republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-2116.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funeral service licensees, etc.; priority for personal protective equipment and immunization, etc."
description: "Certain declared states of emergency; essential workers; funeral service licensees; emergency. Provides that in any case in which the Board of Health or Commissioner of Health has made an emergency order or regulation for the purpose of suppressing nuisances dangerous to the public health or a communicable , contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health or the Governor has declared a state of emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat, funeral service licensees and persons employed by a funeral service establishment or by a public medical examination facility shall be considered essential workers and shall be included in any group afforded priority with regard to (i) access to personal protective equipment and (ii) administration of any vaccination against such communicable disease of public health threat during such emergency. The bill contains an emergency clause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2116"
citation: "Virginia HB 2116 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martha M. Mugler"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f2ca4b9-3f30-48fa-a594-0131a057cdbc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2116"
source_hash: "4b7915e7a6eb064ef6675a6a99f134d6b2d467638704dab48fbc2bf9484e9145"
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 2116 (2021) — Funeral service licensees, etc.; priority for personal protective equipment and immunization, etc.

Certain declared states of emergency; essential workers; funeral service licensees; emergency. Provides that in any case in which the Board of Health or Commissioner of Health has made an emergency order or regulation for the purpose of suppressing nuisances dangerous to the public health or a communicable , contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health or the Governor has declared a state of emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat, funeral service licensees and persons employed by a funeral service establishment or by a public medical examination facility shall be considered essential workers and shall be included in any group afforded priority with regard to (i) access to personal protective equipment and (ii) administration of any vaccination against such communicable disease of public health threat during such emergency. The bill contains an emergency clause.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0216** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0216)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21200160D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2116S1)
3. **Floor substitute printed 21103537D-H1 (Mugler)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2116H1)
4. **HB2116EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2116EH1)
5. **HB2116ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2116ER)
6. **Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102718D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2116)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Martha M. Mugler — primary (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102718D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB2116)
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-22** Floor substitute printed 21103537D-H1 (Mugler)
- **2021-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** Committee amendments rejected
- **2021-01-25** Substitute by Delegate Mugler agreed to 21103537D-H1
- **2021-01-25** Amendments by Delegate Carter agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Engrossed by House - floor substitute with amendments HB2116EH1
- **2021-01-25** Printed as engrossed 21103537D-EH1
- **2021-01-26** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26** VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-29** Impact statement from DPB (HB2116EH1)
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-02-18** Committee substitute printed 21200160D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-02-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB2116S1)
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-02-22** Committee substitute agreed to 21200160D-S1
- **2021-02-22** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2116S1
- **2021-02-22** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-23** Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200160D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-23** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB2116ER)
- **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 216 (effective 3/18/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f2ca4b9-3f30-48fa-a594-0131a057cdbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).