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| Bill | Medical care facilities; designated support persons for persons with disabilities. | Medical care facilities; persons with disabilities; designated support persons. Requires every medical care facility, as defined in the bill, to allow a person with a disability who requires assistance as a result of such disability to be accompanied by a designated support person who will provide support and assistance necessary due to the specifics of the person’s disability to the person with a disability during an admission to such medical care facility. The bill (i) defines "person with a disability" and "designated support person"; (ii) provides that a designated support person shall not be subject to restrictions on visitation adopted by the medical care facility but may be required to comply with reasonable requirements of the medical care facility adopted to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility; and (iii) authorizes a medical care facility to restrict a designated support person's access to specified areas and movement on the premises of the medical care facility when such restrictions are determined by the medical care facility to be reasonably necessary to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility. The bill requires every medical care facility to adopt protocols to inform patients of their right to be accompanied by a designated support person, and to develop and make available to persons with disabilities written information regarding the right of a person with a disability to be accompanied by a designated support person and policies related thereto. The bill contains an emergency clause and directs the Board of Health to adopt emergency regulations within 280 days of the bill's enactment. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2021 | HB 2162 | Virginia HB 2162 (2021) |
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Virginia HB 2162 (2021) — Medical care facilities; designated support persons for persons with disabilities.
Medical care facilities; persons with disabilities; designated support persons. Requires every medical care facility, as defined in the bill, to allow a person with a disability who requires assistance as a result of such disability to be accompanied by a designated support person who will provide support and assistance necessary due to the specifics of the person’s disability to the person with a disability during an admission to such medical care facility. The bill (i) defines "person with a disability" and "designated support person"; (ii) provides that a designated support person shall not be subject to restrictions on visitation adopted by the medical care facility but may be required to comply with reasonable requirements of the medical care facility adopted to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility; and (iii) authorizes a medical care facility to restrict a designated support person's access to specified areas and movement on the premises of the medical care facility when such restrictions are determined by the medical care facility to be reasonably necessary to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility. The bill requires every medical care facility to adopt protocols to inform patients of their right to be accompanied by a designated support person, and to develop and make available to persons with disabilities written information regarding the right of a person with a disability to be accompanied by a designated support person and policies related thereto. The bill contains an emergency clause and directs the Board of Health to adopt emergency regulations within 280 days of the bill's enactment.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0220 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 21103593D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- HB2162EH1 (committee substitute) — source
- HB2162ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102505D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (18-Y 0-N) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
- Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102505D
introduction - 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2021-01-23 Assigned HWI sub: Health
referral-committee - 2021-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB2162)
- 2021-01-26 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 2021-01-26 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (18-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2021-01-26 Committee substitute printed 21103593D-H1
substitution - 2021-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB2162H1)
- 2021-01-28 Read first time
reading-1 - 2021-01-29 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-01-29 Passed by for the day
- 2021-02-01 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2021-02-01 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 21103593D-H1
- 2021-02-01 Emergency clause added
- 2021-02-01 Amendments by Delegate Tran from 1/29 withdrawn
amendment-withdrawal - 2021-02-01 Amendment by Delegate Tran agreed to
amendment-passage - 2021-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB2162EH1
- 2021-02-01 Printed as engrossed 21103593D-EH1
- 2021-02-02 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2021-02-02 VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N)
- 2021-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB2162EH1)
- 2021-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2021-02-03 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 (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 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2021-02-25 Enrolled
- 2021-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB2162ER)
- 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 220 (effective 3/18/21)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/02717cca-618e-45ab-b410-4eec7bd513e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).