---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certificate of public need; task force to develop recommendation for expedited application & review."
description: "Certificate of public need; expedited application and review; medical deserts. Instructs the State Health Commissioner to direct the State Health Services Plan Task Force to develop recommendations for establishing an expedited application and review process for projects requiring a certificate of public need in medical deserts. This bill is identical to SB 1203."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2119"
citation: "Virginia HB 2119 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wendell S. Walker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/017dde15-08ab-4b03-b76e-1bbe6b8de8a1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2119"
source_hash: "f172c0d54c611619f128b8d4c31982e8284f923116eef3666302ac24cf3174f1"
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 2119 (2025) — Certificate of public need; task force to develop recommendation for expedited application & review.

Certificate of public need; expedited application and review; medical deserts. Instructs the State Health Commissioner to direct the State Health Services Plan Task Force to develop recommendations for establishing an expedited application and review process for projects requiring a certificate of public need in medical deserts. This bill is identical to SB 1203.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015185.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074103.PDF)
3. **HHS Sub: Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1030224.PDF)
4. **Health and Human Services Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1034865.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061783.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wendell S. Walker — primary (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103367D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2119)
- **2025-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25105574D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2119)
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2119ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2119)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 397 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/017dde15-08ab-4b03-b76e-1bbe6b8de8a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).