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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: "SB 632"
+citation: "Virginia SB 632 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Siobhan S. Dunnavant"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-01-10"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4b393de-53a2-48b6-a395-98a2385f2a03"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB632"
+source_hash: "e25073bd181f03719b31c6df5e379700955ce66a07652c4308724b239a4045cb"
+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 632 (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. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB632ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB632ER)
+2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101945D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB632)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101945D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **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
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 106 (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/c4b393de-53a2-48b6-a395-98a2385f2a03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+