---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure."
description: "Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure. Directs the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to promulgate regulations that establish requirements of licensure for funeral directors and embalmers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1044"
citation: "Virginia SB 1044 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c80c4f23-9be4-4ef1-bf0a-1ca08d5a8aae"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB1044"
source_hash: "315eaef9fcfb72612f692e3a9b724062eaa6b88c83347ad0dea01daf7c19ae36"
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 1044 (2020) — Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure.

Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure. Directs the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to promulgate regulations that establish requirements of licensure for funeral directors and embalmers.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0943)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0943)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1044ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044S1)
5. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S2)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1044S2)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (76-Y 18-N) — **75–18** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- George L. Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 20104415D `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Committee substitute printed 20107052D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S1)
- **2020-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-03** Floor substitute printed 20107505D-S2 (McPike)
- **2020-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044S2)
- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Committee substitute rejected 20107052D-S1
- **2020-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-03** Substitute by Senator McPike agreed to 20107505D-S2
- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1044S2
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Passed by for the day
- **2020-03-02** Passed by for the day
- **2020-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed House (76-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** VOTE: Passage (76-Y 18-N)
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044ER)
- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
- **2020-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 943 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c80c4f23-9be4-4ef1-bf0a-1ca08d5a8aae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).