---
type: "Bill"
title: "DPOR and DHP; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting."
description: "DPOR and DHP; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 922"
citation: "Virginia SB 922 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-27"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d934c8c-0ea8-42da-899a-ba4e23a522d6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB922"
source_hash: "81f1355a0632cd9f192e9d0c47fa3f157d030852eb7378fab60958dc20c46212"
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 922 (2017) — DPOR and DHP; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0423)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB922ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB922ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101347D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB922)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **5–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101347D `introduction`
- **2016-12-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 423 (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/2d934c8c-0ea8-42da-899a-ba4e23a522d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).