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+type: "Bill"
+title: "International licensure and certification; regulations."
+description: "Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; international licensure and certification; regulations. Directs the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to promulgate regulations allowing the issuance of a license or certification to any applicant who holds a comparable international license or certification issued by another country. This bill incorporates HB 2251 and is identical to SB 1188."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1940"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1940 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rodney T. Willett"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-06"
+last_action: "2025-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a98d5f44-be21-4ca9-96a7-10466a493994"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1940"
+source_hash: "2b9e932cd62ca690f01a02ee47b6d4303a96089a5016bf5cd0183b65bcc17b8b"
+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 1940 (2025) — International licensure and certification; regulations.
+
+Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; international licensure and certification; regulations. Directs the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to promulgate regulations allowing the issuance of a license or certification to any applicant who holds a comparable international license or certification issued by another country. This bill incorporates HB 2251 and is identical to SB 1188.
+
+## 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/1014121.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071631.PDF)
+3. **General Laws Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032978.PDF)
+4. **HGL Sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1028092.HTML)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057218.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House (94-Y 5-N) — **94–5** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)
+- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
+- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
+- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
+- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104520D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-20** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) `substitution`
+- **2025-01-28** Incorporates HB2251(Maldonado)
+- **2025-01-28** Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-28** Committee substitute printed 25105962D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2025-01-29** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1940)
+- **2025-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-31** General Laws Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-01-31** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-17** Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1940ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1940)
+- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 150 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a98d5f44-be21-4ca9-96a7-10466a493994`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+