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type: "Bill"
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title: "Critical access hospitals; swing beds."
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description: "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 HB 1552."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 1177"
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citation: "Virginia SB 1177 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2025-01-07"
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last_action: "2025-03-19"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d283595c-fc6b-433a-8db0-3adb1d5c2eff"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1177"
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source_hash: "60b8af167ba489fce546ef89fbe3edf71d06d3868264bb6b5f3bc453e8c96683"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 1177 (2025) — Critical access hospitals; swing beds.
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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 HB 1552.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018111.PDF)
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2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071418.PDF)
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3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1054651.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103595D `filing, introduction`
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- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-21** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-22** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1177)
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- **2025-01-23** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-24** Rules suspended
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- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
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- **2025-01-24** Passed by for the day
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- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by Senate
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- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-05** Placed on Calendar
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- **2025-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-11** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2025-02-14** Passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2025-02-18** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-02-18** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1177ER) `passage`
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- **2025-02-18** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1177)
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- **2025-02-18** Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
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- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled`
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- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 135 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
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- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135)
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d283595c-fc6b-433a-8db0-3adb1d5c2eff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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