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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Controlled substances; limits on prescriptions containing opioids."
+description: "Eliminates the surgical or invasive procedure treatment exception to the requirement that a prescriber request certain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) when initiating a new course of treatment that includes prescribing opioids for a human patient to last more than seven days. Under current law, a prescriber is not required to request certain information from the PMP for opioid prescriptions of up to 14 days to a patient as part of treatment for a surgical or invasive procedure. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1173"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1173 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Narcotics and Drugs", "Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-10"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0bb9684-80e5-454c-bf66-c548aa87f36f"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1173"
+source_hash: "d9867a44be169bd0f9a8d8095b7e0cab3659995c91a6899754464a52e63a8501"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1173 (2018) — Controlled substances; limits on prescriptions containing opioids.
+
+Eliminates the surgical or invasive procedure treatment exception to the requirement that a prescriber request certain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) when initiating a new course of treatment that includes prescribing opioids for a human patient to last more than seven days. Under current law, a prescriber is not required to request certain information from the PMP for opioid prescriptions of up to 14 days to a patient as part of treatment for a surgical or invasive procedure. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1173ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1173ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103269D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1173)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103269D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-18** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 102 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0bb9684-80e5-454c-bf66-c548aa87f36f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+