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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medicine, Board of; an attorney is allowed to serve as executive director for the Board."
+description: "Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications.Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Boardof Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Boardof Medicine must be a physician."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 964"
+citation: "Virginia HB 964 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rodney T. Willett"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-04-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed360afa-720a-4f83-843e-bad0a74b0de6"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB964"
+source_hash: "08e82decff16d178e62ff8267518ded17791f068fb915788500bb36661f35ffd"
+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 964 (2024) — Medicine, Board of; an attorney is allowed to serve as executive director for the Board.
+
+Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications.Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Boardof Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Boardof Medicine must be a physician.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0463** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0463)
+2. **HB964ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB964ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102311D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB964)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (71-Y 26-N) — **70–26** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Health and Human Services (15-Y 7-N) — **15–7** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — **36–4** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — **6–2** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102311D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB964)
+- **2024-01-19** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
+- **2024-01-30** Reported from Health and Human Services (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-05** Read third time and passed House (71-Y 26-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-05** VOTE: Passage (71-Y 26-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2024-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-22** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-26** Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-02-29** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB964ER) `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** Impact statement from DPB (HB964ER)
+- **2024-02-29** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-03** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 463 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed360afa-720a-4f83-843e-bad0a74b0de6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+