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type: "Bill"
title: "Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospice facilities; public health emergency, etc."
description: "Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19, each nursing home, certified nursing facility, and hospice establish a protocol to allow each patient to receive visits, consistent with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as directed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Board of Health. The bill contains an emergency clause and requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the act to be effective within 280 days of its enactment. This bill is identical to SB 5042."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020specialI"
identifier: "HB 5041"
citation: "Virginia HB 5041 (2020specialI)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-08-17"
last_action: "2020-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22caa1fc-294a-4771-b7e7-eb7f834fe8d8"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5041"
source_hash: "d177ebf5b672900c920dd18dec76b9afa9e70a5455785777f684b793208e93f0"
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 5041 (2020specialI) — Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospice facilities; public health emergency, etc.
Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19, each nursing home, certified nursing facility, and hospice establish a protocol to allow each patient to receive visits, consistent with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as directed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Board of Health. The bill contains an emergency clause and requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the act to be effective within 280 days of its enactment. This bill is identical to SB 5042.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+CHAP0010)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5041ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5041ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB5041EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5041EH1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB5041)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5041)
5. **Impact statement from DPB (HB5041H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5041H1)
## Votes
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage Emergency (94-Y 0-N) — **930** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments (35-Y 0-N) — **350** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **350** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendments (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-08-17** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200220D `introduction`
- **2020-08-17** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB5041)
- **2020-08-25** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-08-25** Committee substitute printed 20201010D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-08-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-08-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-08-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB5041H1)
- **2020-08-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-08-27** Committee substitute agreed to 20201010D-H1
- **2020-08-27** Emergency clause added
- **2020-08-27** Amendments by Delegate Head agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2020-08-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB5041EH1
- **2020-08-27** Printed as engrossed 20201010D-EH1
- **2020-08-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB5041EH1)
- **2020-08-27** Engrossed bill reprinted 20201010D-EH1
- **2020-08-28** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-08-28** VOTE: Passage Emergency (94-Y 0-N)
- **2020-09-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-09-02** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-22** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-09-22** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- **2020-09-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-09-25** Reading of amendments waived
- **2020-09-25** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-09-25** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- **2020-09-25** Passed Senate with amendments (35-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-09-25** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- **2020-09-25** Passed Senate with amendments (36-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-09-29** Passed by for the day
- **2020-10-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-10-02** Senate amendments agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- **2020-10-02** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- **2020-10-07** Enrolled
- **2020-10-07** Impact statement from DPB (HB5041ER)
- **2020-10-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-10-07** Signed by President
- **2020-10-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
- **2020-10-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
- **2020-10-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 10 (effective 10/21/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22caa1fc-294a-4771-b7e7-eb7f834fe8d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).