republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-2222.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military medical personnel program; facilities that offer medical services to public, etc."
description: "Military medical personnel program. Addsany facility that offers medical services to the public and that is supervised by one or more physicians or podiatrists to the listof entities that may participate in the military medical personnelprogram established by the Department of Veterans Services and directsthe Department to assist veterans and other service members who arepreparing for discharge or release and who have recently served inhealth care-related specialties but who do not meet the definitionof \"military medical personnel\" in finding employment in the healthcare sector."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2222"
citation: "Virginia HB 2222 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4e7d903-a0bc-4cd2-9e20-890d081211fe"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2222"
source_hash: "ae8931645d88425d13eca393067a27bac5084e77d8f7f7ce62cc501b59b756de"
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 2222 (2021) — Military medical personnel program; facilities that offer medical services to public, etc.

Military medical personnel program. Addsany facility that offers medical services to the public and that is supervised by one or more physicians or podiatrists to the listof entities that may participate in the military medical personnelprogram established by the Department of Veterans Services and directsthe Department to assist veterans and other service members who arepreparing for discharge or release and who have recently served inhealth care-related specialties but who do not meet the definitionof "military medical personnel" in finding employment in the healthcare sector.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0231** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0231)
2. **HB2222ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2222ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102412D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2222)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Referred from General Laws — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102412D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB2222)
- **2021-01-19** Referred from General Laws
- **2021-01-19** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-23** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-28** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-03** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- **2021-02-03** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2021-02-03** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB2222ER)
- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (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/a4e7d903-a0bc-4cd2-9e20-890d081211fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).