---
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).