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type: "Bill"
title: "Assisted living facilities; involuntary discharge, safeguards for residents."
description: "Assisted living facilities; involuntary discharge. Requires that regulations of the Board of Social Services regarding involuntary discharges of residents from assisted living facilities provide certain safeguards for residents, including a description of the reasons for which a resident may be involuntarily discharged, certain notice requirements, a requirement that the facility make reasonable efforts to resolve any issues upon which the discharge is based, and the provision of information regarding the resident's right to appeal the facility's decision to discharge the resident."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "Virginia SB 40 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 52
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2021-12-27"
last_action: "2022-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c07bf3a5-3985-474c-896b-ebeb23dcadbe"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB40"
source_hash: "cc74829263c871015fec1a051e7dd68b9f65531f7035c08568bc6b20b4bf3959"
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 40 (2022) — Assisted living facilities; involuntary discharge, safeguards for residents.
Assisted living facilities; involuntary discharge. Requires that regulations of the Board of Social Services regarding involuntary discharges of residents from assisted living facilities provide certain safeguards for residents, including a description of the reasons for which a resident may be involuntarily discharged, certain notice requirements, a requirement that the facility make reasonable efforts to resolve any issues upon which the discharge is based, and the provision of information regarding the resident's right to appeal the facility's decision to discharge the resident.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0706** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0706)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105362D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB40S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 22106223D-S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB40S2)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102327D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB40)
5. **SB40ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB40ER)
6. **SB40ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB40ER2)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (12-Y 0-N 2-A) — **120** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — **71** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **391** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (20-Y 1-N) — **201** (pass) · lower
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102327D `introduction`
- **2021-12-27** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB40)
- **2022-01-28** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-28** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (12-Y 0-N 2-A) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-28** Committee substitute printed 22105362D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-01-28** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB40S1)
- **2022-02-07** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-08** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Committee substitute printed 22106223D-S2 `substitution`
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Committee substitute rejected 22105362D-S1
- **2022-02-10** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 22106223D-S2
- **2022-02-10** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB40S2
- **2022-02-11** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB40S2)
- **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 (20-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
- **2022-03-02** Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (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 amendment agreed to
- **2022-03-07** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-03-07** Passed House with amendment (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB40ER)
- **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** Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (SB40ER2)
- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Enacted, Chapter 706 (effective 7/1/21) `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c07bf3a5-3985-474c-896b-ebeb23dcadbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).