---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care providers; health records of minors, available via secure website."
description: "Health care providers; health records of minors; available via secure website. Provides that every hospital and health care provider that makes patients' health records available to such patients through a secure website shall make all health records of a patient who is a minor available to such patient's parent through such secure website unless the hospital or health care provider cannot make such health record available in a manner that prevents disclosure of information, the disclosure of which has been denied by a health care provider or for which required consent has not been provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 916"
citation: "Virginia HB 916 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e67efcc6-5150-4c07-8bb5-426b33472723"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB916"
source_hash: "06f7c8b197f2d206c4767d2bb92f6e890d056e67932ff2b08e0de87e04ccde4a"
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 916 (2022) — Health care providers; health records of minors, available via secure website.

Health care providers; health records of minors; available via secure website. Provides that every hospital and health care provider that makes patients' health records available to such patients through a secure website shall make all health records of a patient who is a minor available to such patient's parent through such secure website unless the hospital or health care provider cannot make such health record available in a manner that prevents disclosure of information, the disclosure of which has been denied by a health care provider or for which required consent has not been provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0218** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0218)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105695D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB916H1)
3. **HB916ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB916ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100910D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB916)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N) — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (19-Y 3-N) — **19–3** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N) — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100910D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB916)
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-10** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Committee substitute printed 22105695D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Committee substitute agreed to 22105695D-H1
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB916H1
- **2022-02-15** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N)
- **2022-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB916H1)
- **2022-02-23** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Passed by for the day
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB916ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 218 (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/e67efcc6-5150-4c07-8bb5-426b33472723`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).