VA SB1177 | 2025 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 27 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-28 - Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

Certificate of public need; exception; critical access hospitals; swing beds. Exempts from the requirement for a certificate of public need hospitals using up to 10 inpatient hospital beds per day as swing beds for the furnishing of services of the type that, if furnished by a nursing home or certified nursing facility, would constitute skilled care services. The bill allows critical access hospitals to calculate the 10-swing-bed per day limitation as an average over the fiscal year of the hospital with certain exceptions. Under current law, critical access hospitals may only use up to 10 percent of beds as swing beds without requiring a certificate of public need. The bill directs the State Commissioner of Health to collect the hospital data pursuant to the provisions of the bill and make it publicly available. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028.

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Title

Critical access hospitals; swing beds.

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Roll Calls

2025-01-28 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-24 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2025-01-23 - Senate - Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2025-01-28SenateRead third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2025-01-27SenateEngrossed by Senate
2025-01-27SenateRead second time
2025-01-24SenatePassed by for the day
2025-01-24SenateConstitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
2025-01-24SenateRules suspended
2025-01-23SenateReported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2025-01-22SenateFiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1177)
2025-01-21SenateAssigned Education sub: Health
2025-01-07SenateReferred to Committee on Education and Health
2025-01-07SenatePrefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103595D

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