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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure."
+description: "Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure. Directs the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to promulgate regulations that establish requirements of licensure for funeral directors and embalmers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 1044"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1044 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-17"
+last_action: "2020-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c80c4f23-9be4-4ef1-bf0a-1ca08d5a8aae"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB1044"
+source_hash: "315eaef9fcfb72612f692e3a9b724062eaa6b88c83347ad0dea01daf7c19ae36"
+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 1044 (2020) — Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure.
+
+Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure. Directs the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to promulgate regulations that establish requirements of licensure for funeral directors and embalmers.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0943)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0943)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1044ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044S1)
+5. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S2)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044S2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (76-Y 18-N) — **75–18** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
+- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
+- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
+- George L. Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
+- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
+- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
+- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 20104415D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-17** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-29** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-29** Committee substitute printed 20107052D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2020-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S1)
+- **2020-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-03** Floor substitute printed 20107505D-S2 (McPike)
+- **2020-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S2)
+- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-03** Committee substitute rejected 20107052D-S1
+- **2020-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2020-02-03** Substitute by Senator McPike agreed to 20107505D-S2
+- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1044S2
+- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-28** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-03-02** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed House (76-Y 18-N) `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** VOTE: Passage (76-Y 18-N)
+- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044ER)
+- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-07** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 943 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c80c4f23-9be4-4ef1-bf0a-1ca08d5a8aae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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