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type: "Bill"
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title: "Comprehensive plan; social determinants of health."
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description: "Comprehensive plan; social determinants of health. Encourages localities to utilize relevant and available data and research related to social determinants of health to consider how the locality's adopted comprehensive plan will impact the locality's overall public health and access to health care services."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "HB 257"
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citation: "Virginia HB 257 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Shelly A. Simonds"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2026-01-09"
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last_action: "2026-04-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd198047-6e22-4d1e-96c0-1717a0a114f3"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB257"
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source_hash: "8ea6c500c4cbb1bcdcf9a6731d3455765f9c4a0fdba280587b00f4e804bbc7c9"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 257 (2026) — Comprehensive plan; social determinants of health.
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Comprehensive plan; social determinants of health. Encourages localities to utilize relevant and available data and research related to social determinants of health to consider how the locality's adopted comprehensive plan will impact the locality's overall public health and access to health care services.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1083299.PDF)
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2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217649.PDF)
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3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1199878.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Passage R — **21–19** (pass) · upper
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- H VOTE: — **68–30** (pass) · lower
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Local Government — **8–7** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **19–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100530D `filing, introduction`
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- **2026-01-09** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-28** Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
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- **2026-01-30** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2026-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2026-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-05** Read third time and passed House (68-Y 30-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
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- **2026-02-06** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
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- **2026-03-02** Reported from Local Government (8-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended
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- **2026-03-03** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
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- **2026-03-03** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
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- **2026-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-04** Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) `passage`
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- **2026-03-11** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2026-03-11** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB257ER) `passage`
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- **2026-03-11** Signed by President `passage`
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- **2026-03-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
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- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 375 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
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- **2026-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375)
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd198047-6e22-4d1e-96c0-1717a0a114f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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