VA HB476

Requires continuing care facility governing boards or their designated representatives (excluding executive directors or employees) to hold quarterly meetings with resident representatives to discuss facility finances, policies, programs, and services

Mandates that at least two of these quarterly meetings per year be open to all facility residents, with residents entitled to seven days' notice of each meeting

Requires a non-employee board member and the provider's chief executive officer to participate in person in at least two meetings annually, with at least one being open to all residents

Allows independent living residents or the resident council at Virginia-incorporated facilities to request a resident representative participate in board meetings in a non-voting, advisory capacity

Permits the governing board to convene in executive session without the resident representative present, consistent with existing Virginia law on executive sessions