---
type: "Bill"
title: "Neonatal abstinence syndrome; Board of Health to adopt regulations to include as reportable disease."
description: "Requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations to include neonatal abstinence syndrome on the list of diseases that shall be required to be reported. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1467"
citation: "Virginia HB 1467 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas A. \"Tag\" Greason"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2016-12-08"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d089a0d-7d14-4e20-8bb6-28e221f5760b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1467"
source_hash: "3fba131e7cc2f7c627f210e57220d95d14e8dd3101c6ec50e48038a4b80c94c4"
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 1467 (2017) — Neonatal abstinence syndrome; Board of Health to adopt regulations to include as reportable disease.

Requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations to include neonatal abstinence syndrome on the list of diseases that shall be required to be reported. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0280)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1467ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1467ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101158D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1467)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101158D `introduction`
- **2016-12-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-02** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-03** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d089a0d-7d14-4e20-8bb6-28e221f5760b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).