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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 140: Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; created, penalty, report.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 140 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 5, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; created, penalty, report. Primary sponsor: Jennifer Carroll Foy (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (November 19, 2024): Left in Finance and Appropriations.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team established; penalty; report. Establishes the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team to develop and implement procedures to ensure that fetal and infant deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a systematic way. The bill requires the Team to compile triennial statistical data regarding fetal and infant deaths and to make such data available to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Department of Health. The bill provides that information and records obtained or created by the Team and portions of meetings of the Team at which individual fetal and infant deaths are discussed shall be confidential.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jennifer Carroll FoyPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate33

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Finance and Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  3. Impact statement from DPB (SB140S1)
  4. Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
  5. Committee substitute printed 24106653D-S1
  6. Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
  7. Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  8. Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health
  9. Referred to Committee on Education and Health
  10. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101503D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source