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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV."
+description: "Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I and IV of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1587"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1587 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-01-02"
+last_action: "2025-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89433fb5-eaa7-4c20-8867-a65d350f37bf"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1587"
+source_hash: "03c3c87eb81ae02d6b2dceb2dbb0ca5275ffd81012670d69eba19362a4930af1"
+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 1587 (2025) — Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV.
+
+Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I and IV of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012115.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071302.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060886.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102313D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-02** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-13** Impact statement from VCSC (HB1587)
+- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1587)
+- **2025-01-16** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-22** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-22** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2025-01-22** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-07** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
+- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1587ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1587)
+- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 118 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89433fb5-eaa7-4c20-8867-a65d350f37bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+