Healthcare

1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and ney 165
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3464 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the retirement of judges of the supreme court of appeals.
An ACT defining and regulating co-operative non-profit life benefit corporations with representative form of government, providing the term:
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of directors of the Eastern State Hospital to sell and convey the “Bright lot,’ in the city of Williamsburg, lying in the angle of Francis street and England street, and the “Travis lot,” lying in the said city, in the angle of Henry street and Francis street.
An ACT to declare certain specified grounds in Mobjack bay in Gloucester county a part of the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals, subject to any existing rights of any lessees of said ground.
An ACT to authorize and empower the State board of health to convey to the county school board of Roanoke county, a lot of land in Catawba valley, in the county of Roanoke, owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to make use of the money received therefor; and, to authorize and empower the county school board of Roanoke county to sell a school building to the State board of health, and to make use of the money received therefor.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1646 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to licenses to practice dentistry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1053 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of committees, their bonds, and when estate may be committed to a sheriff or sergeant.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1498 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to local health officers.
An ACT to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the school laws of Virginia and certain laws relating to the State board of education, its powers and duties; to repeal certain Code sections and substitute in their place such revised, consolidated and amended Code sections and acts of the general assembly passed since the year 1916, as relate or pertain to the public schools; to number such revised, consolidated and amended statutes as sections 611 to section 718 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, all of which said sections relate or pertain to the State board of education, its powers and duties, the superintendent of public instruction, division superintendents, the school system in Virginia; the laws relative to the public school system in the counties in all its phases and relating to every matter that may affect, or in any manner pertain to the public schools in the counties, including the abolition of all school boards and the transfer of their powers and duties after January 1, 1932, to the several boards of supervisors; to provide for the levying, collecting and expenditure of school taxes or appropriations made in lieu thereof; to abolish school districts for all purposes save for purposes of representation for capital expenditures, and the payment of present existing debts; to make all the provisions of such sections applicable to city schools, so far as possible; to repeal sections 586, 594 and 595 of the Code of Virginia and sections 611 to 773 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, and any and all acts amendatory of such sections, all of which Code sections relate to the public schools, or matters pertaining thereto; to repeal chapter 412 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 381 of the acts of 1922, both of which relate to the compulsory attendance of children between certain ages upon the public schools of Virginia; to repeal chapter 233 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 327 of the acts of 1920, both of which relate to public health nursing and medical and health inspection of school children; to repeal chapter 32 of the acts of 1918, relating to the exemption of school and college pupils, and the vehicles in which they are traveling, from the payment of tolls on any roads located in this State; to repeal chapter 295 of the acts of 1918, permitting the teaching of high school subjects in primary schools in certain cases; to repeal chapter 371 of the acts of 1918, providing for deposit and disbursement of donations for public free school purposes; to repeal chapter 352 of the acts of 1918, authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans; to repeal chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, relating to local school taxes, except so much thereof as repeals sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of 1919, and all amendments to such act which are found in chapter 29 of the acts of 1923 and chapter 175 of the acts of 1924; to repeal chapter 106 of the acts of 1924, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, by adding thereto section la, relating to local school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 143 of the acts of 1922, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the State; to repeal chapter 423 of the acts of 1922, creating county school boards, providing for their powers and duties, abolishing district boards, etc.; to repeal chapter 148 of the acts of 1922, providing for the establishment of recreation centers and for the teaching of home-crafts; to repeal chapter 46 of the acts of 1926, relating to the borrowing of money by school boards, authorizing short time loans, prohibiting certain other loans and prohibiting school boards from expending or contracting to expend, in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for that year, unless approved by the boards of supervisors or the councils, etc.; to repeal chapter 493 of the acts of 1926, relating to school taxes; to repeal chapter 529 of the acts of 1926, prohibiting the State board of education from refusing to accredit any school, or any diploma or certificate issued by such school, for the sole reason that such school is not being conducted in a building meeting the requirements of said board; to repeal chapter 564 of the acts of 1926, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the Commonwealth; to repeal chapter 62 of the acts of 1926, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, in relation to local school levies, and relating especially to school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 189 of the acts of 1926, authorizing the issuance of bonds by county school boards for the purpose of refunding school bonds issued on behalf of the school districts; to repeal sections 1529 and 1530 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal sections 798 and 849 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal all Code sections, acts and parts of acts, which are, or may be, in conflict with the provisions of the statutes embraced in the contents of this bill.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Roanoke county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the following sections of the Code of Virginia: 1612; 1613; 1614; 1615, as amended; 1616, as amended; 1617; 1618; 1619; 1621; 1622; 1623; 1639; relating to the regulation of the practice of medicine; and to repeal section 1620.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1074 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commitment of inebriates, opium eaters, and persons addicted to other drug habits, by a justice of the peace; the appointments of committees for such persons and the bonds to be given by such committees.
An ACT to repeal chapter 212 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, entitled an act to define and regulate the practice of poropathy and manipulative surgery, to provide license of practitioners thereof, and to provide for a penalty for the violation of this act, and for other purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 and section 47 of an act entitled, an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke, approved March 22, 1924, subsection 10 of section two of which as amended, and subsection 11 of section two of which, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1731 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the disposition of certain dead bodies.
An ACT to authorize the chairman of the special board of directors of the Western State Hospital to convey to the city of Staunton certain lands for street purposes.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia.

1930
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1903-a providing for the disposition and care of expectant mothers who are prisoners in any penal institution in this State and for the care of such children born of such prisoners.
An ACT to establish an industrial farm for women; to provide for the removal of female prisoners from the Virginia penitentiary thereto; to provide for the removal of female prisoners from the county, town and city jails thereto; to provide for the location, construction, equipment and government thereof; to provide for the use of certain funds therefor; to authorize the payment of the jail per diem thereto; to provide for the commitment thereto of female delinquents by justices, courts and the transfer thereto from certain institutions and agencies as provided by law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 127 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to election of district officers.
An ACT to appropriate a sum of money for the education of Gale McGuire Turner, who lost his left hand, caused by an explosion of a detonator, placed by some member of Battery H, 246 Coast Artillery Corps, Virginia National Guard, near the room of said battery, in the town of Christiansburg, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 907, 908, 909, 910, 911, 912, 914, 915, 916, 917, 918, 919 and 920 of the Code of Virginia and to add to said Code a new section to be numbered 920-a, all of which sections relate to live stock, animals and poultry, the establishment of quarantines and the eradication of disease among such animals and poultry, and to prohibit persons other than duly licensed veterinarians and those employed by the State board of agriculture and immigration, or by the Federal bureau of animal industry, from possessing or administering serum containing the spores of anthrax and to prescribe penalties therefor.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the period of four months from the first day of March to the thirtieth day of June, inclusive 1930, and for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June 1931, and the thirtieth day of June, 1932, including the appropriation of fund which may be derived from certificates of indebtedness authorized by this act to be issued by certain State educational institutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3281 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to fish and oysters.
An ACT to require the placing of labels showing date of shipment, quantity, and payment of tax on all containers in which scallops are shipped; to fix the price of such labels; to direct the application of the funds derived from sale of such labels; and prescribing penalties.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Bluefield, Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3282 and 3287 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to oysters and clams, so as to include crab-meat and scallops within the provisions of said sections.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto nine new sections, numbered 121l-a, 1211-b, 1211-c, 1211-d, 121l-e, 1211-f, 1211-g, 1211-h, and 1211-i, in relation to the production and handling of milk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 690 of chapter 471 of the acts of assembly of 1928, which chapter is a general revision, amendment and codification of the school laws, the section to be amended being in relation to vaccination of pupils.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Burkeville, Nottoway county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4909 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relative to committal, for observation of persons charged with crime whose mental condition is questioned.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto five new sections, to be numbered 1698-a, 1698-b, 1698-c, 1698-d and 1698-e, relating to the sale of hypnotic drugs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1673, 1680, 1684 and 1686 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, all of which sections relate to the practice of pharmacy.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 1514 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the establishment of local sanatoria for sufferers from tuberculosis, and to appropriate funds from the State treasury therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of chapter 214 of the acts of assembly of 1926, entitled 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, approved March 19, 1926, and to enlarge the same to include any other misdemeanants, and felons.
An ACT to authorize the State health commissioner to convey, on behalf of the State, to the Appalachian Electric Power Company, a certain electric transmission line owned by the State, through which electric current is furnished the Catawba Sanatorium.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section (c) section 21, chapter 33, acts of assembly, 1927, entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government, making the commissioner of public welfare, ex-officio, a member of certain boards and agencies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1515 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of Holt Page.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 140 of the acts of assembly of 1906, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county’
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 161, acts of assembly, 1928, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2, of chapter 180, of the acts of general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1918, as amended, relating to the establishment and maintenance of a home for persons unable to care for themselves, to be known as district homes for the poor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1640, 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653 and 1654 of the Code of Virginia, relating to and regulating the practice of dentistry.
An ACT to authorize certain counties and/or cities, in this State, to establish a mosquito control district, or districts; to provide for a governing body or commission, its appointment and duties: for the creation, operation, and management of such district, or districts; and to provide for the issuance of bonds, and a sinking fund, and for financing the same, and to authorize the levy of a tax for carrying on the work of said commission and to appropriate funds therefor; and to repeal chapter 419 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of 1928, which was issued March 23, 1928, relating to the establishment of mosquito control districts.
AN ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Colonial Heights, Chesterfield county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1638 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia chartering the city of Buena Vista
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 39, of the Virginia workmen's compensation act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1077 of the Code of Virginia as amended, in relation to State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 473, of the acts of assembly of 1924, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke,” as last amended by chapter 333 of the acts of assembly of 1928
AN ACT to authorize the State highway commission to include in the State highway system certain streets and roads in incorporated towns and cities of thirty-five hundred (3,500) inhabitants or less.

1932
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1614 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1614-a, regulating the practice of medicine.


An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1045 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, relating to insane and feeble-minded persons.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gordonsville, 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.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of directors of the Central State Hospital to grant an easement over a strip of land extending through the Central State Hospital property from the northwestern right of way line of the Seaboard ‘Air Line Railway to the United States highway, route number 1.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 74 of the game, inland fish and dog Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for livestock and poultry and treatment of rabies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1486 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1489 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to create a lien in favor of hospitals for its reasonable charges for caring for persons injured in accidents, the giving of notice of such lien, the effect thereof and to provide for the adjudication of the claims made by hospitals against persons injured in accidents.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by enacting, and incorporating therein, a new section to be designated as section 1080-a, providing for the appointment of guardians, or committees, for persons mentally and physically incapacitated, but not feeble minded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 20 and 31 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Bluefield, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Lexington, Rockbridge county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to provide the method of amending the charters of corporations chartered for the purpose of and engaged in conducting hospitals, the stock of which is nondividend paying, when the corporation is unable to convene a meeting of its stockholders.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1698-a, 1698-b, 1698-c, 1698-d and 1698-e of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale of hypnotic drugs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1050, 1051, 1052 and 1053 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and section 1050-a of the Code of Virginia, all of said sections relating to appointment of committees and trustees for certain persons.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Williamsburg, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Big Stone Gap, Wise county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT for the relief of King’s Daughters’ Hospital, at Staunton,
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1933, and the thirtieth day of June, 1934.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.

1933es
An ACT to authorize the board of directors of Eastern State Hospital, at Williamsburg, to convey a certain portion of the real estate belonging to the said hospital, to the city of Williamsburg as a site for a unified sewerage disposal plant.

1934
An ACT to provide for the supervision, regulation and control of the production, processing, transportation, storage, distribution, and sale of milk and cream; to create a Milk Commission and local milk boards and to define and provide for the functions, duties and powers thereof; to provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, and expenses of such commission and boards and the members, officers, agents and employees thereof; to provide for licensing processors, bottlers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers of milk and cream, or either; to provide for the raising of funds for the administration of this act and to provide for the disposition of revenue collected hereunder and to impose penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1935, and the thirtieth day of June, 1936.
An ACT to identify and provide for the maintenance, operation, control and management of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium; to provide how patients may be received therein; to provide for the distribution and use of revenues derived therefrom and to appropriate the same; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to permit the trial together of cases for personal injury of infants, with claims for the expenses of curing or attempting to cure infants from such injury.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Hopewell and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Hopewell.
An ACT to define the terms “milk,” “cream” and “pasteurized milk”; to fix and define the grades thereof; to prohibit the sale or dispensing of milk or cream not of certain standards; to regulate the production and handling of milk and cream; to provide for issuing permits and for the revocation of such permits; to provide penalties for violations; and to repeal section 1211-A to 1211-I, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT for the relief of William A. Tuck, guardian of Helen Mitchell Morgan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 64 of chapter 342, Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as last amended by an act approved February 27, 1930.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4956 of the Code of Virginia, relating to allowance to jail physicians, and furnishing medicine and clothing for persons in jail, so as to authorize counties to supplement, to a certain extent, the allowance for jail physicians.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1224, 1225 and 1227 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended concerning tuberculosis and Bang’s disease among cattle.
An ACT to provide for the relief of Miss Ruby L. Garst.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections sixteen hundred and twenty-four, sixteen hundred and twenty-six, sixteen hundred and twenty-seven, sixteen hundred and thirty-five and sixteen hundred and thirty-seven of the Code of Virginia 1919, some of which have been heretofore amended, all relating to optometry.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Lawrenceville, 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.
An ACT to regulate and control the production, preparation, manufacture, possession, transportation, sale, disposition and use of coca leaves, cocaine, opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture and preparation thereof or of either, and substances not chemically distinguishable from such drugs or either of them; to provide for the issuance, suspension and revocation of licenses to produce, prepare, manufacture, sell, dispense and otherwise handle such drugs; to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith: and to provide that this act may be designated and cited as the "Uniform Narcotic Drug Act."
An ACT to prevent the pollution of certain waters in the county of Mathews, and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Quantico in the county of Prince William.
An ACT for the relief of Norella J. Wood, Mary Norella Wood, James Newton Wood and John Edwin Wood.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4696 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of opium, marihuana, loco weed, and other sedative, narcotic and hypnotic drugs, chemicals and substances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 38 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, approved March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended, defining the powers of the council of said city and relating to when certain ordinances shall be published and take effect.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Richlands, Tazewell county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 203 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of vendors of patent, proprietary or domestic medicines, salves, liniments or compounds of like kind, spices, extracts, toilet articles and other articles of like kind.

1936
An ACT for the relief of the Jefferson Hospital, Incorporated,
An ACT to prohibit the distribution of drugs and medicines by means of medicine shows, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1018 of the Code of Virginia, relating to commitment papers of the insane, and providing for the forms of commitment of insane, feeble-minded, epileptic and inebriate persons.