republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-301.md

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Bill	Medically underserved areas; transporting patients to 24-hour urgent care facilities.	Medically underserved areas; emergency medicalservices; medical care facilities. Provides that emergency medicalservices vehicles may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care medicalfacilities or other appropriate medical facilities when deemed appropriateby emergency medical services personnel or a physician. The billrequires the Board of Health to develop regulations for when emergencymedical services agencies in medically underserved areas as defined by the Board may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care facilitiesor appropriate medical care facilities other than hospitals. Theregulations shall include provisions for what constitutes a medicallyunderserved area, cases appropriate for transferring a patient toa medical facility other than a hospital, and other information deemedrelevant by the Board.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 301	Virginia SB 301 (2020)	bill		enacted	William M. Stanley, Jr.	4	30	6	2020-01-05	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/6d8ff93d-b308-4b3d-82f5-75dd9ae6b462	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB301	3c08d4a02491c5311ecf895ebafe5e25eddf0b6a61fb62e867e590da5ae6fa4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 301 (2020) — Medically underserved areas; transporting patients to 24-hour urgent care facilities.

Medically underserved areas; emergency medicalservices; medical care facilities. Provides that emergency medicalservices vehicles may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care medicalfacilities or other appropriate medical facilities when deemed appropriateby emergency medical services personnel or a physician. The billrequires the Board of Health to develop regulations for when emergencymedical services agencies in medically underserved areas as defined by the Board may transport patients to 24-hour urgent care facilitiesor appropriate medical care facilities other than hospitals. Theregulations shall include provisions for what constitutes a medicallyunderserved area, cases appropriate for transferring a patient toa medical facility other than a hospital, and other information deemedrelevant by the Board.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0930) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB301ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB301) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB301S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100781D introduction
• 2020-01-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB301)
• 2020-01-17 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-23 Committee substitute printed 20106436D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB301S1)
• 2020-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-01-27 Committee substitute agreed to 20106436D-S1
• 2020-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB301S1
• 2020-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Assigned HWI sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-25 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-05 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB301ER)
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-07 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
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 930 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d8ff93d-b308-4b3d-82f5-75dd9ae6b462. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).