54_1_2517

*TITLE 54.1. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS; SUBTITLE III. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS REGULATED BY BOARDS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS; CHAPTER 25.1. HEALTH PRACTITIONERS’ INTERVENTION PROGRAM

§ 54.1-2517. Powers and duties of the Intervention Program Committee; certain meetings, decisions to be excepted from the Freedom of Information Act; confidentiality of records; immunity from liability

“Records of the Intervention Program Committee, to the extent such records identify individual practitioners in the intervention program, shall be privileged and confidential, and shall not be disclosed consistent with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.1-340 et seq.) Pursuant to subdivision A 25 of § 2.1-344, the proceedings of the Committee which in any way pertain or refer to a specific practitioner who may be, or who is actually, impaired and who may be or is, by reason of such impairment, subject to disciplinary action by the relevant board shall be excluded from the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.1-340 et seq.) and may be closed. Such proceedings shall be privileged and confidential.”

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