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Bill	Palliative care information and resources.	Requires the Department of Health to make information about and resources on palliative care available to the public, health care providers, and health care facilities on its website. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 974	Virginia SB 974 (2017)	bill	Computer Services and Uses Health	enacted	L. Louise Lucas	4	18	6	2017-01-03	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/4c7d0a46-1b62-4a40-82cd-791c4b201715	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB974	1028aecdd8ea78affa28141c1ad6eb1ec77515125d1dc5e153ada322512ed9f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 974 (2017) — Palliative care information and resources.

Requires the Department of Health to make information about and resources on palliative care available to the public, health care providers, and health care facilities on its website. 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 (CHAP0471) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 17105338D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB974ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101757D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• House substitute agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101757D introduction
• 2017-01-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-30 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-30 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Committee substitute agreed to 17105338D-H1
• 2017-02-13 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB974H1
• 2017-02-13 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-02-15 Title replaced 17105338D-H1
• 2017-02-20 Enrolled
• 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 471 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c7d0a46-1b62-4a40-82cd-791c4b201715. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).