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legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-1198.md

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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Stroke centers, certified; designation of hospitals."
+description: "Expands the list of certified stroke center designations for hospitals included in regional stroke triage plans to include comprehensive stroke centers, primary stroke centers with supplementary levels of stroke care distinction, and acute stroke-ready hospitals and adds the American Heart Association to the list of entities authorized to provide certification of such hospitals. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1198"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1198 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["T. Scott Garrett"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-01-10"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/171d8327-5dd2-4a0b-a4ce-d998a3087939"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1198"
+source_hash: "5dd436c4aee49a828654332fd357a77911561ef62e50d27a4b182529c0056b8a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1198 (2018) — Stroke centers, certified; designation of hospitals.
+
+Expands the list of certified stroke center designations for hospitals included in regional stroke triage plans to include comprehensive stroke centers, primary stroke centers with supplementary levels of stroke care distinction, and acute stroke-ready hospitals and adds the American Heart Association to the list of entities authorized to provide certification of such hospitals. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1198ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1198ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102933D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1198)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- T. Scott Garrett — primary (person)
+- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102933D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 103 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/171d8327-5dd2-4a0b-a4ce-d998a3087939`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+