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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals sunset provision."
+description: "Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Repeals the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1408"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1408 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-01-13"
+last_action: "2021-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b64b9f2e-f346-4e54-892d-c46065e18024"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1408"
+source_hash: "5df628d7e17638332b0389851364f90fdb0fda54c53a0d12833e6aece1a27497"
+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 1408 (2021) — Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals sunset provision.
+
+Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Repeals the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0315** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0315)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102395D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1408)
+3. **SB1408ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1408ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- George L. Barker — primary (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102395D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB1408)
+- **2021-01-22** Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-05** Placed on Calendar
+- **2021-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-05** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules
+- **2021-02-19** Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-24** Passed by temporarily
+- **2021-02-24** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-24** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB1408ER)
+- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
+- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 315 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b64b9f2e-f346-4e54-892d-c46065e18024`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+