---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Professions, Department of; disclosure of investigative information."
description: "Health Professions, Department of; disclosure of investigative information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1848"
citation: "Virginia HB 1848 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dawn M. Adams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-02"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2306ae85-5eb2-4f65-b4e0-0b99a1ccdf5e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1848"
source_hash: "0c2f389aac4eaadfad6aa2275538a3178c5cdf9594711230fc970c5e242a22ba"
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 1848 (2019) — Health Professions, Department of; disclosure of investigative information.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0418)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1848ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1848ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101779D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1848)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dawn M. Adams — primary (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Rosalyn R. Dance — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101779D `introduction`
- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-21** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-22** 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`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 418 (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/2306ae85-5eb2-4f65-b4e0-0b99a1ccdf5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).