Virginia House Bill 2156 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-05 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Nursing home staffing and care standards; study. Requires regulations establishing the staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum number of hours of direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period, which minimum increases in specified phases from 3.5 hours to 4.1 hours. The bill also directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study issues related to establishment of a minimum number of hours of direct care services for nursing homes as part of its study of the nursing facility workforce authorized by the Commission on December 15, 2020, and to report its findings by December 1, 2021. The regulatory provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022.

Nursing home staffing and care standards; regulations, report.

Del. Vivian Watts [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]
Del. Kathy Tran [D]

2021-01-27 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2021-01-21 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	House	Left in Appropriations
2021-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N)
2021-01-22	House	Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
2021-01-21	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-21	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N)
2021-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2021-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102700D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	127	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB2156
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB2156+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB2156F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H12V0059+HB2156
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H0205V0011+HB2156