republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-1226.md

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Bill	Higher educational institutions, public; collection of debts by hospitals affiliated w/institutions.	Collection of debts by hospitals affiliated with public institutions of higher education. Prohibits the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority and the University of Virginia Medical Center from participating in debt collection efforts pursuant to the Virginia Debt Collection Act or the Setoff Debt Collection Act unless all reasonable efforts have been made to determine if the individual with delinquent debt is eligible for financial assistance. The bill requires both hospitals to develop debt collection policies that adhere, at a minimum, to Internal Revenue Service policies regarding financial assistance by tax-exempt hospitals as they were in effect on January 1, 2020.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1226	Virginia HB 1226 (2020)	bill		enacted	Kathy K.L. Tran	4	34	8	2020-01-07	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/811e3e6e-ec2b-46f7-9bc9-f060070a258b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1226	44c6256c522d155f58b343f77c1086fbe4098eaeb80425f86f151154b7504b5d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1226 (2020) — Higher educational institutions, public; collection of debts by hospitals affiliated w/institutions.

Collection of debts by hospitals affiliated with public institutions of higher education. Prohibits the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority and the University of Virginia Medical Center from participating in debt collection efforts pursuant to the Virginia Debt Collection Act or the Setoff Debt Collection Act unless all reasonable efforts have been made to determine if the individual with delinquent debt is eligible for financial assistance. The bill requires both hospitals to develop debt collection policies that adhere, at a minimum, to Internal Revenue Service policies regarding financial assistance by tax-exempt hospitals as they were in effect on January 1, 2020.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1226ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1226H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB1226) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Referred from General Laws — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N) — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 1-N) — 18–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Sally L. Hudson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103924D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Referred from General Laws
• 2020-01-16 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Assigned HWI sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB1226)
• 2020-01-28 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-28 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute printed 20106870D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-30 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 20106870D-H1
• 2020-02-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1226H1
• 2020-02-06 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-06 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB1226H1)
• 2020-02-14 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-28 Enrolled
• 2020-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1226ER)
• 2020-02-28 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-02 Signed by President
• 2020-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 577 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/811e3e6e-ec2b-46f7-9bc9-f060070a258b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).