---
type: "Bill"
title: "International licensure and certification; regulations."
description: "Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; international licensure and certification; regulations. Directs the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to promulgate regulations allowing the issuance of a license or certification to any applicant who holds a comparable international license or certification issued by another country. This bill incorporates HB 2251 and is identical to SB 1188."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1940"
citation: "Virginia HB 1940 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney T. Willett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a98d5f44-be21-4ca9-96a7-10466a493994"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1940"
source_hash: "2b9e932cd62ca690f01a02ee47b6d4303a96089a5016bf5cd0183b65bcc17b8b"
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 1940 (2025) — International licensure and certification; regulations.

Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; international licensure and certification; regulations. Directs the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to promulgate regulations allowing the issuance of a license or certification to any applicant who holds a comparable international license or certification issued by another country. This bill incorporates HB 2251 and is identical to SB 1188.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1014121.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071631.PDF)
3. **General Laws Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032978.PDF)
4. **HGL Sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1028092.HTML)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057218.PDF)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (94-Y 5-N) — **94–5** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104520D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-28** Incorporates HB2251(Maldonado)
- **2025-01-28** Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28** Committee substitute printed 25105962D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-29** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1940)
- **2025-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-31** General Laws Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-31** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1940ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1940)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 150 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a98d5f44-be21-4ca9-96a7-10466a493994`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).