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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Veterinary Medicine, Board of; traineeships."
+description: "Board of Veterinary Medicine; traineeships. Expands eligibility for veterinary traineeship programs to include (i) graduates of an American Veterinary Medical Association-accredited college of veterinary medicine who have not yet passed the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE); and (ii) registrants in the Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG) program who have taken and received a passing score on the NAVLE and have completed all steps of the ECFVG program except for the clinical proficiency examination."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 331"
+citation: "Virginia SB 331 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2026-01-13"
+last_action: "2026-04-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6efe305-1e4b-48d6-be67-cbc26847bbbf"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB331"
+source_hash: "38384ce8d093d0bf90b50643df134a3dc3cd9c04c530e15dde3033ef0a1f7e24"
+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 SB 331 (2026) — Veterinary Medicine, Board of; traineeships.
+
+Board of Veterinary Medicine; traineeships. Expands eligibility for veterinary traineeship programs to include (i) graduates of an American Veterinary Medical Association-accredited college of veterinary medicine who have not yet passed the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE); and (ii) registrants in the Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG) program who have taken and received a passing score on the NAVLE and have completed all steps of the ECFVG program except for the clinical proficiency examination.
+
+## 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/1089647.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217434.PDF)
+3. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1132233.PDF)
+4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1188313.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- H VOTE: — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health and Human Services — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100749D `filing, introduction`
+- **2026-01-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-21** Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-29** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB331)
+- **2026-01-30** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-30** Senate subcommittee offered
+- **2026-02-05** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-05** Senate committee offered
+- **2026-02-06** Committee substitute printed 26107057D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2026-02-06** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
+- **2026-02-06** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-06** Passed by for the day
+- **2026-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-09** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
+- **2026-02-09** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote) `substitution`
+- **2026-02-10** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB331)
+- **2026-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2026-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-16** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
+- **2026-02-24** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-27** Passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-04** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB331ER) `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB331)
+- **2026-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 344 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6efe305-1e4b-48d6-be67-cbc26847bbbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+