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Bill	Critical access hospitals; swing beds.	Certificate of public need; exception; critical access hospitals; swing beds; sunset. Allows critical access hospitals to utilize an average of up to 10 swing beds per day, calculated over the hospital's fiscal year, without obtaining a certificate of public need. Under current law, critical access hospitals may only use up to 10 percent of beds as swing beds. The bill directs the State Commissioner of Health to collect data annually from critical access hospitals that use fiscal year averaging for swing beds and make such data publicly available. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028. This bill is identical to SB 1177.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1552	Virginia HB 1552 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bill Wiley	4	30	6	2024-11-14	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d0d07ddc-f1cf-4015-a814-4fc3a6eabbff	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1552	5be8ae649f3180a13541c6207708ebb8bb441bd8fa8bbc4471c3112a26d8bc8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1552 (2025) — Critical access hospitals; swing beds.

Certificate of public need; exception; critical access hospitals; swing beds; sunset. Allows critical access hospitals to utilize an average of up to 10 swing beds per day, calculated over the hospital's fiscal year, without obtaining a certificate of public need. Under current law, critical access hospitals may only use up to 10 percent of beds as swing beds. The bill directs the State Commissioner of Health to collect data annually from critical access hospitals that use fiscal year averaging for swing beds and make such data publicly available. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028. This bill is identical to SB 1177.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Wiley — primary (person)
• Delores Oates — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100479D filing, introduction
• 2024-11-14 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-23 Committee substitute printed 25103954D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1552)
• 2025-01-27 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-28 Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-28 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-29 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1552)
• 2025-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-30 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-07 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-07 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-10 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-12 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-12 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1552ER) passage
• 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1552)
• 2025-02-12 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-15 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-02-18 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 114 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0114)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0d07ddc-f1cf-4015-a814-4fc3a6eabbff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).