---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recovery residences; certification by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services."
description: "Recovery residences; certification by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2045"
citation: "Virginia HB 2045 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris L. Hurst"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1e80f56-bf4c-47a1-8a45-5a051b0bb70a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2045"
source_hash: "233f9d2b5f9cd8db76cd85574afb75cfa3311a2ecc75b31adfc54951b26ca7db"
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 2045 (2019) — Recovery residences; certification by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0220)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2045)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2045ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2045ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105077D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2045H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101781D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2045)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris L. Hurst — primary (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101781D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Committee substitute agreed to 19105077D-H1
- **2019-01-25** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2045H1
- **2019-01-28** Passed by for the day
- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 220 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1e80f56-bf4c-47a1-8a45-5a051b0bb70a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).