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type: "Bill"
title: "VIIS; any health care provider in the Commonwealth that administers immunizations to participate."
description: "Virginia Immunization Information System; healthcare entities; required participation. Requires any health careprovider in the Commonwealth that administers immunizations to participatein the Virginia Immunization Information System (VIIS) and reportpatient immunization history and information to VIIS. Under currentlaw, participation in VIIS is optional for authorized health careentities. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2061"
citation: "Virginia HB 2061 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney T. Willett"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d92cd9c-1d34-49f4-af9d-74b91c586ea9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2061"
source_hash: "bae18155d7b315b4564bbf77d26d957a0e5e417cd2c72b645bbfe46abf6b4e39"
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 2061 (2021) — VIIS; any health care provider in the Commonwealth that administers immunizations to participate.
Virginia Immunization Information System; healthcare entities; required participation. Requires any health careprovider in the Commonwealth that administers immunizations to participatein the Virginia Immunization Information System (VIIS) and reportpatient immunization history and information to VIIS. Under currentlaw, participation in VIIS is optional for authorized health careentities. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0211** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0211)
2. **HB2061ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2061ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102411D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2061)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (29-Y 9-N) — **299** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 2-N 1-A) — **122** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **90** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (81-Y 19-N) — **8019** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102411D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB2061)
- **2021-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-26** Read third time and passed House (81-Y 19-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26** VOTE: Passage (81-Y 19-N)
- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-12** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 2-N 1-A) `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 (29-Y 9-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB2061ER)
- **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
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 211 (effective 1/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d92cd9c-1d34-49f4-af9d-74b91c586ea9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).