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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1098: Protected health care activity; prohibition on extradition.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1098 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Protected health care activity; prohibition on extradition. Primary sponsor: Ghazala F. Hashmi. Most recent recorded action (February 18, 2025): Left in Courts of Justice.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Protected health care activities; prohibition on extradition for certain crimes. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of law of another state shall be recognized by the Governor if such alleged violation involves protected health care activity within the Commonwealth unless the alleged criminal violation would also constitute a criminal offense under the laws of the Commonwealth. Protected health care activity is defined in the bill as the provision or receipt, attempted provision or receipt, or assistance or attempted assistance in the provision or receipt of any health care that is lawful in the Commonwealth by a health care provider licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth and physically present in the Commonwealth.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ghazala F. HashmiPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Courts of Justice
  2. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1098)
  3. Impact statement from VCSC (SB1098)
  4. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  5. Read first time
  6. Placed on Calendar
  7. Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
  8. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
  9. Rules suspended
  10. Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute
  11. Senator Hashmi, Ghazala F. Substitute agreed to
  12. Education and Health Substitute rejected

Showing 12 most recent of 34 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source