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Bill	Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing.	Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing. Provides that, in cases in which any law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, the next of kin of the deceased person shall be deemed to have consented to testing of the decedent's blood for infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses and release of such test results to the person who was exposed. Under current law, whenever a law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, consent for testing and release of the results must be obtained from the next of kin of the deceased person before testing may be initiated.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 664	Virginia HB 664 (2020)	bill		enacted	Robert B. Bell	3	24	7	2020-01-06	2020-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/5f8c7a09-98c6-4cb7-addf-050a64281d91	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB664	9c06e8967331fd865d2a065a0ab3645efc1e4b740de3584608ea2fb4a28fd564	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 664 (2020) — Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing.

Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing. Provides that, in cases in which any law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, the next of kin of the deceased person shall be deemed to have consented to testing of the decedent's blood for infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses and release of such test results to the person who was exposed. Under current law, whenever a law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a deceased person in a manner that may, according to the then-current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, transmit human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses, consent for testing and release of the results must be obtained from the next of kin of the deceased person before testing may be initiated.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB664ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB664ER) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Robert B. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102403D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2020-01-31 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 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 the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Rereferred from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-17 Rereferred to Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-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 Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-03-05 Enrolled
• 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
• 2020-03-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 502 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f8c7a09-98c6-4cb7-addf-050a64281d91. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).