---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home care organizations; changes the license renewal requirement."
description: "Department of Health; home care organizations; license renewal. Changes the license renewal requirement for home care organizations from an annual renewal to a triennial renewal. The bill prohibits the Department of Health, upon renewal of a home care organization license, from requiring home care organizations to submit financial documents other than those required for initial licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 93"
citation: "Virginia HB 93 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a380fee7-b58c-49a3-ba31-e1e0e8c42b87"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB93"
source_hash: "7ccb1237cf771e2068e6e960d6f935c941377f8baa5be692a7d896fed992f085"
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 93 (2022) — Home care organizations; changes the license renewal requirement.

Department of Health; home care organizations; license renewal. Changes the license renewal requirement for home care organizations from an annual renewal to a triennial renewal. The bill prohibits the Department of Health, upon renewal of a home care organization license, from requiring home care organizations to submit financial documents other than those required for initial licensure.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0172** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0172)
2. **HB93ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB93ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100337D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB93)
4. **Printed as engrossed 22100337D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB93E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (86-Y 13-N) — **85–13** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (17-Y 3-N) — **17–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100337D `introduction`
- **2022-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB93)
- **2022-01-27** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (17-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-27** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-02** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-07** Engrossed by House as amended HB93E
- **2022-02-07** Printed as engrossed 22100337D-E
- **2022-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB93E)
- **2022-02-08** Read third time and passed House (86-Y 13-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-08** VOTE: Passage (86-Y 13-N)
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-09** 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 (HB93ER)
- **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 172 (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/a380fee7-b58c-49a3-ba31-e1e0e8c42b87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).