---
type: "Bill"
title: "Out-of-state audiologists; providing free health care to an underserved area in the Commonwealth."
description: "Volunteer audiologists. Permits out-of-stateaudiologists to volunteer to provide free health care to an underservedarea of the Commonwealth under the auspices of a publicly supportednonprofit organization that sponsors the provision of health careto populations of underserved people if they do so for a period notexceeding three consecutive days and if the nonprofit organizationverifies that the practitioner has a valid, unrestricted license inanother state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 84"
citation: "Virginia HB 84 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry G. Kilgore"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-05"
last_action: "2022-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7b78462-6303-4e48-87a1-189acddfba04"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB84"
source_hash: "334903d3823afd84bbdce62bf63035291eeac58961145b690a3b168cbfa50426"
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 84 (2022) — Out-of-state audiologists; providing free health care to an underserved area in the Commonwealth.

Volunteer audiologists. Permits out-of-stateaudiologists to volunteer to provide free health care to an underservedarea of the Commonwealth under the auspices of a publicly supportednonprofit organization that sponsors the provision of health careto populations of underserved people if they do so for a period notexceeding three consecutive days and if the nonprofit organizationverifies that the practitioner has a valid, unrestricted license inanother state.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0173** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0173)
2. **HB84ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB84ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102057D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB84)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102057D `introduction`
- **2022-01-05** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB84)
- **2022-01-20** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (HB84ER)
- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7b78462-6303-4e48-87a1-189acddfba04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).