---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assisted living facilities; regulations regarding audio-visual recording of residents, report."
description: "Assisted living facilities; audio-visual recordingof residents. Directs the Board of Social Services (the Board)to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2021, governing audio-visual recording of residents in assisted living facilities and requiresthe Department of Social Services to convene a workgroup of stakeholdersto make recommendations on such regulations. The workgroup shall report its recommendations to the Board and the General Assembly byDecember 1, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 355"
citation: "Virginia SB 355 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John A. Cosgrove, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/151eaf39-e000-412c-89e0-348720365f3d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB355"
source_hash: "0a176152e5d8347bc737f9306675e50481a824c56a5a1d2e5f029a61386f6910"
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 355 (2020) — Assisted living facilities; regulations regarding audio-visual recording of residents, report.

Assisted living facilities; audio-visual recordingof residents. Directs the Board of Social Services (the Board)to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2021, governing audio-visual recording of residents in assisted living facilities and requiresthe Department of Social Services to convene a workgroup of stakeholdersto make recommendations on such regulations. The workgroup shall report its recommendations to the Board and the General Assembly byDecember 1, 2020.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0848)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB355ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB355ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB355)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB355)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB355H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB355H1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 0-N) — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)
- Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100172D `introduction`
- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-14** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-15** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB355)
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Assigned HWI sub: Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Committee substitute printed 20108756D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB355H1)
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Committee substitute agreed to 20108756D-H1
- **2020-02-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB355H1
- **2020-02-28** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Title replaced 20108756D-H1
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB355ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **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
- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 848 (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/151eaf39-e000-412c-89e0-348720365f3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).