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| Bill | Telehealth visits for patients with disabilities; best practice educational training. | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; best practice training; telehealth visits for patients with disabilities. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop and disseminate best practice educational training for health care providers on how to conduct telehealth visits for patients with disabilities. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | SB 1038 | Virginia SB 1038 (2025) |
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Virginia SB 1038 (2025) — Telehealth visits for patients with disabilities; best practice educational training.
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; best practice training; telehealth visits for patients with disabilities. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop and disseminate best practice educational training for health care providers on how to conduct telehealth visits for patients with disabilities. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Stella G. Pekarsky — primary (person)
- David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102205D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1038)
- 2025-01-21 Assigned Education sub: Health
referral-committee - 2025-01-23 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-24 Rules suspended
- 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-24 Passed by for the day
- 2025-01-27 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-01-27 Engrossed by Senate
- 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-02-03 Placed on Calendar
- 2025-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
referral-committee - 2025-02-04 Assigned sub: Behavioral Health
referral-committee - 2025-02-11 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-13 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-17 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-18 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-18 Passed House (97-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-20 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1038ER)
passage - 2025-02-20 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-02-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1038)
- 2025-02-23 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-05 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025
enrolled - 2025-03-05 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 323 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab096456-99e0-441b-af46-2521b57a9d13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).