republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-365.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care provider; SHHR to convene a work group related to credentialing."
description: "Secretary of Health and Human Resources; health care provider credentialing work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group of stakeholders to gather information and make recommendations on how the Commonwealth could develop or procure a statewide centralized primary source verification system that can be relied upon by the Commonwealth and its health carriers, health care providers, hospitals, and health systems for health care provider credentialing. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 15, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 365"
citation: "Virginia SB 365 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Siobhan S. Dunnavant"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8a7d513-5769-4cae-a382-8068bc6bd21c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB365"
source_hash: "50d036509b0b8aad4ac2cb8775a77e229a197b24dfa4fa2c1c86df48dd4183de"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia SB 365 (2020) — Health care provider; SHHR to convene a work group related to credentialing.

Secretary of Health and Human Resources; health care provider credentialing work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group of stakeholders to gather information and make recommendations on how the Commonwealth could develop or procure a statewide centralized primary source verification system that can be relied upon by the Commonwealth and its health carriers, health care providers, hospitals, and health systems for health care provider credentialing. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 15, 2020.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0849)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB365ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB365ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB365S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB365S1)
4. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB365S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB365)

## Votes

- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101925D `introduction`
- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education and 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 20106430D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 20106430D-S1
- **2020-01-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB365S1
- **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`
- **2020-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB365S1)
- **2020-02-13** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment (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** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-28** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-02-28** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB365ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **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
- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 849 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8a7d513-5769-4cae-a382-8068bc6bd21c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).