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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing."
+description: "Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing. Provides that, in cases in which any law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, the next of kin of the deceased person shall be deemed to have consented to testing of the decedent's blood for infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses and release of such test results to the person who was exposed. Under current law, whenever a law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, consent for testing and release of the results must be obtained from the next of kin of the deceased person before testing may be initiated."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 664"
+citation: "Virginia HB 664 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2020-01-06"
+last_action: "2020-03-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f8c7a09-98c6-4cb7-addf-050a64281d91"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB664"
+source_hash: "9c06e8967331fd865d2a065a0ab3645efc1e4b740de3584608ea2fb4a28fd564"
+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 664 (2020) — Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing.
+
+Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing. Provides that, in cases in which any law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, the next of kin of the deceased person shall be deemed to have consented to testing of the decedent's blood for infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses and release of such test results to the person who was exposed. Under current law, whenever a law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, consent for testing and release of the results must be obtained from the next of kin of the deceased person before testing may be initiated.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0502)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB664ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB664)
+3. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB664ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB664ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Rereferred from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102403D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-31** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-05** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-07** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-10** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-10** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-02-11** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Rereferred from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-17** Rereferred to Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-21** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 502 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f8c7a09-98c6-4cb7-addf-050a64281d91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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