republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-537.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 HB 763.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 537	Virginia SB 537 (2024)	bill		enacted	Lamont Bagby	4	31	5	2024-01-10	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/b7016b10-3d25-4502-9b50-e5b039cf8c96	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB537	1a7817977fe11ce049bd1a0318b0451c3f9f97db94fcb7ef4e0e9caf48d6c3f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 537 (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 HB 763.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0249 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105644D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102777D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB537ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lamont Bagby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102777D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB537)
• 2024-01-19 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-25 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Committee substitute printed 24105644D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-01-29 Committee substitute agreed to 24105644D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-29 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB537S1 substitution
• 2024-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB537S1)
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed Senate (40-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
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)' passage
• 2024-02-20 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB537ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB537ER)
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-29 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 249 (effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b7016b10-3d25-4502-9b50-e5b039cf8c96. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).