---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health professions and facilities; adverse action in another jurisdiction."
description: "Health professions and facilities; adverse action in another jurisdiction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1971"
citation: "Virginia HB 1971 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher P. Stolle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c088d42f-554b-4eb0-a019-1ef63ef1fb37"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1971"
source_hash: "42e67ed55543f00de42e0a623332b09e5a1fc2ae6c5a61ebb59d3549abedbc39"
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 1971 (2019) — Health professions and facilities; adverse action in another jurisdiction.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0138)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1971ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1971ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101778D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1971)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Christopher P. Stolle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101778D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- **2019-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 138 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c088d42f-554b-4eb0-a019-1ef63ef1fb37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).