---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacist; counseling for new prescriptions, disposal of medicine."
description: "Allows a pharmacist to include information regarding the proper disposal of medicine when giving counsel to a person who presents a new prescription for filling. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1743"
citation: "Virginia HB 1743 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Narcotics and Drugs", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-12-20"
last_action: "2019-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9b181bb-ca5c-4a51-9f8b-74865c62dc32"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1743"
source_hash: "b5491916a4bbce9637f4bf001c11a251deb46c0a9193e66132238f3925faa2dc"
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 1743 (2019) — Pharmacist; counseling for new prescriptions, disposal of medicine.

Allows a pharmacist to include information regarding the proper disposal of medicine when giving counsel to a person who presents a new prescription for filling. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0135)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1743ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1743ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101425D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1743)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-20** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101425D `introduction`
- **2018-12-20** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- **2019-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 135 (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/d9b181bb-ca5c-4a51-9f8b-74865c62dc32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).