---
type: "Bill"
title: "Controlled substances; limits on prescriptions containing opioids."
description: "Eliminates the surgical or invasive procedure treatment exception to the requirement that a prescriber request certain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) when initiating a new course of treatment that includes prescribing opioids for a human patient to last more than seven days. Under current law, a prescriber is not required to request certain information from the PMP for opioid prescriptions of up to 14 days to a patient as part of treatment for a surgical or invasive procedure. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1173"
citation: "Virginia HB 1173 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Narcotics and Drugs", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0bb9684-80e5-454c-bf66-c548aa87f36f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1173"
source_hash: "d9867a44be169bd0f9a8d8095b7e0cab3659995c91a6899754464a52e63a8501"
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 1173 (2018) — Controlled substances; limits on prescriptions containing opioids.

Eliminates the surgical or invasive procedure treatment exception to the requirement that a prescriber request certain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) when initiating a new course of treatment that includes prescribing opioids for a human patient to last more than seven days. Under current law, a prescriber is not required to request certain information from the PMP for opioid prescriptions of up to 14 days to a patient as part of treatment for a surgical or invasive procedure. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1173ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1173ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103269D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1173)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103269D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 102 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0bb9684-80e5-454c-bf66-c548aa87f36f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).