• SB280 receives a public hearing in the House Courts of Justice on March 4. The House committee votes via unrecorded voice vote to carry the bill over to the 2025 session, ending its chances of passing this year. Nevertheless, Virginia made history in 2024 by pushing a Death with Dignity bill further than ever before, thanks to the advocacy of our chief sponsor, Ghazala Hashmi, and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton.
• SB280 is voted out of the Senate and crossover to the House of Delegates with a 21-19 in favor vote. This is the furthest a Virginia Death with Dignity bill has ever gotten to passage.
• SB280 passes its third public hearing in the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee with a vote of 10- 5 in favor. The bill awaits a Senate floor vote.
• Virginia’s HB858 has a hearing February 8 in the House Health and Human Services Committee.
• On February, 1 HB858 receives a public hearing in the House Health and Human Services Committee-Health Subcommittee. The bill passes with a 5-3 in favor vote.
• SB280 receives a public hearing on January 25 in Senate Education and Health Committee. The bill moves forward with a 8Y-6N vote, and is rereferred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations.
• On January 23rd, SB280 receives a public hearing in the Senate Education and Health – Health Subcommittee. The vote receives a 3Y-2N vote and is referred to a full Committee vote on 1/25/2024.
• After the public hearing for HB858, the bill is referred from the Courts of Justice to the Committee on Health and Human Services by voice vote. The bill is also been assigned to the Health subcommittee.
• SB280 has a public hearing scheduled on January 23rd 
• In January, the Virginia legislature introduce SB280/HB858. SB280 is referred to the Committee on Education and Health and HB858 is referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

On January 6, 2023, SB930 is introduced and has been sent to the Committee on Health and Education. The bill fails to be voted out of the Senate Health and Education Committee.

SB668 is referred from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Senate Education and Health Committee, where it receives a public hearing. A tie vote stalls the bill and it does not pass.

The Virginia Medical Aid in Dying Act (HB1649), is heard in the House of Delegates Committee for the Courts of Justice. The bill is “continued to 2021” by a voice vote in February, then left at the Courts of Justice on December 4. The bill sits on a list of “failed legislation” with the House Courts of Justice in the 2021 session.

Virginia State Delegate Kaye Kory (D-38) introduces the Virginia Death with Dignity Act (HB2713). The bill does not advance. 

The Virginia Joint Commission on Healthcare publishes, “Medical Aid in Dying: A Final Report.” Following a period of public comment, the Commission votes 10 to 6 to take no further action.