                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TRANSFER SERVICES (§ 32.1-162.15:5)

The Board shall adopt regulations to establish standards for review and approval
of sexual assault patient transfer plans and pediatric sexual assault patient
transfer plans, which shall include provisions for the following services, when
ordered by a health care provider and with the consent of the sexual assault
patient:

1. Appropriate medical examination and such stabilizing treatment as may be
necessary prior to the transfer of a sexual assault patient from the transfer
hospital to a treatment hospital;

2. Medically and factually accurate written and oral information about emergency
contraception, the indications and contraindications and potential risks
associated with the use of emergency contraception, and the availability of
emergency contraception for sexual assault patients; and

3. Prompt transfer of the sexual assault patient to a treatment hospital or
approved pediatric health care facility, as may be appropriate, including
provisions necessary to ensure that transfer of the sexual assault patient or
pediatric sexual assault patient would not unduly burden the sexual assault
patient or pediatric sexual assault patient.

HISTORY: 2020, c. 725; 2022, c. 520; 2025, cc. 480, 491.