---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foreign-trained chiropractors; licensure by endorsement."
description: "Foreign-trained chiropractors; licensure by endorsement. Permits the Board of Medicine to issue a license to practice chiropractic to a foreign-trained chiropractor who meets certain requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1026"
citation: "Virginia HB 1026 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wendell S. Walker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87fd1aab-4ccc-4dd5-8bc7-355a79c0affa"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1026"
source_hash: "fc8fd83a3288e8a8b8d6e7b396a598b669115a7dd53621f5fc71553252a7813b"
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 1026 (2026) — Foreign-trained chiropractors; licensure by endorsement.

Foreign-trained chiropractors; licensure by endorsement. Permits the Board of Medicine to issue a license to practice chiropractic to a foreign-trained chiropractor who meets certain requirements.

## 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/1087158.PDF)
2. **Health Professions Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1128534.PDF)
3. **Health and Human Services Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1136629.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1208910.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wendell S. Walker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102254D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1026)
- **2026-02-05** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2026-02-10** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10** Committee substitute printed 26105733D-H1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1026)
- **2026-02-12** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-13** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-13** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-16** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2026-02-16** Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-17** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-27** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-05** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-06** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-06** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-06** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-14** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1026ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1026)
- **2026-03-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 25, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 724 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87fd1aab-4ccc-4dd5-8bc7-355a79c0affa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).