republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-648.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prescription Monitoring Program; information disclosed to Emergency Department Care Coord. Program."
description: "Prescription Monitoring Program; information disclosed to the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program; redisclosure. Provides for the mutual exchange of information between the Prescription Monitoring Program and the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program and clarifies that nothing shall prohibit the redisclosure of confidential information from the Prescription Monitoring Program or any data or reports produced by the Prescription Monitoring Program disclosed to the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program to a prescriber in an electronic report generated by the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program so long as the electronic report complies with relevant federal law and regulations governing privacy of health information. This bill is identical to SB 575."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 648"
citation: "Virginia HB 648 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris L. Hurst"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35492657-3472-4642-a23a-3a2b8b67bd49"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB648"
source_hash: "d5501e3d61b28ebf92dd8661fc4ba44957bb430d99b078925d064163a89aee92"
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 648 (2020) — Prescription Monitoring Program; information disclosed to Emergency Department Care Coord. Program.

Prescription Monitoring Program; information disclosed to the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program; redisclosure. Provides for the mutual exchange of information between the Prescription Monitoring Program and the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program and clarifies that nothing shall prohibit the redisclosure of confidential information from the Prescription Monitoring Program or any data or reports produced by the Prescription Monitoring Program disclosed to the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program to a prescriber in an electronic report generated by the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program so long as the electronic report complies with relevant federal law and regulations governing privacy of health information. This bill is identical to SB 575.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1066)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1066)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB648ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB648ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB648)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB648)

## Votes

- VOTE: REJECTED (2-Y 97-N 1-A) — **2–96** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on amendments (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate acceded to request for second conference committee (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris L. Hurst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105052D `introduction`
- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-21** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-27** VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB648)
- **2020-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-01-28** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-17** Reading of amendments waived
- **2020-02-17** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-02-17** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2020-02-17** Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-19** Senate amendments rejected by House (2-Y 97-N 1-A)
- **2020-02-19** VOTE: REJECTED (2-Y 97-N 1-A)
- **2020-02-21** Senate insisted on amendments (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-21** Senate requested conference committee
- **2020-02-24** House acceded to request
- **2020-02-24** Conferees appointed by House
- **2020-02-25** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2020-03-05** Amended by conference committee
- **2020-03-05** Speaker ruled conference report not germane
- **2020-03-05** House requested second conference committee
- **2020-03-05** Senate acceded to request for second conference committee (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-05** Second conferees appointed by Senate
- **2020-03-05** Second conferees appointed by House
- **2020-03-07** Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
- **2020-03-07** Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-07** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-18** Enrolled
- **2020-03-18** Signed by President
- **2020-03-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB648ER)
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- **2020-03-20** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1066 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35492657-3472-4642-a23a-3a2b8b67bd49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).