republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-353.md

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Bill	Hospitals; emergency departments to have at least one licensed physician on duty at all times.	Hospitals; emergency departments; licensed physicians. Requires any hospital with an emergency department to have at least one licensed physician on duty and physically present at all times. Current law requires such hospitals to have a licensed physician on call, though not necessarily physically present on the premises, at all times. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025 and is identical to SB 392.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 353	Virginia HB 353 (2024)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	4	32	7	2024-01-05	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/dbce4bf1-6e68-4858-8afc-1371470e4352	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB353	3153e25e6683dd22bde5cadee442fdd936d4d340028b8f94edf7209e478f6c57	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 353 (2024) — Hospitals; emergency departments to have at least one licensed physician on duty at all times.

Hospitals; emergency departments; licensed physicians. Requires any hospital with an emergency department to have at least one licensed physician on duty and physically present at all times. Current law requires such hospitals to have a licensed physician on call, though not necessarily physically present on the premises, at all times. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025 and is identical to SB 392.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0441 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB353ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100997D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24100997D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (81-Y 19-N) — 80–19 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100997D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB353)
• 2024-01-23 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-25 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-30 Engrossed by House as amended HB353E
• 2024-01-30 Printed as engrossed 24100997D-E
• 2024-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (HB353E)
• 2024-01-31 Read third time and passed House (81-Y 19-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-31 VOTE: Passage (81-Y 19-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 (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-15 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB353ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB353ER)
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dbce4bf1-6e68-4858-8afc-1371470e4352. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).