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HB 548STATE · VirginiaIntroduced

Uniform Health Care Decisions Act; civil penalty.

Voted 7/21/2026View source

Summary

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 8.01-413.01, 8.01-622.1, 18.2-369, 32.1-127, 32.1-127.1:03, 32.1-138.1, 32.1-162.16, 32.1-162.18, 32.1-291.21, 32.1-309.1, 32.1-325, 37.2-804.2, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, 37.2-805.1, 37.2-817.01, 37.2-817.1, 37.2-837, 37.2-838, 37.2-1101, 37.2-1108, 53.1-133.04, 54.1-2807.02, 54.1-2818.1, 54.1-2818.5, 54.1-2970.1, 54.1-2987.1, 54.1-2988.1, 54.1-2993.1, 54.1-2995, 63.2-501, 63.2-1605, 64.2-2000, 64.2-2002, 64.2-2003, 64.2-2009, and 64.2-2019 of the Code of Virginia; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 29 of Title 54.1 an article numbered 8.1, consisting of sections numbered 54.1-2993.2 through 54.1-2993.31; and to repeal §§ 54.1-2981, 54.1-2982, 54.1-2983, 54.1-2983.2 through 54.1-2987, 54.1-2988, and 54.1-2989 through 54.1-2993 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Uniform Health Care Decisions Act; civil penalty.

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Docket history

Action history

  1. 7/21/2026Continued from last session
  2. 3/11/2026Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (3/11/2026 2:17 pm)
  3. 3/6/2026Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  4. 3/4/2026Senate committee offered
  5. 3/4/2026Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
  6. 3/2/2026Senate committee offered
  7. 2/19/2026Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB548)
  8. 2/18/2026Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  9. 2/18/2026Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  10. 2/17/2026Read third time and passed House (62-Y 34-N 0-A)