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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Abortion; expands who can perform in first trimester, informed consent required."
+description: "Provision of abortion; informed consent; regulations. Eliminates the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, the provision of specified information, and the offer to review certain printed materials, required under existing law to effect a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill retains the requirement that a physician obtain a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to performing any abortion. The bill expands who can perform first trimester abortions to any person licensed by the Board of Medicine as a physician's assistant and acting within such person's scope of practice or any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner acting within the nurse practitioner's such person's scope of practice. The bill removes a provision classifying facilities that perform five or more first trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 733"
+citation: "Virginia SB 733 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer L. McClellan"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2020-01-07"
+last_action: "2020-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/261f6312-68f6-4420-a28c-ad3130891377"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB733"
+source_hash: "096c2fbcd0123e8746394fc096e20ace491a27b69c9baf91a98a1234eff8a0ec"
+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 733 (2020) — Abortion; expands who can perform in first trimester, informed consent required.
+
+Provision of abortion; informed consent; regulations. Eliminates the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, the provision of specified information, and the offer to review certain printed materials, required under existing law to effect a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill retains the requirement that a physician obtain a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to performing any abortion. The bill expands who can perform first trimester abortions to any person licensed by the Board of Medicine as a physician's assistant and acting within such person's scope of practice or any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner acting within the nurse practitioner's such person's scope of practice. The bill removes a provision classifying facilities that perform five or more first trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0899)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0899)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB733ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB733ER)
+3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB733ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB733ES1)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB733H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB733H1)
+5. **Impact statement from DPB (SB733S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB733S1)
+6. **SB733S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB733S2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — **9–6** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (53-Y 45-N) — **52–45** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee substitute agreed to (20-Y 19-N) — **20–19** (pass) · upper
+- Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N) — **20–20** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — **13–9** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) — **20–20** (fail) · upper
+- House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N) — **20–20** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
+- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
+- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard L. Saslaw — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102740D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB733)
+- **2020-01-23** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-23** Incorporates SB21 (Saslaw)
+- **2020-01-23** Incorporates SB68 (Locke)
+- **2020-01-23** Committee substitute printed 20106530D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2020-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-27** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB733S1)
+- **2020-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-28** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2020-01-28** Committee substitute agreed to (20-Y 19-N)
+- **2020-01-28** 20106530D-S1
+- **2020-01-28** Floor substitute printed 20106576D-S2 (Newman)
+- **2020-01-28** Substitute by Senator Newman withdrawn 20106576D-S2
+- **2020-01-28** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2020-01-28** Amendment by Senator McClellan agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-01-28** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB733ES1
+- **2020-01-28** Printed as engrossed 20106530D-ES1
+- **2020-01-29** Impact statement from DPB (SB733ES1)
+- **2020-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-01-29** Chair votes Yes
+- **2020-02-03** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-24** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-24** Committee substitute printed 20108469D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2020-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB733H1)
+- **2020-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-27** Committee substitute agreed to 20108469D-H1
+- **2020-02-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB733H1
+- **2020-02-27** Pending question ordered
+- **2020-02-27** Passed House with substitute (53-Y 45-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-27** VOTE: Passage (53-Y 45-N)
+- **2020-03-02** House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N)
+- **2020-03-02** Chair votes Yes
+- **2020-03-02** Title replaced 20108469D-H1
+- **2020-03-02** Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-02** House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N)
+- **2020-03-02** Chair votes Yes
+- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB733ER)
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-06** 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 899 (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/261f6312-68f6-4420-a28c-ad3130891377`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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