VA HB763 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
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
Title
Hospital regulations; use of smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-12 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - House - House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-12 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - House - House: Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-28 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) | |
| 2024-03-28 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/25) | |
| 2024-03-11 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 | |
| 2024-03-11 | House | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 |
| 2024-03-03 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2024-02-29 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2024-02-29 | House | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB763ER) |
| 2024-02-29 | House | Enrolled |
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | Read third time |
| 2024-02-23 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-22 | Senate | Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| 2024-02-13 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| 2024-02-13 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 2024-02-12 | House | VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-12 | House | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-09 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB763H1 |
| 2024-02-09 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 24105653D-H1 |
| 2024-02-09 | House | Read second time |
| 2024-02-08 | House | Read first time |
| 2024-02-06 | House | Committee substitute printed 24105653D-H1 |
| 2024-02-06 | House | Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-01 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-19 | House | Assigned sub: Health |
| 2024-01-09 | House | Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 2024-01-09 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103393D |
Same As/Similar To
SB537 (Similar To) 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249)
