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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB214	Pass	Common interest communities; residents providing certain services exemption. Provides that a resident of a common interest community association who provides bookkeeping, billing, or recordkeeping services for such community for compensation shall be... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839)
VA	SB119	Veto	Drug manufacturers; permitting and registration; certain conditions related to 340B-covered drugs. Requires a drug manufacturer, as a condition of obtaining a permit or as a condition of registration or renewal of registration, to certify that it doe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB576	Veto	Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subcontractors to the contracting parties and those who engage in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	SB313	Veto	Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Board for Contractors; required regulations and disclosures. Requires the Board for Contractors to adopt regulations requiring all Class A, B, and C residential contractors, excluding subco... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB585	Veto	Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools; penalties. Provides that no home-based firearms dealer, as defined in the bill, shall be engaged in the business of selling, trading, or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail within 1.5 mil... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	SB274	Veto	Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB570	Veto	Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB455	Veto	Possession of an item containing residue of a controlled substance; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for the offense of possession of an item containing residue of a controlled substance. The bill provides that upon motion of the attorney for t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB519	Veto	Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB738	Pass	Space Force; extension of certain benefits and privileges for persons serving in a branch of the Armed Forces. Amends several provisions of law related to certain benefits and privileges available to persons serving or having served in a branch of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817)
VA	HB1190	Veto	Board for Contractors; offering or approving exams; language counterparts. Provides that any exam offered by the Board for Contractors that averaged over 50 administrations per year over the preceding four-year period shall be made available in any l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	SB716	Veto	Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardle... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Passed by for the day
VA	HB516	Pass	Prescription drugs; labels; blind and disabled users. Requires pharmacies to notify each person who identifies themselves or a patient as blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that an accessibl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725)
VA	HB1354	Pass	Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill. Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawfu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748)
VA	HB1337	Pass	Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654)
VA	SB463	Pass	Board of Accountancy; powers and duties. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit of the Board of Accountancy and amends several Code provisions relating to the Board. The bill changes the Secretariat of the Board from the Secretary of Commerce an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677)
VA	HB1499	Pass	Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754)
VA	SB155	Pass	Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Virginia Health Care Career and Technical Training and Education Fund created; psychological practitioner defined; educational requirements for nursing faculty. Modifies the enabling legislation for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761)
VA	SB513	Pass	Funeral services; transportation protection agreements. Defines "transportation protection agreement" as an agreement that provides for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to transportation of human remains or cremated... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598)
VA	SB403	Pass	Behavioral health technicians; behavioral health technician assistants; qualified mental health professionals; qualified mental health professional-trainees; scope of practice, supervision, and qualifications. Adds behavioral health technicians and b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595)
VA	HB1278	Pass	Auricular acupuncture; use of the five needle protocol. Allows any person to engage in the five needle auricular acupuncture protocol (5NP), a standardized protocol wherein up to five needles are inserted into the external human ear to provide relief... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548)
VA	HB324	Pass	PA Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the PA Licensure Compact. The Compact permits eligible physician assistants to practice in Compact-participating states, provided that they are licensed in at least one participating ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
VA	HB426	Pass	Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Directs the Board of Counseling to recognize the National Counselor Examination as a valid examination for licensure as a professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Vir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)
VA	HB342	Pass	Naloxone or other opioid antagonists; possession and administration by state agencies. Requires state agencies to possess naloxone or other opioid antagonists used for overdose reversal to a person who is believed to be experiencing or about to exper... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440)
VA	HB964	Pass	Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications. Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Board of Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Board of Medicine must be a physician. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463)
VA	HB732	Pass	Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451)
VA	HB511	Pass	Out-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; assisted living facilities. Adds assisted living facilities to the list of eligible health care employers for which a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or regist... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)
VA	HB971	Pass	Nurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404)
VA	HB995	Pass	Board of Medicine; temporary licensure of physicians licensed in a foreign country. Permits the Board of Medicine to issue a provisional license to a physician licensed in a foreign country for no more than two years, then a subsequent renewable two-... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464)
VA	HB1035	Pass	Places of public accommodation; possession and administration of epinephrine. Permits every place of public accommodation, defined in relevant law as all places or businesses offering or holding out to the general public goods, services, privileges, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465)
VA	HB1039	Pass	Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon; school board policies; donations. Permits any local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of undesignated na... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466)
VA	SB568	Pass	Crisis stabilization services; facilities licensed by Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; nursing homes; dispensing and administration of drugs; emergency. Permits facilities licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513)
VA	SB726	Pass	Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519)
VA	HB188	Pass	Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274)
VA	HB349	Pass	Advanced registered medication aides; certified nursing facilities; work group; report. Requires advanced registered medication aides who administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in a certified nursing facility licensed... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284)
VA	HB503	Pass	Department of Medical Assistance Services; credentialed addiction treatment professionals; licensed behavior analysts; definition. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend in its regulations the definition of "credentialed addic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288)
VA	HB605	Pass	Dental hygienists; remote supervision. Extends from 90 days to 180 days the period during which a dental hygienist practicing under remote supervision may continue to treat a patient, after which period the supervising dentist shall conduct an examin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295)
VA	HB848	Pass	Veterinary medicine; traineeships. Allows any veterinary medicine licensure applicant enrolled in a traineeship program to engage in the limited practice of veterinary medicine, as that term is defined by the Board of Veterinary Medicine, under the d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307)
VA	SB111	Pass	Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I, II, IV, and V of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added v... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228)
VA	SB154	Pass	Advance Health Care Planning Registry; amendment of regulations. Amends the list of documents that may be submitted to the Advance Health Care Directive Registry to include any other document that supports advance health care planning. The bill also ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)
VA	HB1389	Pass	Practice of athletic training; definition. Amends the definition of "practice of athletic training" to allow the practice of athletic training to be conducted in an inpatient or outpatient setting. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0222)
VA	SB521	Pass	Preneed funeral contracts; declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee. Defines "declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee" as an optional and declinable fee agreed to by a preneed funeral contract purchaser, if offered by a seller, for which the cost of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247)
VA	HB652	Pass	Funeral arrangements; disputes between next of kin; proof of next of kin status. Establishes a dispute resolution process for disagreements about what persons are responsible for a decedent's funeral and the disposition for such decedent's remains. T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200)
VA	HB1067	Pass	Pharmacy technicians; expansion of allowable duties. Allows pharmacy technicians to clarify quantity or refills for a prescription issued for a Schedule VI drug. Current law only allows pharmacy technicians to accept refill authorizations. The bill a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0214)
VA	HB42	Pass	Civil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0096)
VA	HB225	Pass	Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. The Compact increases public access to dental services by permitting eligible licensed dentists and dental hygienists to prac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0101)
VA	SB133	Pass	Physician assistants; practice agreement exemption. Allows physician assistants employed by a hospital or employed in certain facilities operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or in federally qualified health cente... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116)
VA	SB629	Pass	Civil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0126)
VA	HB436	Pass	Revocation of advance directive; divorce or annulment; custody or visitation. Provides that the authority of an agent to make health care decisions pursuant to an advance directive shall be revoked upon the filing of either (i) an action for the divo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0081)
VA	SB22	Pass	Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. The Compact increases public access to dental services by permitting eligible licensed dentists and dental hygienists to prac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031)