republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-392.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 HB 353.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 392	Virginia SB 392 (2024)	bill		enacted	Stella G. Pekarsky	4	36	7	2024-01-09	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/b52cb7e8-3b86-4cf6-9887-c33cff9f8437	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB392	344c97da0223877106023023515e23c99f2516bbc0ef421f44a60a63061689d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 392 (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 HB 353.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0505 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103092D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24103092D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB392ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N) — 62–36 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• House amendment agreed to by Senate (36-Y 2-N) — 36–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stella G. Pekarsky — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103092D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB392)
• 2024-01-23 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-25 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-02-01 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-01 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB392E
• 2024-02-01 Printed as engrossed 24103092D-E
• 2024-02-02 Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB392E)
• 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
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-20 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-20 Passed House with amendment (63-Y 36-N) passage
• 2024-02-20 VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 House amendment agreed to by Senate (36-Y 2-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB392ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB392ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 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
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 505 (effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b52cb7e8-3b86-4cf6-9887-c33cff9f8437. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).