VA SB22

Requires the Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing to mandate bias reduction training as part of continuing education requirements for license renewal, not more often than every two years

First required training must address how unconscious and conscious racial bias affects care during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the postpartum period

Subsequent training must cover conditions often racialized in clinical practice, including sickle cell disease, and address how race-based assumptions lead to delayed diagnosis and disparate health outcomes

Boards must designate organizations to facilitate evidence-based curricula and may require up to two hours of continuing education in specific subject areas per biennial renewal

Completion data must be reported to the Department of Health and Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative, which will evaluate training effectiveness for providers of fertility, prenatal, birth, and postpartum care