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| Bill | Childbirth; postpartum process, definitions. | Childbirth; postpartum process. Requires health care facilities providing services related to labor and childbirth to develop policies to (i) allow every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth in addition to a partner or spouse; (ii) at the discretion of the treating physician, allow every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth when a partner or spouse is not permitted to be present; (iii) prioritize newborns bonding with their families in order to facilitate the postpartum process; (iv) prohibit excluding from care any person giving birth or prohibit interrupting the process of birth without the informed consent of the birthing person; (v) detail the facility's process related to receiving a pregnant person's patient information from any provider who has provided care for the pregnant person; (vi) establish processes to transfer and receive pregnant persons across levels of care of licensed facilities within the facility's capacity and capability; and (vii) establish a process to receive individuals who are pregnant, giving birth, or in the postpartum process from locations other than licensed facilities. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | SB 1384 | Virginia SB 1384 (2025) |
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Virginia SB 1384 (2025) — Childbirth; postpartum process, definitions.
Childbirth; postpartum process. Requires health care facilities providing services related to labor and childbirth to develop policies to (i) allow every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth in addition to a partner or spouse; (ii) at the discretion of the treating physician, allow every birthing person to have a companion or doula with the person during birth when a partner or spouse is not permitted to be present; (iii) prioritize newborns bonding with their families in order to facilitate the postpartum process; (iv) prohibit excluding from care any person giving birth or prohibit interrupting the process of birth without the informed consent of the birthing person; (v) detail the facility's process related to receiving a pregnant person's patient information from any provider who has provided care for the pregnant person; (vi) establish processes to transfer and receive pregnant persons across levels of care of licensed facilities within the facility's capacity and capability; and (vii) establish a process to receive individuals who are pregnant, giving birth, or in the postpartum process from locations other than licensed facilities.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- SEH Sub: Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)
- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
- Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103704D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-13 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2025-01-28 Assigned Education sub: Health
referral-committee - 2025-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-30 Committee substitute printed 25106301D-S1
substitution - 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
- 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-31 Passed by for the day
- 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1384)
- 2025-02-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
- 2025-02-03 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 2025-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
substitution - 2025-02-03 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-03 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-06 Placed on Calendar
- 2025-02-06 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
referral-committee - 2025-02-06 Assigned sub: 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 (SB1384ER)
passage - 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1384)
- 2025-02-20 Signed by Speaker
passage - 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 - 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 589 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9a1131e-90bd-461a-9831-7c4cda662412. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).