republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-386.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System; trauma data, confidentiality."
description: "Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System; trauma data; confidentiality. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to disclose certain confidential data in the Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System, including information, research, or medical data that identifies patients by name or address, to certain entities that seek to improve the delivery of prehospital and hospital emergency medical services, the quality of patient care, and access to medical services or to make other system improvements, if the Commissioner determines that such disclosure is necessary to develop and implement such improvements. The bill requires the Board of Health to develop and approve a policy specific to the sharing of data from the Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 386"
citation: "Virginia SB 386 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acafb53a-ddf9-4d8d-901f-2dd3c7f77700"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB386"
source_hash: "c4a8b1765e8d50aeea7ba554e3fc107ecd1b847af650011fd041b733efe2f895"
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 386 (2020) — Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System; trauma data, confidentiality.

Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System; trauma data; confidentiality. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to disclose certain confidential data in the Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System, including information, research, or medical data that identifies patients by name or address, to certain entities that seek to improve the delivery of prehospital and hospital emergency medical services, the quality of patient care, and access to medical services or to make other system improvements, if the Commissioner determines that such disclosure is necessary to develop and implement such improvements. The bill requires the Board of Health to develop and approve a policy specific to the sharing of data from the Emergency Medical Services Patient Care Information System.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0883)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0883)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB386ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB386ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB386)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB386)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB386S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB386S1)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed 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: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102541D `introduction`
- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB386)
- **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 20106285D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB386S1)
- **2020-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 20106285D-S1
- **2020-01-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB386S1
- **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 (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Passed by for the day
- **2020-03-02** Passed by temporarily
- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB386ER)
- **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
- **2020-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 883 (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/acafb53a-ddf9-4d8d-901f-2dd3c7f77700`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).