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| Bill | Prescription drugs; emergency regulations related to price transparency, effective period. | Department of Health; emergency regulationsrelated to prescription drug price transparency; effective period; emergency. Directs that the emergency regulations 12VAC5-219,promulgated by the Department of Health pursuant to Chapter 304 ofthe Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I, shall remain in effect until the promulgation of final regulations. The bill requiressuch effective period to be retroactive to January 1, 2024, and contains an emergency clause. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2024 | HB 592 | Virginia HB 592 (2024) |
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Virginia HB 592 (2024) — Prescription drugs; emergency regulations related to price transparency, effective period.
Department of Health; emergency regulationsrelated to prescription drug price transparency; effective period; emergency. Directs that the emergency regulations 12VAC5-219,promulgated by the Department of Health pursuant to Chapter 304 ofthe Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I, shall remain in effect until the promulgation of final regulations. The bill requiressuch effective period to be retroactive to January 1, 2024, and contains an emergency clause.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0727 (committee substitute) — source
- HB592ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/24 24104638D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/24 24104638D
filing, introduction - 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
referral-committee - 2024-01-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB592)
- 2024-01-18 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2024-01-22 Read first time
reading-1 - 2024-01-23 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2024-01-24 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2024-01-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2024-01-25 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2024-01-25 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2024-02-19 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health
referral-committee - 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2024-02-26 Read third time
reading-3 - 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2024-02-26 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2024-02-29 Enrolled
enrolled - 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB592ER)
passage - 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB592ER)
- 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2024-03-03 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 - 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 727 (effective 4/8/24)
executive-signature - 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2f7286b-b0fe-4f4f-9017-e96f72aa8ac4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).