---
type: "Bill"
title: "Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset."
description: "Extends the expiration of the Joint Commission on Health Care from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1736"
citation: "Virginia HB 1736 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "General Assembly", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-07"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a94f267-cf15-49d8-b3da-f09bbcdfe16c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1736"
source_hash: "4b93b60114e3fc7e0ead42bbd5ba1dee9fd1f765d3acdbd0302cfecf257ca417"
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 1736 (2017) — Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset.

Extends the expiration of the Joint Commission on Health Care from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0173)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0173)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1736ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1736ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101727D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1736)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **94–3** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rules — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rules — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101727D `introduction`
- **2017-01-07** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a94f267-cf15-49d8-b3da-f09bbcdfe16c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).