---
type: "Bill"
title: "Board of Nursing; powers and duties."
description: "Board of Nursing; powers and duties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1541"
citation: "Virginia HB 1541 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-12-28"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb72aa78-fbe5-4a86-80b9-808b7c06afea"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1541"
source_hash: "7b177cfa9505c100b8bd4be482c122e1b6221be3d91b2d5d4714debb5dba8a91"
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 1541 (2017) — Board of Nursing; powers and duties.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0105)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0105)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1541ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1541ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101346D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1541)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101346D `introduction`
- **2016-12-28** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-20** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (92-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 105 (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/fb72aa78-fbe5-4a86-80b9-808b7c06afea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).