---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restaurants; on-site certified food protection managers."
description: "Prepared foods; certified food protection managers. Provides that regulations adopted by the State Board of Health shall not require an establishment that sells only prepared food to have a certified food protection manager on site during all hours of operation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 146"
citation: "Virginia SB 146 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-09"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e46d6ab5-f96a-496f-a7f1-c95aadf89c54"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB146"
source_hash: "72ea10e4af56959aef512240192e687e5848d4b7abaf5bd3777d305b1627e369"
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 146 (2022) — Restaurants; on-site certified food protection managers.

Prepared foods; certified food protection managers. Provides that regulations adopted by the State Board of Health shall not require an establishment that sells only prepared food to have a certified food protection manager on site during all hours of operation.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0393** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0393)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22106502D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB146S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100724D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB146)
4. **SB146ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB146ER)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100724D `introduction`
- **2022-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB146)
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-10** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Committee substitute printed 22106502D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-14** Committee substitute agreed to 22106502D-S1
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB146S1
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-23** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-01** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB146ER)
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB146S1)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 393 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e46d6ab5-f96a-496f-a7f1-c95aadf89c54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).