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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Master barber; creates occupational title, issuance of license."
+description: "Creates the occupational title of master barber and requires the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology to issue a license to practice as a master barber, defined in the bill, to any individual licensed as a barber prior to December 8, 2017, and to an applicant who has successfully (i) completed the educational requirements as required by the Board, (ii) completed the experience requirements as required by the Board, and (iii) passed the examination approved by the Board. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1554"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1554 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Emergency Legislation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-19"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94abebd9-9b8e-47f1-829d-03c70d3290ab"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1554"
+source_hash: "1f7203f47719ce6875bf8188e777c706efd98ab882464e14ad22e474db8590c4"
+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 1554 (2018) — Master barber; creates occupational title, issuance of license.
+
+Creates the occupational title of master barber and requires the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology to issue a license to practice as a master barber, defined in the bill, to any individual licensed as a barber prior to December 8, 2017, and to an applicant who has successfully (i) completed the educational requirements as required by the Board, (ii) completed the experience requirements as required by the Board, and (iii) passed the examination approved by the Board. The bill contains an emergency clause. 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 (HB1554ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1554ER)
+2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18106383D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1554H1)
+3. **House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 18104206D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1554)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House — **94–6** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-19** Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 18104206D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-19** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-09** Committee substitute agreed to 18106383D-H1
+- **2018-02-09** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1554H1
+- **2018-02-12** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 6-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
+- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
+- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 3/9/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94abebd9-9b8e-47f1-829d-03c70d3290ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+