Files
2026-07-06 17:28:36 -04:00

77 lines
3.9 KiB
Markdown
Raw Permalink Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters
This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.
---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital licenses, certain; effective date."
description: "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"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 175"
citation: "Virginia HB 175 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Poindexter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-12-22"
last_action: "2018-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9397b83a-89c5-4c8c-b29a-729d19d118ac"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB175"
source_hash: "47b13facb901b1093282e4a4690981262c923c4fd90a049d7db5097d75707156"
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 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](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0001)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB175ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB175ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101909D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB175)
## Votes
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **990** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9397b83a-89c5-4c8c-b29a-729d19d118ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).