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| Bill | Hospitals; emergency department physicians. | Hospitals; psychiatric emergency departments. Allows hospitals with psychiatric emergency departments located in the City of Hampton to operate without a physician on duty when certain conditions are met, including having written agreements in place with emergency medical service providers and being immediately adjacent to a non-psychiatric emergency department. The bill requires such psychiatric emergency departments to submit treatment data to the General Assembly on an annual basis by November 1. This bill is identical to HB 1318. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 738 | Virginia SB 738 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 738 (2026) — Hospitals; emergency department physicians.
Hospitals; psychiatric emergency departments. Allows hospitals with psychiatric emergency departments located in the City of Hampton to operate without a physician on duty when certain conditions are met, including having written agreements in place with emergency medical service providers and being immediately adjacent to a non-psychiatric emergency department. The bill requires such psychiatric emergency departments to submit treatment data to the General Assembly on an annual basis by November 1. This bill is identical to HB 1318.
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
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services — 20–2 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 35–0 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 92–4 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Emily M. Jordan — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-16 Presented and ordered printed 26104945D
introduction - 2026-01-16 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2026-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB738)
- 2026-02-06 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2026-02-06 Senate subcommittee offered
- 2026-02-12 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2026-02-12 Senate committee offered
- 2026-02-12 Committee substitute printed 26106705D-S1
substitution - 2026-02-13 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (36-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-13 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-16 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-16 Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote)
substitution - 2026-02-16 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute (Voice Vote)
substitution - 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB738)
- 2026-02-24 Placed on Calendar
- 2026-02-24 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-24 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
referral-committee - 2026-02-24 Reported from Health and Human Services (20-Y 2-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-26 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-27 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-27 Passed House (92-Y 4-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-04 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB738ER)
passage - 2026-03-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB738)
- 2026-03-04 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-04 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 297 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/34a3afcb-2be1-4b9c-b471-16e999784a68. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).