---
type: "Bill"
title: "Epinephrine; policies for possession & administration at early childhood care, etc."
description: "Epinephrine; policies for possession & administration at early childhood care, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2140"
citation: "Virginia HB 2140 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delaney"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/659ced1a-f2fa-4d44-8f05-0ddfa901abea"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2140"
source_hash: "e3a22756013ac0b5b88f5451d09583dbd93bcdb03a0e7f30c3787f9eb01da0a3"
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 2140 (2023) — Epinephrine; policies for possession & administration at early childhood care, etc.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0122** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0122)
2. **HB2140ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2140ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101187D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2140)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Delaney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101187D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB2140)
- **2023-01-30** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2140ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB2140ER)
- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 122 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/659ced1a-f2fa-4d44-8f05-0ddfa901abea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).