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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medicine, Board of; membership, removal of residence requirements."
+description: "Board of Medicine; membership; removal of residence requirements. Removes the requirement that the Board of Medicine have one physician from each congressional district and instead requires that 11 physicians be on the Board. The bill removes references to change of residence provisions for physician Board members."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 1139"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1139 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark C. Downey"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2026-01-14"
+last_action: "2026-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5a3763b-3887-475b-9bf9-9da00d9bb3e8"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1139"
+source_hash: "a1bf1bb4657d0ebc571e773ad7588eadb3b783a7d12528c74bb201b981880fb9"
+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 1139 (2026) — Medicine, Board of; membership, removal of residence requirements.
+
+Board of Medicine; membership; removal of residence requirements. Removes the requirement that the Board of Medicine have one physician from each congressional district and instead requires that 11 physicians be on the Board. The bill removes references to change of residence provisions for physician Board members.
+
+## 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/1088329.PDF)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1214667.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education and Health — **10–5** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health and Human Services — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+- H VOTE: — **63–35** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage R — **24–16** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark C. Downey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103443D `filing, introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1139)
+- **2026-01-23** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 1-N)
+- **2026-02-03** Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-09** Read third time and passed House (63-Y 35-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2026-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-20** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-26** Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
+- **2026-02-27** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-02** Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N 0-A) `passage`
+- **2026-03-30** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-30** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1139ER) `passage`
+- **2026-03-30** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2026-03-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1139)
+- **2026-03-31** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-03-31** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-31** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 741 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5a3763b-3887-475b-9bf9-9da00d9bb3e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+