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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure."
+description: "Respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure. Provides that a person who has graduated from an accredited respiratory therapy education program may practice with the title \"Respiratory Therapist, License Applicant\" or \"RT-Applicant\" until he has received a failing score on any examination required by the Board of Medicine for licensure or six months from the date of graduation, whichever occurs sooner. The bill contains an emergency clause."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 745"
+citation: "Virginia HB 745 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2022-01-11"
+last_action: "2022-04-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f1ef247-5d5e-4255-b991-acbe5303b7a9"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB745"
+source_hash: "d18b8f471ce11f74a98da5844238fc27a4a75bfff585084f1ae7064913ab6edb"
+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 745 (2022) — Respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure.
+
+Respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure. Provides that a person who has graduated from an accredited respiratory therapy education program may practice with the title "Respiratory Therapist, License Applicant" or "RT-Applicant" until he has received a failing score on any examination required by the Board of Medicine for licensure or six months from the date of graduation, whichever occurs sooner. The bill contains an emergency clause.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0764** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0764)
+2. **HB745ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB745ER)
+3. **HB745ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB745ER2)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101255D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB745)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101255D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB745)
+- **2022-01-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-31** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2022-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-16** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-28** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-03** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-03** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB745ER)
+- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
+- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Governor's recommendation received by House
+- **2022-04-27** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-04-27** Emergency clause added by Governor's recommendation
+- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
+- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted
+- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (HB745ER2)
+- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
+- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
+- **2022-04-27** Enacted, Chapter 764 (effective 4/27/22) `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f1ef247-5d5e-4255-b991-acbe5303b7a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+