---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home care organizations; Department of Health to remove triennial audit requirement."
description: "Department of Health; triennial audit requirementfor hospices and home care organizations. Directs the Departmentof Health to remove the triennial audit requirement for hospicesand home care organizations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 580"
citation: "Virginia SB 580 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan T. McDougle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08fec21b-f50b-4c37-aee5-9106b5319072"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB580"
source_hash: "ef85b21b745b831e0d7add9ab9ceacb015b96d1fc0a132c47d4b5d94c9c1c8d0"
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 580 (2022) — Home care organizations; Department of Health to remove triennial audit requirement.

Department of Health; triennial audit requirementfor hospices and home care organizations. Directs the Departmentof Health to remove the triennial audit requirement for hospicesand home care organizations.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0215** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0215)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105411D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB580S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100900D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB580)
4. **SB580ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB580ER)

## Votes

- 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
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (19-Y 1-N) — **19–1** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (85-Y 14-N 1-A) — **84–14** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ryan T. McDougle — primary (person)
- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100900D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB580)
- **2022-01-26** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-27** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Incorporates SB626 (Ebbin)
- **2022-01-27** Committee substitute printed 22105411D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB580S1)
- **2022-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 22105411D-S1
- **2022-01-31** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB580S1
- **2022-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (19-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House (85-Y 14-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** VOTE: Passage (85-Y 14-N 1-A)
- **2022-03-04** Enrolled
- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB580ER)
- **2022-03-04** Signed by Speaker
- **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
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 215 (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/08fec21b-f50b-4c37-aee5-9106b5319072`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).