republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2597.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	Administrative Process Act; provisional license to an assisted living facility or adult day center.	Commissioner of Social Services; appeal of provisional licenses. Requires that corrective action of an applicant for provisional licensure, acceptable to the Commissioner of Social Services and on a schedule determined by the Commissioner, shall be required prior to any appeal of the provisional license issued to an assisted living facility or adult day center. This bill is identical to SB 937.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2597	Virginia HB 2597 (2025)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	7	40	7	2025-01-13	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/b0df0d63-9db9-4931-974e-4db4678c7986	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2597	2c2174e0f99a4a2c899d9432dbe5fad5f6fc06f9c56bbb1a80ee835695e917e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2597 (2025) — Administrative Process Act; provisional license to an assisted living facility or adult day center.

Commissioner of Social Services; appeal of provisional licenses. Requires that corrective action of an applicant for provisional licensure, acceptable to the Commissioner of Social Services and on a schedule determined by the Commissioner, shall be required prior to any appeal of the provisional license issued to an assisted living facility or adult day center. This bill is identical to SB 937.

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. Delegate Rasoul Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Rehabilitation and Social Services Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100663D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-13 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2597)
• 2025-01-21 Assigned sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Committee substitute printed 25105543D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-30 Floor substitute printed 25106333D-H2 (Rasoul)
• 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-30 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2597)
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2597)
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Health and Human Services Substitute rejected
• 2025-01-31 Delegate Rasoul Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House - floor substitute
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-07 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-10 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Reading of amendments waived
• 2025-02-12 Rehabilitation and Social Services Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-12 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-17 Senate Amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2597ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2597)
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 290 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0df0d63-9db9-4931-974e-4db4678c7986. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).