---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funeral directors; requirement to report certain statistics removed."
description: "Funeral directors; requirement to report certain statistics removed. Removes the requirement that funeral directors report monthly to the State Registrar a list showing all caskets furnished, bodies prepared for disposition and transportation, and funerals performed where no casket was furnished by the funeral director for the preceding month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1571"
citation: "Virginia HB 1571 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris S. Runion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-28"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b60768c7-8692-4033-9413-71c93869d03b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1571"
source_hash: "60d05700f21a58329d57377ceb38e7e5c5f593e21a2d303ec6e893476a26c96c"
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 1571 (2025) — Funeral directors; requirement to report certain statistics removed.

Funeral directors; requirement to report certain statistics removed. Removes the requirement that funeral directors report monthly to the State Registrar a list showing all caskets furnished, bodies prepared for disposition and transportation, and funerals performed where no casket was furnished by the funeral director for the preceding month.

## 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/1011835.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071290.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046126.PDF)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris S. Runion — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101291D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-12-28** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Referred from General Laws and referred to Health and Human Services (Voice Vote) `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1571)
- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-23** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-29** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-30** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-07** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-12** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1571ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1571)
- **2025-02-15** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 115 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b60768c7-8692-4033-9413-71c93869d03b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).