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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Nurse practitioners; patient care team provider, autonomous practice."
+description: "Nurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse practitioners to attest that a nurse practitioner may be qualified to practice without a practice agreement. The bill permits advanced practice registered nurses to practice without a practice agreement when a patient care team physician is no longer able to serve if such advanced practice registered nurse provides evidence that he meets the requirements to practice without a practice agreement as established by the bill. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health Professions to collect data on the implementation of the bill and make such data publicly available on its website."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 971"
+citation: "Virginia HB 971 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kathy K.L. Tran"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-04-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91b0ebd3-33a8-4b1d-86c3-d64dc9ca82f6"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB971"
+source_hash: "8d1d0203a7243763b4ec6ef7e1c58cb72c02d8ee2d256c384a8992b3b4a72415"
+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 971 (2024) — Nurse practitioners; patient care team provider, autonomous practice.
+
+Nurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse practitioners to attest that a nurse practitioner may be qualified to practice without a practice agreement. The bill permits advanced practice registered nurses to practice without a practice agreement when a patient care team physician is no longer able to serve if such advanced practice registered nurse provides evidence that he meets the requirements to practice without a practice agreement as established by the bill. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health Professions to collect data on the implementation of the bill and make such data publicly available on its website.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0404** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0404+pdf)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 24107300D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB971H1)
+3. **HB971ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB971ER)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104357D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB971)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
+- Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104357D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB971)
+- **2024-01-19** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-07** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2024-02-07** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
+- **2024-02-08** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-08** Committee substitute printed 24107300D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2024-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB971H1)
+- **2024-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 24107300D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB971H1 `substitution`
+- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-21** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-08** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB971ER) `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB971ER)
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-09** 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 494 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91b0ebd3-33a8-4b1d-86c3-d64dc9ca82f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+