republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-981.md

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Bill	Certified community health workers; Department of Health shall evaluate status of workers, report.	Certified community health workers; annual report. Directs the Department of Health to submit a report on certified community health workers to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations and the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget by November 1, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 981	Virginia SB 981 (2025)	bill		enacted	Ghazala F. Hashmi	4	36	8	2025-01-07	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/1483f255-8d2d-42f6-b1ae-0362308a0f7e	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB981	f6d5b3d3bbca500ee30a656e87c9a13f8727b1b7f25a76d8585e99d3c54f3694	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 981 (2025) — Certified community health workers; Department of Health shall evaluate status of workers, report.

Certified community health workers; annual report. Directs the Department of Health to submit a report on certified community health workers to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations and the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget by November 1, 2025. 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. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (17-Y 4-N) — 17–4 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (81-Y 15-N) — 81–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102193D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB981)
• 2025-01-17 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106406D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-30 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 2025-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-31 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB981)
• 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 Professions referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Health and Human Services (17-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Passed House (81-Y 15-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB981ER) passage
• 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB981)
• 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 510 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1483f255-8d2d-42f6-b1ae-0362308a0f7e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).