---
type: "Bill"
title: "Naloxone; possession and administration by school nurses and local health department employees."
description: "Adds school nurses, local health department employees that are assigned to a public school pursuant to an agreement between the local health department and school board, and other school board employees or individuals contracted by a school board to provide school health services to the list of individuals who may possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonist, provided that they have completed a training program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2318"
citation: "Virginia HB 2318 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Narcotics and Drugs", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John J. McGuire, III"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2446839-7f2a-4781-bd38-9f3464a7296b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2318"
source_hash: "8b72830dc1f1ed31d32b9d2a1bbd6f2776f914f2d765d1f9c0dd59314ecb4505"
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 2318 (2019) — Naloxone; possession and administration by school nurses and local health department employees.

Adds school nurses, local health department employees that are assigned to a public school pursuant to an agreement between the local health department and school board, and other school board employees or individuals contracted by a school board to provide school health services to the list of individuals who may possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonist, provided that they have completed a training program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0212)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2318AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2318ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2318ER)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101441D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2318)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19101441D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2318E)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John J. McGuire, III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101441D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Amendment by Delegate McGuire agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House as amended HB2318E
- **2019-02-01** Printed as engrossed 19101441D-E
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 212 (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/f2446839-7f2a-4781-bd38-9f3464a7296b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).