---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals; protocols for patients receiving rehabilitation services."
description: "Rehabilitation hospitals; arrangements for follow-upcare. Requires every hospital that provides rehabilitation servicesto make arrangements for all necessary follow-up care for a patientprior to discharging such patient, including scheduling initial appointmentsfor any follow-up care and providing the patient with the namesand contact information for each provider and information regardingeach scheduled appointments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 235"
citation: "Virginia HB 235 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e3cf9b0-d8b0-4591-8768-10b1fc680f95"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB235"
source_hash: "ce3e96e6ee680ae43050ef4b4ae87af8c40f1caffc0e96e5eaea299c9544850b"
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 235 (2022) — Hospitals; protocols for patients receiving rehabilitation services.

Rehabilitation hospitals; arrangements for follow-upcare. Requires every hospital that provides rehabilitation servicesto make arrangements for all necessary follow-up care for a patientprior to discharging such patient, including scheduling initial appointmentsfor any follow-up care and providing the patient with the namesand contact information for each provider and information regardingeach scheduled appointments.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0112** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0112)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105178D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB235H1)
3. **HB235ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB235ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102339D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB235)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102339D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB235)
- **2022-02-01** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-01** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-01** Committee substitute printed 22105178D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 22105178D-H1
- **2022-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB235H1
- **2022-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB235H1)
- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Assigned Education sub: Health `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 (HB235ER)
- **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
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (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/2e3cf9b0-d8b0-4591-8768-10b1fc680f95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).