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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mortuary science education; practical experience required."
+description: "Requires every public institution of higher education that offers a degree in mortuary science to require students to complete practical experience in the areas of funeral service and embalming prior to graduation from such program. The bill also provides that a person who is duly enrolled in a mortuary education program may assist in embalming while under the supervision of a funeral service licensee or embalmer with an active, unrestricted license issued by the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, provided that such embalming occurs in a funeral service establishment licensed by the Board and in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 143"
+citation: "Virginia SB 143 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-12-27"
+last_action: "2018-03-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e895d70-0a0f-44c0-8bf0-79c93513944b"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB143"
+source_hash: "0831a48ac14d10c086562135309eaee9f055cff1f7ab71d4265628510cac0357"
+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 SB 143 (2018) — Mortuary science education; practical experience required.
+
+Requires every public institution of higher education that offers a degree in mortuary science to require students to complete practical experience in the areas of funeral service and embalming prior to graduation from such program. The bill also provides that a person who is duly enrolled in a mortuary education program may assist in embalming while under the supervision of a funeral service licensee or embalmer with an active, unrestricted license issued by the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, provided that such embalming occurs in a funeral service establishment licensed by the Board and in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB143ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB143ER)
+2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101219D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB143)
+3. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 18101219D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB143E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101219D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-27** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-15** Rereferred to Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-29** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2018-01-29** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2018-01-29** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB143E
+- **2018-01-29** Printed as engrossed 18101219D-E
+- **2018-02-05** Placed on Calendar
+- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-22** 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
+- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 186 (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/4e895d70-0a0f-44c0-8bf0-79c93513944b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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