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type: "Bill"
title: "Health, Department of; frequency of inspections."
description: "Provides that in cases in which inspections of emergency medical services agencies and vehicles, hospitals, hospices, home care organizations, restaurants, summer camps, campgrounds, and hotels are required, no licensee shall receive additional inspections until every other licensee in that category has been inspected, unless the additional inspection is (i) necessary to follow up on a preoperational inspection or one or more violations, (ii) required by a uniformly applied risk-based schedule established by the Department of Health, (iii) necessary to investigate a complaint, or (iv) otherwise deemed necessary to protect the public health and safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2300"
citation: "Virginia HB 2300 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Summer Camps", "and Campgrounds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John M. O'Bannon, III"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17d653cc-ac31-46f0-9016-db12618b1af7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2300"
source_hash: "8967aa42278eb0dc1fcff8ea6c48c682a07786acf33faf35a958e996d8724de7"
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 2300 (2017) — Health, Department of; frequency of inspections.
Provides that in cases in which inspections of emergency medical services agencies and vehicles, hospitals, hospices, home care organizations, restaurants, summer camps, campgrounds, and hotels are required, no licensee shall receive additional inspections until every other licensee in that category has been inspected, unless the additional inspection is (i) necessary to follow up on a preoperational inspection or one or more violations, (ii) required by a uniformly applied risk-based schedule established by the Department of Health, (iii) necessary to investigate a complaint, or (iv) otherwise deemed necessary to protect the public health and safety.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0465)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2300ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2300ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104683D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2300H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17100856D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2300)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **201** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **950** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- John M. O'Bannon, III — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Presented and ordered printed 17100856D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17104683D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2300H1
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 465 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17d653cc-ac31-46f0-9016-db12618b1af7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).