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type: "Bill"
title: "Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; licensure, automated external defibrillators."
description: "Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; licensure; automated external defibrillators. Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have and maintain an automated external defibrillator and have staff trained to use such automated external defibrillator."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1522"
citation: "Virginia HB 1522 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garrett McGuire"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-26"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf9e817a-6778-43bf-9260-94688b05eacb"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1522"
source_hash: "b34f97b8ee7e251ba9bc480ac08e9c994c3cde3221d9cd86ea74d16a93176cee"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1522 (2026) — Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; licensure, automated external defibrillators.
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; licensure; automated external defibrillators. Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have and maintain an automated external defibrillator and have staff trained to use such automated external defibrillator.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1096587.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217453.PDF)
3. **Education and Health Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1186413.HTML)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1139858.PDF)
5. **Health Professions Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1128638.HTML)
6. **Health and Human Services Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1136731.HTML)
7. **Senate Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1189041.HTML)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1199381.PDF)
## Votes
- H VOTE: — **895** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **91** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) — **211** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **916** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Garrett McGuire — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Virgil Thornton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-26** Presented and ordered printed 26105988D `introduction`
- **2026-01-26** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1522)
- **2026-01-30** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 1-N)
- **2026-02-10** Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-13** committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-13** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-02-16** Read third time and passed House (91-Y 6-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1522)
- **2026-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-17** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Senate committee offered
- **2026-02-26** Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-27** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-27** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-02** Education and Health Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-02** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2026-03-02** Passed Senate with amendment Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Senate amendment agreed to by House (89-Y 5-N 0-A) `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-11** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-11** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1522ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1522)
- **2026-03-11** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 323 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf9e817a-6778-43bf-9260-94688b05eacb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).