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The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.The department operates Virginia's public mental health, intellectual disability, and substance abuse services system through a system of forty locally and regionally run community services boards (CSBs) and twelve state-operated facilities [1] which serve children ...
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The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission is an independent state agency established by the Virginia General Assembly pursuant to authority in the Constitution of Virginia. The General Assembly, through the legislative process, imparts responsibilities upon the Commission.
[48] [49] In 2011, state legislatures across the United States introduced over 1100 provisions related to women's health and reproductive rights, [48] [51] and in the first quarter of 2012 an additional 944 provisions were introduced in state legislatures, half of which would restrict access to abortion. Legislation has focused on mandatory ...
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
The Repeal Act (HB 2491) was a 2019 bill proposed in Virginia by Delegate Kathy Tran that would have repealed some of the state's restrictions on abortion.The bill would have reduced the number of physicians required to approve a third-term abortion (from three to one), and lowered the threshold for that approval to the requirement that there be a medical reason for the abortion, from the ...
Virginia's 48th House of Delegates district elects one of 100 seats in the lower house of the state's bicameral legislature, the General Assembly. District 48 represents parts of Henry and Pittsylvania counties, and the entirety of the City of Martinsville. The seat is currently held by Republican Eric Phillips. [1]
The Virginia State Colony for the Epileptics and Feeble Minded was a state run institution for those considered to be “Feeble minded” or those with severe mental impairment. The colony opened in 1910 near Lynchburg, Virginia , in Madison Heights with the goal of isolating those with mental disabilities and other qualities deemed unfit for ...