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| Bill | Assault and battery; health care providers; penalty. | Expands the penalty for battery against a health care provider who is engaged in the performance of his duties to apply in hospitals or in emergency rooms on the premises of any clinic or other facility rendering emergency care. Under current law, the penalties only apply to a battery against an emergency health care provider. The bill requires the Department of Health to work with stakeholder groups to develop guidelines regarding the publication of penalties for battery on a health care provider and for the training of health care professionals and providers in violence prevention programs. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | SB 973 | Virginia SB 973 (2017) |
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Virginia SB 973 (2017) — Assault and battery; health care providers; penalty.
Expands the penalty for battery against a health care provider who is engaged in the performance of his duties to apply in hospitals or in emergency rooms on the premises of any clinic or other facility rendering emergency care. Under current law, the penalties only apply to a battery against an emergency health care provider. The bill requires the Department of Health to work with stakeholder groups to develop guidelines regarding the publication of penalties for battery on a health care provider and for the training of health care professionals and providers in violence prevention programs. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB973ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101152D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate — 28–12 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 10–4 (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. — primary (person)
- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101152D
introduction - 2017-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-01-30 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2017-02-03 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-13 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-13 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
passage - 2017-02-14 Enrolled
- 2017-02-14 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-15 Signed by President
- 2017-02-15 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
- 2017-02-15 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
- 2017-02-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 56 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0fc6718-6b25-43c7-b1ce-4029b2ca1142. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).