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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.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 370 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 970 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (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).