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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medically underserved areas; transporting patients to 24-hour urgent care facilities."
+description: "Medically underserved areas; emergency medicalservices; medical care facilities. Provides that emergency medicalservices vehicles may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care medicalfacilities or other appropriate medical facilities when deemed appropriateby emergency medical services personnel or a physician. The billrequires the Board of Health to develop regulations for when emergencymedical services agencies in medically underserved areas as defined by the Board may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care facilitiesor appropriate medical care facilities other than hospitals. Theregulations shall include provisions for what constitutes a medicallyunderserved area, cases appropriate for transferring a patient toa medical facility other than a hospital, and other information deemedrelevant by the Board."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 301"
+citation: "Virginia SB 301 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-05"
+last_action: "2020-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d8ff93d-b308-4b3d-82f5-75dd9ae6b462"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB301"
+source_hash: "3c08d4a02491c5311ecf895ebafe5e25eddf0b6a61fb62e867e590da5ae6fa4f"
+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 SB 301 (2020) — Medically underserved areas; transporting patients to 24-hour urgent care facilities.
+
+Medically underserved areas; emergency medicalservices; medical care facilities. Provides that emergency medicalservices vehicles may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care medicalfacilities or other appropriate medical facilities when deemed appropriateby emergency medical services personnel or a physician. The billrequires the Board of Health to develop regulations for when emergencymedical services agencies in medically underserved areas as defined by the Board may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care facilitiesor appropriate medical care facilities other than hospitals. Theregulations shall include provisions for what constitutes a medicallyunderserved area, cases appropriate for transferring a patient toa medical facility other than a hospital, and other information deemedrelevant by the Board.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0930)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0930)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB301ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB301ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB301)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB301)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB301S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB301S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100781D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-09** Impact statement from DPB (SB301)
+- **2020-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-23** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-23** Committee substitute printed 20106436D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2020-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB301S1)
+- **2020-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2020-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 20106436D-S1
+- **2020-01-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB301S1
+- **2020-01-28** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-03** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** Assigned HWI sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-28** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB301ER)
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-07** 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
+- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 930 (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/6d8ff93d-b308-4b3d-82f5-75dd9ae6b462`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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