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Bill	Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations.	Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also changes the name of the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to the Advance Health Care Planning Registry. The bill directs the Department of Health to amend certain Advance Health Care Planning Registry regulations. This bill is identical to SB 154.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 188	Virginia HB 188 (2024)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	4	32	7	2024-01-03	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/2d19a90f-3bdb-45df-8633-a21dde02e73b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB188	2bfa77deb5962a3eb10aaa53c56c28fc5d3bcf1ca5ad48b2799014cfa28b3c50	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 188 (2024) — Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations.

Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also changes the name of the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to the Advance Health Care Planning Registry. The bill directs the Department of Health to amend certain Advance Health Care Planning Registry regulations. This bill is identical to SB 154.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0274 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107757D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB188ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102629D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate with substitute 24107757D-S1 (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102629D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-03 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB188)
• 2024-01-17 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-25 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-31 Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-31 VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-01 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-15 Committee substitute printed 24107757D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-15 Impact statement from DPB (HB188S1)
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-19 Committee substitute agreed to 24107757D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-19 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB188S1 substitution
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate with substitute 24107757D-S1 (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Senate substitute agreed to by House 24107757D-S1 (98-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB188ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB188ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 274 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d19a90f-3bdb-45df-8633-a21dde02e73b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).