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Bill Restaurants; exempts certain facilities or programs. Restaurants; certain facilities or programs; exemptions. Exempts certain facilities that provide custodial care to 12 or fewer adults or children in a home from regulations applicable to restaurants. This bill is identical to SB 677. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2026 HB 840 Virginia HB 840 (2026)
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Virginia HB 840 (2026) — Restaurants; exempts certain facilities or programs.

Restaurants; certain facilities or programs; exemptions. Exempts certain facilities that provide custodial care to 12 or fewer adults or children in a home from regulations applicable to restaurants. This bill is identical to SB 677.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 370 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health — 150 (pass) · upper
  • H VOTE: — 960 (pass) · lower
  • Passage R — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Health and Human Services — 210 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101823D filing, introduction
  • 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2026-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB840)
  • 2026-01-28 Referred from Courts of Justice and referred to Health and Human Services (Voice Vote) referral-committee
  • 2026-01-30 Assigned sub: Behavioral Health referral-committee
  • 2026-02-12 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
  • 2026-02-12 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-02-15 Read first time reading-1
  • 2026-02-16 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
  • 2026-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2026-02-18 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2026-02-26 Reported from Education and Health (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 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
  • 2026-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2026-03-06 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB840ER) passage
  • 2026-03-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB840)
  • 2026-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2026-03-06 Signed by President passage
  • 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
  • 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
  • 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2093e68d-6157-44a7-984f-ac6c80a9305b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).