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Bill	Certificate of public need; criteria for determining need.	Certificate of public need; criteria for determining need. Makes clear that in determining whether a public need for a proposed project has been demonstrated the State Health Commissioner shall consider the impact of the proposed project on all people to whom services may be provided and not only residents of the service area. This bill is identical to SB 279.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1549	Virginia HB 1549 (2020)	bill		enacted	C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.	3	27	8	2020-01-10	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/8d812f0b-f53e-4606-ba83-b326d1ac4eef	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1549	17d59b178d8d4da9c4b3fc17a0c181fd7c679c8f3e1962fc9007384edb4e29d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1549 (2020) — Certificate of public need; criteria for determining need.

Certificate of public need; criteria for determining need. Makes clear that in determining whether a public need for a proposed project has been demonstrated the State Health Commissioner shall consider the impact of the proposed project on all people to whom services may be provided and not only residents of the service area. This bill is identical to SB 279.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1549ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB1549) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N 1-A) — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (7-Y 5-N) — 7–5 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (27-Y 12-N 1-A) — 27–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-10 Presented and ordered printed 20105314D introduction
• 2020-01-10 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB1549)
• 2020-01-20 Assigned HWI sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-04 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-07 VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Reported from Education and Health (7-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-02 Passed by for the day
• 2020-03-03 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-03 Passed Senate (27-Y 12-N 1-A) passage
• 2020-03-03 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-03 Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N 1-A) passage
• 2020-03-06 Enrolled
• 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB1549ER)
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-06 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 558 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8d812f0b-f53e-4606-ba83-b326d1ac4eef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).