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Bill Public health emergencies; expands immunity for health care providers. Public health emergencies; immunity for health care providers; emergency. Expands immunity provided to health care providers responding to a disaster to include actions or omissions taken by the provider as directed by any order of public health in response to such disaster when a local emergency, state of emergency, or public health emergency has been declared. The bill contains an emergency clause. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2022 SB 148 Virginia SB 148 (2022)
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Virginia SB 148 (2022) — Public health emergencies; expands immunity for health care providers.

Public health emergencies; immunity for health care providers; emergency. Expands immunity provided to health care providers responding to a disaster to include actions or omissions taken by the provider as directed by any order of public health in response to such disaster when a local emergency, state of emergency, or public health emergency has been declared. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0617 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 22106420D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102585D (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB148ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • House amendments agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N) — 363 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (14-Y 5-N) — 145 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Judiciary with substitute (11-Y 3-N) — 113 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (73-Y 24-N) — 7224 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — 364 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 53 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Thomas K. Norment, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102585D introduction
  • 2022-01-09 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2022-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB148)
  • 2022-02-09 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2022-02-09 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (11-Y 3-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-09 Committee substitute printed 22106420D-S1 substitution
  • 2022-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-11 Read second time reading-2
  • 2022-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2022-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 22106420D-S1
  • 2022-02-11 Emergency clause added
  • 2022-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB148S1
  • 2022-02-14 Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2022-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB148S1)
  • 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
  • 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
  • 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2022-02-22 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2022-02-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
  • 2022-02-25 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (14-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-28 Read second time reading-2
  • 2022-03-01 Passed by for the day
  • 2022-03-02 Read third time reading-3
  • 2022-03-02 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2022-03-02 Engrossed by House as amended
  • 2022-03-02 Passed House with amendments (73-Y 24-N) passage
  • 2022-03-02 VOTE: Passage (73-Y 24-N)
  • 2022-03-04 Passed by temporarily
  • 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
  • 2022-03-07 House amendments agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N)
  • 2022-03-07 Emergency clause deleted
  • 2022-03-10 Enrolled
  • 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB148ER)
  • 2022-03-10 Signed by President
  • 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
  • 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
  • 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
  • 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 617 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8da1786c-9248-44ea-a9f4-e9c70442f4cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).