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Bill	Emergency Department Care Coordination Program; established.	Establishes the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program in the Department of Health to provide a single, statewide technology solution that connects all hospital emergency departments in the Commonwealth to facilitate real-time communication and collaboration between physicians, other health care providers, and other clinical and care management personnel for patients receiving services in hospital emergency departments, for the purpose of improving the quality of patient care services. The bill does not become effective unless and until the Commonwealth receives federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act funds to implement its provisions. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2209	Virginia HB 2209 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Health	enacted	John M. O'Bannon, III	6	33	15	2017-01-11	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/425076f6-2ade-40bc-85c8-40979fe015ae	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2209	bb287b5655b43afc88ff2d04f4ce28763e8adb8ed51c920cf308cfe091e4ec06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2209 (2017) — Emergency Department Care Coordination Program; established.

Establishes the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program in the Department of Health to provide a single, statewide technology solution that connects all hospital emergency departments in the Commonwealth to facilitate real-time communication and collaboration between physicians, other health care providers, and other clinical and care management personnel for patients receiving services in hospital emergency departments, for the purpose of improving the quality of patient care services. The bill does not become effective unless and until the Commonwealth receives federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act funds to implement its provisions. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2209ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104676D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103822D (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Printed as engrossed 17104676D-EH1 (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105593D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate insisted on substitute — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by House — 94–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate substitute rejected by House 17105593D-S1 — 0–100 (fail) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• John M. O'Bannon, III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103822D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2017-01-17 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 2017-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee substitute agreed to 17104676D-H1
• 2017-02-06 Appropriations Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB2209EH1
• 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17104676D-EH1
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-21 Reading of substitute waived
• 2017-02-21 Committee substitute agreed to 17105593D-S1
• 2017-02-21 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2209S1
• 2017-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-22 Senate substitute rejected by House 17105593D-S1 (0-Y 100-N)
• 2017-02-23 Senate requested conference committee
• 2017-02-23 House acceded to request
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by House
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2017-02-24 Amended by conference committee
• 2017-02-24 Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 600 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/425076f6-2ade-40bc-85c8-40979fe015ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).