---
type: "Bill"
title: "Patient care teams; podiatrists and physician assistants."
description: "Establishes the role of \"patient care team podiatrist\" as a provider of management and leadership to physician assistants in the care of patients as part of a patient care team. The bill modifies the supervision requirements for physician assistants by establishing a patient care team model. The bill directs the Board of Medicine to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1952"
citation: "Virginia HB 1952 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey L. Campbell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-06"
last_action: "2019-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81d058f3-800c-4d3a-8e18-87cdb3762ab6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1952"
source_hash: "31ef9a3c8c067456ce47a5d9f97c8873fdf171eaaf6ae630cce2f39bb248958f"
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 1952 (2019) — Patient care teams; podiatrists and physician assistants.

Establishes the role of "patient care team podiatrist" as a provider of management and leadership to physician assistants in the care of patients as part of a patient care team. The bill modifies the supervision requirements for physician assistants by establishing a patient care team model. The bill directs the Board of Medicine to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and 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 (CHAP0137)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0137)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1952)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1952ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1952ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105098D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1952H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103320D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1952)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Jeffrey L. Campbell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103320D `introduction`
- **2019-01-06** 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 `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Committee substitute agreed to 19105098D-H1
- **2019-01-25** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1952H1
- **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 137 (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/81d058f3-800c-4d3a-8e18-87cdb3762ab6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).