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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71073</law_id><section_number>54.1-2994</section_number><catch_line>Advance Health Care Planning Registry</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-372</reference><reference>54.1-2983</reference><reference>54.1-2985</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="9">Advance Health Care Directive Registry</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Department of Health shall make available a secure online central registry for advance health care planning.</p></section></text><history>2008, cc. 301, 696; 2024, cc. 231, 274.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
