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Bill	Group homes and children's residential facilities; licensure, certain information required.	Group homes; licensure; certain information required. Requires every applicant for licensure or renewal of a license to establish, conduct, maintain, or operate or continue to operate a group home at which services for individuals with mental health or substance use disorder are offered to submit to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, together with such application, financial information; information about services and staffing; and a statement of (i) the legal name of the applicant and, if the applicant is an association, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, the names and addresses of its officers, agents, sponsors, partners, shareholders, or members and (ii) the legal name under which the applicant, any entity that operates group homes that is affiliated with or under common ownership or control with the applicant, and any entity that operates group homes and that is affiliated with or under common ownership or control with any officer, agent, sponsor, partner, shareholder, or member of the applicant to which a license to operate a group home has been issued in any other state, together with a list of the states in which such licenses have been issued and the dates for which such licenses were issued. The bill also provides that in the case of an application for licensure as a children's residential facility, such application shall contain information regarding any complaints, enforcement actions, or sanctions against a license to operate a children's residential facility held by the applicant in another state and that the investigation into such application conducted by the Department of Social Services shall include consideration of any complaints, enforcement actions, or sanctions against a license to operate a children's residential facility held by the applicant in another state.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 597	Virginia HB 597 (2020)	bill		enacted	Kathleen Murphy	4	34	8	2020-01-06	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/0b447c21-bfbf-4f69-8ceb-f60972175e03	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB597	7a2809583161d903590ea1f75a9330ae7cc5d740f2e33ba96cea036ca9f19610	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 597 (2020) — Group homes and children's residential facilities; licensure, certain information required.

Group homes; licensure; certain information required. Requires every applicant for licensure or renewal of a license to establish, conduct, maintain, or operate or continue to operate a group home at which services for individuals with mental health or substance use disorder are offered to submit to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, together with such application, financial information; information about services and staffing; and a statement of (i) the legal name of the applicant and, if the applicant is an association, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, the names and addresses of its officers, agents, sponsors, partners, shareholders, or members and (ii) the legal name under which the applicant, any entity that operates group homes that is affiliated with or under common ownership or control with the applicant, and any entity that operates group homes and that is affiliated with or under common ownership or control with any officer, agent, sponsor, partner, shareholder, or member of the applicant to which a license to operate a group home has been issued in any other state, together with a list of the states in which such licenses have been issued and the dates for which such licenses were issued. The bill also provides that in the case of an application for licensure as a children's residential facility, such application shall contain information regarding any complaints, enforcement actions, or sanctions against a license to operate a children's residential facility held by the applicant in another state and that the investigation into such application conducted by the Department of Social Services shall include consideration of any complaints, enforcement actions, or sanctions against a license to operate a children's residential facility held by the applicant in another state.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB597ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB597) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB597H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kathleen Murphy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104953D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB597)
• 2020-01-17 Assigned HWI sub: Behavioral Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-27 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute printed 20106676D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-30 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources referral-committee
• 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
• 2020-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB597H1)
• 2020-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Committee substitute agreed to 20106676D-H1
• 2020-02-07 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB597H1
• 2020-02-10 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-10 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-11 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Assigned Rehab sub: Social Service and Corrections referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-25 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-03-02 Enrolled
• 2020-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB597ER)
• 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-03 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
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b447c21-bfbf-4f69-8ceb-f60972175e03. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).