republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2546.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maternal Mortality Review Team; established, investigations."
description: ". Establishes the Maternal Death Review Team (the Team) to develop and implement procedures to ensure that maternal deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a systematic way. The bill requires the Team to (i) develop and revise as necessary operating procedures for maternal death reviews, including identification of cases to be reviewed and procedures for coordinating among the agencies and professionals involved; (ii) improve the identification of, and data collection and record keeping related to, causes of maternal deaths; (iii) recommend components of programs to increase awareness and prevention of, and education about, maternal deaths; and (iv) recommend training to improve the review of maternal deaths. The bill also requires the Team to compile triennial statistical data regarding maternal deaths and to make such data available to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill provides that information and records obtained or created by the Team and portions of meetings of the Team at which individual maternal deaths are discussed shall be confidential."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2546"
citation: "Virginia HB 2546 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Health", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9721e1c-4f53-450b-b943-80c7c82487be"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2546"
source_hash: "1f14b10be845b1735532c2f21e940977b9da3e5e9ac4aa17d9a141aafdc953a2"
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 2546 (2019) — Maternal Mortality Review Team; established, investigations.

. Establishes the Maternal Death Review Team (the Team) to develop and implement procedures to ensure that maternal deaths occurring in the Commonwealth are analyzed in a systematic way. The bill requires the Team to (i) develop and revise as necessary operating procedures for maternal death reviews, including identification of cases to be reviewed and procedures for coordinating among the agencies and professionals involved; (ii) improve the identification of, and data collection and record keeping related to, causes of maternal deaths; (iii) recommend components of programs to increase awareness and prevention of, and education about, maternal deaths; and (iv) recommend training to improve the review of maternal deaths. The bill also requires the Team to compile triennial statistical data regarding maternal deaths and to make such data available to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill provides that information and records obtained or created by the Team and portions of meetings of the Team at which individual maternal deaths are discussed shall be confidential.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0834)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2546)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2546ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2546ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105204D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2546H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102443D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2546)
6. **House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2546ER2)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2546ER2)

## Votes

- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Courts of Justice — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- House concurred in Governor's recommendation — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)
- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102443D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19105204D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2546H1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Rereferred to Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-26** Governor's recommendation received by House
- **2019-04-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-03** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
- **2019-04-03** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2019-04-03** Reenrolled
- **2019-04-03** Reenrolled bill text (HB2546ER2)
- **2019-04-03** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2019-04-03** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2019-04-03** Enacted, Chapter 834 (effective 7/1/19) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9721e1c-4f53-450b-b943-80c7c82487be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).