---
type: "Bill"
title: "Patient care team; podiatrists and physician assistants."
description: "Establishes the role of \"patient care team podiatrist\" as a provider of management and leadership to physician assistants in the care of patients as part of a patient care team. The bill modifies the supervision requirements for physician assistants by establishing a patient care team model. The bill directs the Board of Medicine to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1209"
citation: "Virginia SB 1209 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark J. Peake"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-04"
last_action: "2019-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54d23737-f7cf-437e-8a82-6ce7092b5cd7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1209"
source_hash: "f86020eb8e99011278230a3b8f8e3a01fa67b5bf8bb2dff8b4a90e59418741f0"
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 1209 (2019) — Patient care team; podiatrists and physician assistants.

Establishes the role of "patient care team podiatrist" as a provider of management and leadership to physician assistants in the care of patients as part of a patient care team. The bill modifies the supervision requirements for physician assistants by establishing a patient care team model. The bill directs the Board of Medicine to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0092)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0092)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1209ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1209ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19104787D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1209S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101643D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1209)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark J. Peake — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101643D `introduction`
- **2019-01-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-21** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-01-21** Committee substitute agreed to 19104787D-S1
- **2019-01-21** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1209S1
- **2019-01-24** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled
- **2019-02-12** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-13** Signed by President
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
- **2019-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 92 (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/54d23737-f7cf-437e-8a82-6ce7092b5cd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).