---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal care aides; DMAS shall establish an orientation program for certain aides."
description: "Department of Medical Assistance Services; personal care aides; orientation program. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish an orientation program for all personal care aides who provide self-directed services through the Medicaid program. The bill lays out the topics to be covered by such orientations, requires orientations to be held in-person or online at least quarterly, and specifies that personal care aides shall be invited and encouraged to attend at least one such orientation per calendar year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1102"
citation: "Virginia SB 1102 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mamie E. Locke"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-12-01"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/514e9c45-fa03-490d-88e5-1fb5dfa970fc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1102"
source_hash: "83623f1f10b77f2ef3cd831cc349e6ea420bf0487595f5b8b5f28509a55fbfd2"
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 1102 (2021) — Personal care aides; DMAS shall establish an orientation program for certain aides.

Department of Medical Assistance Services; personal care aides; orientation program. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish an orientation program for all personal care aides who provide self-directed services through the Medicaid program. The bill lays out the topics to be covered by such orientations, requires orientations to be held in-person or online at least quarterly, and specifies that personal care aides shall be invited and encouraged to attend at least one such orientation per calendar year.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0236** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0236)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103253D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1102S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101111D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1102)
4. **SB1102ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1102ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (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

- Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-01** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101111D `introduction`
- **2020-12-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-14** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB1102)
- **2021-01-25** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-26** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-26** Committee substitute printed 21103253D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB1102S1)
- **2021-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-28** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-01-28** Committee substitute agreed to 21103253D-S1
- **2021-01-28** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1102S1
- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions
- **2021-02-11** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-18** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB1102ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 236 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/514e9c45-fa03-490d-88e5-1fb5dfa970fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).