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type: "Bill"
title: "Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "Virginia SB 154 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11bfba4c-2b96-4bbb-9bef-fe472419cf76"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB154"
source_hash: "b8fd7aca594397a7b1cb7311a2b284dba1f0c3f66dcd098fd554f132920280d1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0231)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103704D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB154)
3. **SB154ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB154ER)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **960** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11bfba4c-2b96-4bbb-9bef-fe472419cf76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).