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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77307</law_id><section_number>54.1-2981</section_number><catch_line>Short title</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-369</reference><reference>32.1-127.1:03</reference><reference>32.1-291.21</reference><reference>32.1-325</reference><reference>37.2-1101</reference><reference>37.2-1108</reference><reference>37.2-804.2</reference><reference>37.2-805.1</reference><reference>37.2-837</reference><reference>37.2-838</reference><reference>53.1-133.04</reference><reference>54.1-2995</reference><reference>63.2-501</reference><reference>64.2-2009</reference><reference>64.2-2019</reference><reference>8.01-622.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="8">Health Care Decisions Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The provisions of this article shall be known and may be cited as the &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Health Care</span> Decisions Act.&#x201D;</p></section></text><history>1983, c. 532, &#xA7; 54-325.8:1; 1988, c. 765; 1992, cc. 748, 772.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
