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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "DBHDS; review of regulations that impact providers."
+description: "DBHDS; review of regulations that impact providers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2255"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2255 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hodges"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05fb8ecc-fa22-4c9f-b297-60358afb7da6"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2255"
+source_hash: "3a8a5f3d7f32c30f54855b8b14e6dd0a364bea03636a0b9a7ed77797a2838fad"
+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 2255 (2023) — DBHDS; review of regulations that impact providers.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0491** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0491)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 23105542D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2255H1)
+3. **HB2255ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2255ER)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104085D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2255)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 4-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hodges — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104085D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-13** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-19** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 4-N)
+- **2023-01-26** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) `substitution`
+- **2023-01-31** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-31** Committee substitute printed 23105542D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (HB2255H1)
+- **2023-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 23105542D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2255H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-06** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-17** Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-21** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2255ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB2255ER)
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 491 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05fb8ecc-fa22-4c9f-b297-60358afb7da6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+