---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physicians; advertising."
description: "Physicians; advertising."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1826"
citation: "Virginia HB 1826 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Narcotics and Drugs", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-02"
last_action: "2019-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69978e28-5c80-4b3d-af8e-f4bb3416b31c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1826"
source_hash: "0dceff91b4fd070849f61aa62c8ac802a86950215e40773fe0a8cb56e51d2a9b"
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 1826 (2019) — Physicians; advertising.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0656)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1826AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1826ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1826ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104997D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1826H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101732D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1826)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19104997D-EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1826EH1)
7. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1826ASE)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **19–3** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **86–11** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **92–5** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendment — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101732D `introduction`
- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Referred from Courts of Justice by voice vote
- **2019-01-21** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19104997D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Amendments by Delegate Orrock agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB1826EH1
- **2019-02-04** Printed as engrossed 19104997D-EH1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (86-Y 11-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-18** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-18** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Senate amendment agreed to by House (92-Y 5-N)
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 656 (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/69978e28-5c80-4b3d-af8e-f4bb3416b31c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).