republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-154.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
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 HB 188.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 154	Virginia SB 154 (2024)	bill		enacted	Christopher T. Head	3	27	6	2024-01-05	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/11bfba4c-2b96-4bbb-9bef-fe472419cf76	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB154	b8fd7aca594397a7b1cb7311a2b284dba1f0c3f66dcd098fd554f132920280d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 154 (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 HB 188.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0231 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103704D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB154ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103704D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Impact statement from DPB (SB154)
• 2024-01-15 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-22 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-23 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-13 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB154ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB154ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11bfba4c-2b96-4bbb-9bef-fe472419cf76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).