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in committee · Virginia · Senate Jan 20, 2017

SB 1562: Medicaid Supplemental Rate Fund; created.

Creates the Medicaid Supplemental Rate Fund (the Fund) as a subfund of the Virginia Health Care Fund. Moneys in the Fund will be used to raise base Medicaid reimbursement rates for hospitals and health care providers in the Commonwealth. The bill requires nonprofit hospitals with over $300 million in annual revenues to pay state and local sales and use taxes, and such sales tax revenues will be deposited into the Fund. Nonprofit hospitals are currently exempt from paying state and local sales and use tax.
Siobhan Dunnavant (R)
in committee · Virginia · Senate Jan 20, 2017

SJ 220: Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage.

Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage as "only a union between one man and one woman"; (ii) prohibits the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions from creating or recognizing "a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance, or effects of marriage"; and (iii) prohibits the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions from creating or recognizing "another union, partnership, or other legal status to which is assigned the rights, benefits, obligations, qualities, or effects of marriage." The provisions of this section of the Constitution of Virginia are no longer valid as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in
Mamie Locke (D) · 3 co-sponsors
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