republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-763.md

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Bill	Hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures.	Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring the use of a smoke evacuation system for all planned surgical procedures. The bill defines "smoke evacuation system" as smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter, and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and to prevent surgical smoke from making ocular contact or contact with a person's respiratory tract. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 537.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 763	Virginia HB 763 (2024)	bill		enacted	Karrie K. Delaney	4	30	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/fc927b3f-2100-4148-9089-daa488609d54	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB763	485452dafa04e1a16a4773fcbf99da25c3f5eeb7f789d7a61cfe81d617ec83c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 763 (2024) — Hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures.

Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring the use of a smoke evacuation system for all planned surgical procedures. The bill defines "smoke evacuation system" as smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter, and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and to prevent surgical smoke from making ocular contact or contact with a person's respiratory tract. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 537.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0207 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105653D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB763ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103393D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103393D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB763)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-06 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Committee substitute printed 24105653D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB763H1)
• 2024-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Committee substitute agreed to 24105653D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB763H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A) 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 (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB763ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB763ER)
• 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
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc927b3f-2100-4148-9089-daa488609d54. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).