---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure of information to certain physicians or pharmacists."
description: "Provides that the information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Program disclosed by the Director of Health Professions about a specific recipient who is a member of a Virginia Medicaid managed care program to a physician or pharmacist employed by the Virginia Medicaid managed care program may be disclosed to such physician's or pharmacist's clinical designee who holds a multistate licensure privilege to practice nursing or a license issued by a health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions and is employed by the Virginia Medicaid managed care program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1484"
citation: "Virginia SB 1484 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emmett W. Hanger, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb511e57-f32f-46ef-a95e-e95ea19b6b46"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1484"
source_hash: "82cf99a196354191ce1404c9ea194e38dab8f8c90834eaeb116fbe9b1bf2d249"
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 1484 (2017) — Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure of information to certain physicians or pharmacists.

Provides that the information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Program disclosed by the Director of Health Professions about a specific recipient who is a member of a Virginia Medicaid managed care program to a physician or pharmacist employed by the Virginia Medicaid managed care program may be disclosed to such physician's or pharmacist's clinical designee who holds a multistate licensure privilege to practice nursing or a license issued by a health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions and is employed by the Virginia Medicaid managed care program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0186)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1484ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1484ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104669D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1484S1)
4. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103589D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1484)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 17103589D `introduction`
- **2017-01-17** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 17104669D-S1
- **2017-01-30** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1484S1
- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **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
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 186 (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/eb511e57-f32f-46ef-a95e-e95ea19b6b46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).