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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public health practitioners; requirements for issuing prescriptions, exceptions."
+description: "Public health practitioners; requirements for issuing prescriptions, exceptions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1914"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1914 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charniele L. Herring"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-04"
+last_action: "2019-03-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db46efa0-1eec-4b9c-bd54-ab3e249daccf"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1914"
+source_hash: "cbcd6862e008565add641f2188f8e4d1808ec284c02bc1ff6ff3e781dd2c3961"
+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 1914 (2019) — Public health practitioners; requirements for issuing prescriptions, exceptions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0335)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1914ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1914ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101794D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1914)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101794D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-04** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-28** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
+- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 335 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db46efa0-1eec-4b9c-bd54-ab3e249daccf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+