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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Prescription Monitoring Program; exemptions, licensed narcotic maintenance treatment programs."
+description: "Prescription Monitoring Program; exemptions; licensed narcotic maintenance treatment programs. Removes dispensing of covered substances within a licensed narcotic maintenance treatment program from the list of circumstances that are exempt from the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill specifies that any reporting of information related to dispensing covered substances within a licensed narcotic maintenance treatment program shall comply with applicable federal laws and regulations. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2649"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2649 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-01-14"
+last_action: "2025-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19349530-ea5e-48ea-b8ef-04ef48346f0f"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2649"
+source_hash: "5a82fa5b04fcd3e994508f413287a6713ef360d7a9be1f18e6a3f6456369b91f"
+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 2649 (2025) — Prescription Monitoring Program; exemptions, licensed narcotic maintenance treatment programs.
+
+Prescription Monitoring Program; exemptions; licensed narcotic maintenance treatment programs. Removes dispensing of covered substances within a licensed narcotic maintenance treatment program from the list of circumstances that are exempt from the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill specifies that any reporting of information related to dispensing covered substances within a licensed narcotic maintenance treatment program shall comply with applicable federal laws and regulations. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
+
+## 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/1020479.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072432.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061216.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-14** Presented and ordered printed 25103899D `introduction`
+- **2025-01-14** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21** Assigned sub: Behavioral Health `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2649)
+- **2025-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-30** Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-05** 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 (HB2649ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2649)
+- **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`
+- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 298 (Effective 07/01/26) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19349530-ea5e-48ea-b8ef-04ef48346f0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+