republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/sb-1077.md

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Bill	Assisted living facility; Board of Social Services to amend certain regulations.	Requires the State Board of Social Services to amend its regulations governing emergency preparedness and response plans and temporary emergency electrical power sources of assisted living facilities to require the following: (i) any assisted living facility that is equipped with an on-site emergency generator shall (a) include in its emergency preparedness and response plan a description of the emergency generator's capacity to provide sufficient power for certain functions and (b) test such emergency generator monthly and (ii) any assisted living facility that is not equipped with an on-site emergency generator shall (a) enter into an agreement with a vendor capable of providing the assisted living facility with an emergency generator, (b) enter into at least one agreement with a backup vendor, and (c) have its temporary emergency electrical power source connection tested at the time of installation and every two years thereafter.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	SB 1077	Virginia SB 1077 (2019)	bill	Welfare (Social Services)	enacted	Janet D. Howell	4	18	5	2018-12-13	2019-02-21	openstates	ocd-bill/51f47584-9c80-4332-8559-9197fdff6c8b	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1077	113c2152b64483867c9a243c4f1f728dd74435fe62d4019eb60154c0ad09ebbe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1077 (2019) — Assisted living facility; Board of Social Services to amend certain regulations.

Requires the State Board of Social Services to amend its regulations governing emergency preparedness and response plans and temporary emergency electrical power sources of assisted living facilities to require the following: (i) any assisted living facility that is equipped with an on-site emergency generator shall (a) include in its emergency preparedness and response plan a description of the emergency generator's capacity to provide sufficient power for certain functions and (b) test such emergency generator monthly and (ii) any assisted living facility that is not equipped with an on-site emergency generator shall (a) enter into an agreement with a vendor capable of providing the assisted living facility with an emergency generator, (b) enter into at least one agreement with a backup vendor, and (c) have its temporary emergency electrical power source connection tested at the time of installation and every two years thereafter.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1077ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19104877D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100763D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Janet D. Howell — primary (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100763D introduction
• 2018-12-13 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2019-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-29 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-01-29 Committee substitute agreed to 19104877D-S1
• 2019-01-29 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1077S1
• 2019-02-04 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2019-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2019-02-12 Enrolled
• 2019-02-12 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-13 Signed by President
• 2019-02-14 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
• 2019-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
• 2019-02-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 91 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51f47584-9c80-4332-8559-9197fdff6c8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).