---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital emergency departments; required security and training, regulations."
description: "Hospital emergency departments; required security and training, regulations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 827"
citation: "Virginia SB 827 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Favola"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-21"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bd3b746-f008-4efc-92b6-ec98fa3ac59c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB827"
source_hash: "6fb3de85bacb670b82e95c1098dadbdf12397cf96891707ae62c5eee6389d97a"
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 827 (2023) — Hospital emergency departments; required security and training, regulations.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0417** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0417)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105296D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB827S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101960D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB827)
4. **SB827ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB827ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Favola — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101960D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-21** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB827)
- **2023-01-27** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-02** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Committee substitute printed 23105296D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB827S1)
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 23105296D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB827S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-17** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-17** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-22** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB827ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB827ER)
- **2023-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 417 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bd3b746-f008-4efc-92b6-ec98fa3ac59c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).