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Certificate of public need; revises the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program.

Certificate of public need. Revises the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill (i) removes from the list of reviewable medical care facilities specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of lithotripsy, magnetic source imaging, or nuclear medicine imaging; (ii) removes from the definition of project introduction into an existing medical care facility of any new lithotripsy, magnetic source imaging, or obstetrical service that the facility has never provided or has not provided in the previous 12 months and the addition by an existing medical care facility of any medical equipment for the provision of lithotripsy and magnetic source imaging; (iii) creates a new process for registration of projects exempted from the definition of project by the bill; (iv) renames the State Medical Facilities Plan as the State Health Services Plan and establishes a State Health Services Plan task force to provide recommendations related to the content of the State Health Services Plan; (v) clarifies the content of the application for a certificate; (vi) reduces the timeline for a person to be made party to the case for good cause from 80 calendar days to four days following completion of the review and submission of recommendations related to an application; (vii) requires the Commissioner of Health to condition issuance of a certificate upon the agreement of the applicant to provide care to individuals who are eligible for benefits under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq.), Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.), and 10 U.S.C. § 1071 et seq. and permits the Commissioner to condition the issuance of a certificate on the agreement of the applicant to provide specialty medical services in addition to existing options for conditioning certificates; (viii) requires every certificate holder to develop a financial assistance policy that includes specific eligibility criteria and procedures for applying for charity care, which shall be provided to a patient at the time of admission or discharge or at the time services are provided, included with any billing statements sent to uninsured patients, posted conspicuously in public areas of the medical care facility for which the certificate was issued and posted on a website maintained by the certificate holder; (ix) eliminates the requirement that a person willfully fail, refuse, or neglect to comply with a plan of correction to be subject to a civil penalty so that any failure, refusal, or neglecting to comply with a plan of correction may subject the person to a civil penalty; and (x) provides that the Commissioner may consider any changes in the circumstances of the certificate holder resulting from changes in the financing or delivery of health care services, including changes to the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services, and any other specific circumstances of the certificate holder when determining whether conditions imposed on a certificate continue to be appropriate. The bill also (a) directs the Department of Health to develop recommendations to reduce the duration of the average review cycle for applications for certificates of public need to not more than 120 days and to report on its recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2020, and (b) directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to implement a system to ensure that data needed to evaluate whether an application for a certificate is consistent with the State Health Services Plan and is timely and reliable; to make all public records pertaining to applications for certificates and the review process available in real time in a searchable, digital format online; to make an inventory of capacity authorized by certificates of public need, both operational and not yet operational, available in a digital format online; and to establish a public education and outreach program designed to improve public awareness of the certificate of public need process and the public's role in such process by January 1, 2021. The provisions of this bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

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Virginia General Assembly

2020

SB 764

Virginia SB 764 (2020)

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enacted

George L. Barker

2020-01-08

2020-04-22

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https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB764

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https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

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Virginia SB 764 (2020) — Certificate of public need; revises the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1271) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB764ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate as amended SB764E (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB764) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB764H1) (committee substitute) — source
Reenrolled bill text (SB764ER2) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N) — 20–19 (pass) · upper
House substitute rejected by Senate (7-Y 33-N) — 7–33 (fail) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 6-N) — 9–6 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (25-Y 15-N) — 25–15 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Agree To (84-Y 3-N) — 83–3 (pass) · lower
VOTE: (86-Y 7-N) — 85–7 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103707D introduction
2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
2020-01-27 Assigned Education sub: Certificate of Public Need referral-committee
2020-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (SB764)
2020-02-06 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 6-N) committee-passage
2020-02-06 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
2020-02-06 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-11 Reading of amendments waived
2020-02-11 Committee amendments agreed to
2020-02-11 Reading of amendment waived
2020-02-11 Committee amendment agreed to
2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB764E
2020-02-11 Printed as engrossed 20103707D-E
2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11 Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N) passage
2020-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB764E)
2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
2020-02-14 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-14 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
2020-02-18 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
2020-02-18 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-18 Committee substitute printed 20108477D-H1 substitution
2020-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB764H1)
2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-21 Committee substitute agreed to 20108477D-H1
2020-02-21 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB764H1
2020-02-21 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
2020-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
2020-02-25 Passed by for the day
2020-02-26 VOTE: Agree To (84-Y 3-N)
2020-02-26 Passed by temporarily
2020-02-26 House substitute rejected by Senate (7-Y 33-N)
2020-02-26 House receded from substitute (84-Y 3-N)
2020-03-04 Enrolled
2020-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB764ER)
2020-03-05 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
2020-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
2020-04-22 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (25-Y 15-N)
2020-04-22 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (86-Y 7-N)
2020-04-22 VOTE: (86-Y 7-N)
2020-04-22 Governor's recommendation adopted
2020-04-22 Reenrolled
2020-04-22 Reenrolled bill text (SB764ER2)
2020-04-22 Signed by President as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Enacted, Chapter 1271 (effective 7/1/20) became-law

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28521799-502d-4434-b664-bf69df87fcad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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