republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-544.md

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Bill	Physician assistant; capacity determinations.	Advance directives; physician assistants; capacity determinations. Adds physician assistants to the list of healthcare practitioners permitted to determine that a person who has executedan advance directive granting an agent the authority to consent tothe person's admission to a facility, as defined in § 37.2-100,for mental health treatment is incapable of making an informed decisionregarding such admission.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 544	Virginia SB 544 (2020)	bill		enacted	John S. Edwards	4	29	6	2020-01-07	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/10a5d11e-1d0c-4b79-91cb-e312a78b8d08	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB544	3dedafb3f61748b1de3554d9f467981926787c795b56fb2f4c03106497545b75	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 544 (2020) — Physician assistant; capacity determinations.

Advance directives; physician assistants; capacity determinations. Adds physician assistants to the list of healthcare practitioners permitted to determine that a person who has executedan advance directive granting an agent the authority to consent tothe person's admission to a facility, as defined in § 37.2-100,for mental health treatment is incapable of making an informed decisionregarding such admission.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB544ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB544E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB544) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John S. Edwards — primary (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102667D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB544)
• 2020-01-27 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-10 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-02-10 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-02-10 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB544E
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-10 Printed as engrossed 20102667D-E
• 2020-02-11 Impact statement from DPB (SB544E)
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled
• 2020-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB544ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10a5d11e-1d0c-4b79-91cb-e312a78b8d08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).