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| Bill | Mobile health clinics; DHCD to include broadband access services for clinics. | Department of Housing and Community Development; broadband access services for mobile health clinics. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to, as part of its broader initiative to support the development and implementation of programs that support telehealth, include broadband access services for mobile health clinics as a priority for broadband nondeployment programs using federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program funding to the extent approved by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | SB 842 | Virginia SB 842 (2025) |
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Virginia SB 842 (2025) — Mobile health clinics; DHCD to include broadband access services for clinics.
Department of Housing and Community Development; broadband access services for mobile health clinics. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to, as part of its broader initiative to support the development and implementation of programs that support telehealth, include broadband access services for mobile health clinics as a priority for broadband nondeployment programs using federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program funding to the extent approved by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. As introduced, this bill was 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.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- General Laws and Technology Amendments (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102179D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-02 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2025-01-15 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-22 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-23 Rules suspended
- 2025-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-23 Passed by for the day
- 2025-01-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-01-24 Reading of amendments waived
- 2025-01-24 General Laws and Technology Amendments agreed to
amendment-passage - 2025-01-24 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2025-01-24 Printed as engrossed 25102179D-E
- 2025-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-01-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB842)
- 2025-02-04 Placed on Calendar
- 2025-02-04 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2025-02-05 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
referral-committee - 2025-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-11 Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-13 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-14 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-14 Passed House (96-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-18 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB842ER)
passage - 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB842)
- 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-02-20 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
enrolled - 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 356 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97de4f94-4979-40d7-b5f2-034106cd2219. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).