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type: "Bill"
title: "Home care organizations; personal care services by a nurse through use of audio or video technology."
description: "Home care organizations; personal care services; supervision; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to includein regulations governing home care organizations a provision forsupervision of home care attendants providing personal care servicesby a licensed nurse through use of audio-only telephone communication."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1831"
citation: "Virginia HB 1831 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2021-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43fb016a-6f44-4f8c-bc83-1b41ae776c8b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1831"
source_hash: "63172383bade18aaf942097945c041f4f87f9d542e88666c63e47458e6ed1288"
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 HB 1831 (2021) — Home care organizations; personal care services by a nurse through use of audio or video technology.
Home care organizations; personal care services; supervision; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to includein regulations governing home care organizations a provision forsupervision of home care attendants providing personal care servicesby a licensed nurse through use of audio-only telephone communication.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0470** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0470)
2. **HB1831ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1831ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100823D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1831)
4. **Printed as engrossed 21100823D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1831E)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (37-Y 1-N) — **371** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — **141** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
- Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100823D `introduction`
- **2021-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB1831)
- **2021-01-19** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2021-01-25** Engrossed by House as amended HB1831E
- **2021-01-25** Printed as engrossed 21100823D-E
- **2021-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB1831E)
- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-27** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Rereferred to Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed Senate (37-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB1831ER)
- **2021-02-25** Signed by President
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 470 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43fb016a-6f44-4f8c-bc83-1b41ae776c8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).