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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals sunset provision."
description: "Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Repeals the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1408"
citation: "Virginia SB 1408 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b64b9f2e-f346-4e54-892d-c46065e18024"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1408"
source_hash: "5df628d7e17638332b0389851364f90fdb0fda54c53a0d12833e6aece1a27497"
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 SB 1408 (2021) — Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals sunset provision.
Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Repeals the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0315** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0315)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102395D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1408)
3. **SB1408ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1408ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules — **00** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) — **180** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- George L. Barker — primary (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102395D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB1408)
- **2021-01-22** Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-05** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules
- **2021-02-19** Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Passed by temporarily
- **2021-02-24** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-24** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
- **2021-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB1408ER)
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
- **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
- **2021-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 315 (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/b64b9f2e-f346-4e54-892d-c46065e18024`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).