Fabio
100 lines
6.7 KiB
Markdown
100 lines
6.7 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Health care providers, certain; program to address career fatigue and wellness, civil immunity."
|
||
description: "Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or make recommendations related to health care services to include health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to address issues related to career fatigue and wellness in health care professionals licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine or licensed as a physician assistant. The bill also clarifies that, absent evidence indicating a reasonable probability that a health care professional who is a participant in a professional program to address issues related to career fatigue or wellness is not competent to continue in practice or is a danger to himself, his patients, or the public, participation in such a professional program does not trigger the requirement that the health care professional be reported to the Department of Health Professions. The bill contains an emergency clause."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2020"
|
||
identifier: "HB 115"
|
||
citation: "Virginia HB 115 (2020)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
|
||
version_count: 4
|
||
action_count: 33
|
||
vote_count: 8
|
||
first_action: "2019-12-16"
|
||
last_action: "2020-03-08"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9a5c761-35cb-48c0-87f3-188bb0a27b45"
|
||
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB115"
|
||
source_hash: "ac302df1956a5ef4c11e139a4bdb0937dee820f380981fa67c2f79d8d3690046"
|
||
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 115 (2020) — Health care providers, certain; program to address career fatigue and wellness, civil immunity.
|
||
|
||
Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or make recommendations related to health care services to include health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to address issues related to career fatigue and wellness in health care professionals licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine or licensed as a physician assistant. The bill also clarifies that, absent evidence indicating a reasonable probability that a health care professional who is a participant in a professional program to address issues related to career fatigue or wellness is not competent to continue in practice or is a danger to himself, his patients, or the public, participation in such a professional program does not trigger the requirement that the health care professional be reported to the Department of Health Professions. The bill contains an emergency clause.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0198)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0198)
|
||
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB115ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB115ER)
|
||
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB115)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB115)
|
||
4. **Reenrolled bill text (HB115ER2)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB115ER2)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- VOTE: Agree To (94-Y 0-N) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (37-Y 2-N) — **37–2** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2019-12-16** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/08/20 20104347D `introduction`
|
||
- **2019-12-16** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB115)
|
||
- **2020-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2020-01-21** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2020-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2020-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
|
||
- **2020-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
|
||
- **2020-01-27** VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2020-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
|
||
- **2020-01-28** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2020-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2020-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2020-02-17** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2020-02-19** Enrolled
|
||
- **2020-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB115ER)
|
||
- **2020-02-19** Signed by Speaker
|
||
- **2020-02-20** Signed by President
|
||
- **2020-02-24** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2020
|
||
- **2020-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020
|
||
- **2020-03-02** Governor's recommendation received by House
|
||
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Calendar
|
||
- **2020-03-04** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (94-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2020-03-04** VOTE: Agree To (94-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2020-03-08** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (37-Y 2-N)
|
||
- **2020-03-08** Governor's recommendation adopted
|
||
- **2020-03-08** Reenrolled
|
||
- **2020-03-08** Reenrolled bill text (HB115ER2)
|
||
- **2020-03-08** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
|
||
- **2020-03-08** Signed by President as reenrolled
|
||
- **2020-03-08** Enacted, Chapter 198 (effective 3/08/20) `became-law`
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9a5c761-35cb-48c0-87f3-188bb0a27b45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|