republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-763.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures."
description: "Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring the use of a smoke evacuation system for all planned surgical procedures. The bill defines \"smoke evacuation system\" as smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter, and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and to prevent surgical smoke from making ocular contact or contact with a person's respiratory tract. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 537."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 763"
citation: "Virginia HB 763 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc927b3f-2100-4148-9089-daa488609d54"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB763"
source_hash: "485452dafa04e1a16a4773fcbf99da25c3f5eeb7f789d7a61cfe81d617ec83c1"
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 763 (2024) — Hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures.

Board of Health; hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require that every hospital where surgical procedures are performed adopt a policy requiring the use of a smoke evacuation system for all planned surgical procedures. The bill defines "smoke evacuation system" as smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter, and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and to prevent surgical smoke from making ocular contact or contact with a person's respiratory tract. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 537.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0207** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0207)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24105653D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB763H1)
3. **HB763ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB763ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103393D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB763)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103393D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB763)
- **2024-01-19** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-02-06** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-06** Committee substitute printed 24105653D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB763H1)
- **2024-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** Committee substitute agreed to 24105653D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-09** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB763H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-12** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-12** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB763ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Impact statement from DPB (HB763ER)
- **2024-02-29** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-03** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/25) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc927b3f-2100-4148-9089-daa488609d54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).