republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-175.md

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Bill	Hospital licenses, certain; effective date.	Provides that a license issued to an acute care hospital located in Patrick County that was valid on September 1, 2017, and remained valid on December 31, 2017, despite the closure of such hospital prior to December 31, 2017, shall continue to remain valid until December 31, 2018. The bill is effective retroactively to December 31, 2017. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 175	Virginia HB 175 (2018)	bill		enacted	Charles D. Poindexter	3	14	5	2017-12-22	2018-02-16	openstates	ocd-bill/9397b83a-89c5-4c8c-b29a-729d19d118ac	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB175	47b13facb901b1093282e4a4690981262c923c4fd90a049d7db5097d75707156	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 175 (2018) — Hospital licenses, certain; effective date.

Provides that a license issued to an acute care hospital located in Patrick County that was valid on September 1, 2017, and remained valid on December 31, 2017, despite the closure of such hospital prior to December 31, 2017, shall continue to remain valid until December 31, 2018. The bill is effective retroactively to December 31, 2017. The bill contains an emergency clause and 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 (CHAP0001) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB175ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101909D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 99–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Charles D. Poindexter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-12-22 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101909D introduction
• 2017-12-22 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-01-19 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-22 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-01-23 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2018-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-13 Enrolled
• 2018-02-13 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-14 Signed by President
• 2018-02-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/18
• 2018-02-15 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2018
• 2018-02-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1 (effective 2/16/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9397b83a-89c5-4c8c-b29a-729d19d118ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).