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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Home hospice programs; disposal of drugs."
+description: "Requires every hospice to develop policies and procedures for the disposal of drugs dispensed as part of the hospice plan of care for a patient, which shall include requirements that such disposal be (i) performed in a manner that complies with all state and federal requirements for the safe disposal of drugs by a licensed nurse, physician assistant, or physician who is employed by or has entered into a contract with the hospice program; (ii) witnessed by a member of the patient's family or a second employee of the hospice program who is licensed by a health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions; and (iii) documented in the patient's medical record."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 501"
+citation: "Virginia HB 501 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health", "Narcotics and Drugs", "Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-01-08"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee8bb027-3f47-4945-b2c1-19d2ea845719"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB501"
+source_hash: "67aa43c90ee6bf8642c9771e76e54237cdcf5e6aba785808f6c23f472798f3fe"
+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 501 (2018) — Home hospice programs; disposal of drugs.
+
+Requires every hospice to develop policies and procedures for the disposal of drugs dispensed as part of the hospice plan of care for a patient, which shall include requirements that such disposal be (i) performed in a manner that complies with all state and federal requirements for the safe disposal of drugs by a licensed nurse, physician assistant, or physician who is employed by or has entered into a contract with the hospice program; (ii) witnessed by a member of the patient's family or a second employee of the hospice program who is licensed by a health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions; and (iii) documented in the patient's medical record.
+
+## 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 (HB501ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB501ER)
+2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105770D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB501H1)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102626D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB501)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102626D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-26** Committee substitute agreed to 18105770D-H1
+- **2018-01-26** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB501H1
+- **2018-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-30** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `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 95 (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/ee8bb027-3f47-4945-b2c1-19d2ea845719`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+