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type: "Bill"
title: "Medical care facility data reporting; value of charity care, gross patient charges, report."
description: "Medical care facility data reporting; value of charity care. Removes certain limitations on the meaning of \"reviewable service\" as it relates to data reporting requirements for medical care facilities and specifies that the value of charity care for such reporting shall be based on gross patient charges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 606"
citation: "Virginia HB 606 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney T. Willett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9129c26a-8cc0-4485-8ee3-d9f731a32fc5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB606"
source_hash: "652d0717bcec0de1b843a77c1bb83084aef7a8aeafb60f189a413af43ed86405"
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 606 (2026) — Medical care facility data reporting; value of charity care, gross patient charges, report.
Medical care facility data reporting; value of charity care. Removes certain limitations on the meaning of "reviewable service" as it relates to data reporting requirements for medical care facilities and specifies that the value of charity care for such reporting shall be based on gross patient charges.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1085139.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217850.PDF)
3. **Delegate Willett Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1108077.PDF)
4. **Finance and Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1203889.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1213604.PDF)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **100** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reconsider R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute — **140** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **390** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **8810** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **935** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101247D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-13** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-21** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2026-01-28** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB606)
- **2026-01-29** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Floor substitute printed 26106695D-H1 (Willett)
- **2026-02-02** Floor offered Delegate Willett Substitute
- **2026-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-03** Delegate Willett Floor substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-03** Engrossed by House - floor substitute
- **2026-02-04** Read third time and passed House (88-Y 10-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB606)
- **2026-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-09** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Committee substitute printed 26109441D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-03-10** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-10** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- **2026-03-11** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-03-11** Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (39-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-11** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Senate substitute agreed to by House (93-Y 5-N 0-A) `substitution`
- **2026-03-12** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB606)
- **2026-03-30** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-30** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB606ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB606)
- **2026-03-31** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-31** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 408 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9129c26a-8cc0-4485-8ee3-d9f731a32fc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).