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| Bill | Hospitals; financial assistance for uninsured patient, payment plans. | Hospitals; financial assistance; payment plans. Requires hospitals to screen every uninsured patient, defined inthe bill, to determine the patient's household income and whetherthe individual is eligible for financial assistance under the hospital'sfinancial assistance plan; provides that no hospital shall requireany uninsured patient who is eligible for financial assistance underthe hospital's financial assistance plan and determined to have ahousehold income that is less than or equal to 200 percent of the federal poverty level to pay any amount for emergency medical care;requires every hospital to make a payment plan available for everyuninsured patient who is determined to be eligible for financialassistance pursuant to the hospital's financial assistance plan andcaps such payment at four percent of the patient's monthly householdincome; prohibits hospitals from engaging in extraordinary collection actions against an uninsured patient who owes a debt for medicalservices or the estate of a deceased person; and requires hospitalsto report data and information regarding charity care, discountedcare, and financial assistance provided under the hospital's financialassistance policy to the nonprofit organization with which the Departmentof Health has entered into a contract for the compilation, storage,analysis, and evaluation of data. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 201 | Virginia SB 201 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 201 (2022) — Hospitals; financial assistance for uninsured patient, payment plans.
Hospitals; financial assistance; payment plans. Requires hospitals to screen every uninsured patient, defined inthe bill, to determine the patient's household income and whetherthe individual is eligible for financial assistance under the hospital'sfinancial assistance plan; provides that no hospital shall requireany uninsured patient who is eligible for financial assistance underthe hospital's financial assistance plan and determined to have ahousehold income that is less than or equal to 200 percent of the federal poverty level to pay any amount for emergency medical care;requires every hospital to make a payment plan available for everyuninsured patient who is determined to be eligible for financialassistance pursuant to the hospital's financial assistance plan andcaps such payment at four percent of the patient's monthly householdincome; prohibits hospitals from engaging in extraordinary collection actions against an uninsured patient who owes a debt for medicalservices or the estate of a deceased person; and requires hospitalsto report data and information regarding charity care, discountedcare, and financial assistance provided under the hospital's financialassistance policy to the nonprofit organization with which the Departmentof Health has entered into a contract for the compilation, storage,analysis, and evaluation of data.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0679 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22106183D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22107061D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- Conference substitute printed 22107713D-S2 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104042D (committee substitute) — source
- SB201ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 0–39 (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104042D
introduction - 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB201)
- 2022-02-10 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-10 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-10 Committee substitute printed 22106183D-S1
substitution - 2022-02-10 Incorporates SB245 (Hashmi)
- 2022-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-14 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-02-14 Committee substitute agreed to 22106183D-S1
- 2022-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB201S1
- 2022-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-14 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-22 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2022-02-24 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-24 Committee substitute printed 22107061D-H1
substitution - 2022-02-24 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2022-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB201S1)
- 2022-02-25 Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
referral-committee - 2022-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB201H1)
- 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-02 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-04 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-03-07 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-07 Committee substitute agreed to 22107061D-H1
- 2022-03-07 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB201H1
- 2022-03-07 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-03-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-08 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- 2022-03-09 House insisted on substitute
- 2022-03-09 House requested conference committee
- 2022-03-10 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-10 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2022-03-10 Conferees appointed by House
- 2022-03-10 Amended by conference committee
- 2022-03-10 Conference substitute printed 22107713D-S2
- 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-11 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB201S2)
- 2022-03-21 Enrolled
- 2022-03-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB201ER)
- 2022-03-21 Signed by President
- 2022-03-22 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 679 (effective 7/1/22)
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Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f3f761f-7ff2-4129-acff-d348c35dc097. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).