injured while engaged in fighting fires or in going to or returning i’ 343
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1929, and the 28th day of February, 1930.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of chapter 407 of the acts
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1579, 1581 and 1582 of the Code of Virginia, section 1581 as amended by acts 1924, pave 499, relating to vital statistics.
An ACT to amend chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be designated as section 1050a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of trustees for ex-service persons found
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5019, 5048 and 2091 of the Code of Virginia, the former as heretofore amended, and to repeal section 5036 of the Code of Virginia.