republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1615.md

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Bill	Chief Medical Examiner; appointment, terms, and authority of medical examiners.	Provides that the Chief Medical Examiner may appoint a medical examiner for each county or city in the Commonwealth. Under current law, the Chief Medical Examiner is required to do so. The bill authorizes appointed medical examiners to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with cases requiring medicolegal death investigations. Finally, the bill clarifies that the appointment of a medical examiner to fill a vacancy is not required to start on October 1 of the year of appointment, and the term length of such appointment is for the unexpired term.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1615	Virginia HB 1615 (2017)	bill	Health	enacted	Roslyn C. Tyler	3	16	6	2017-01-03	2017-02-23	openstates	ocd-bill/54e0dd01-35d3-4782-9716-9004830d48ed	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1615	fb24f97b93059136d10c52fd39575c59cca8f64500da9c78b360f404a8580b50	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1615 (2017) — Chief Medical Examiner; appointment, terms, and authority of medical examiners.

Provides that the Chief Medical Examiner may appoint a medical examiner for each county or city in the Commonwealth. Under current law, the Chief Medical Examiner is required to do so. The bill authorizes appointed medical examiners to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with cases requiring medicolegal death investigations. Finally, the bill clarifies that the appointment of a medical examiner to fill a vacancy is not required to start on October 1 of the year of appointment, and the term length of such appointment is for the unexpired term.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1615ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101342D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Roslyn C. Tyler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101342D introduction
• 2017-01-03 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2017-01-12 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-26 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-27 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-30 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-02-06 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-15 Enrolled
• 2017-02-15 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-17 Signed by President
• 2017-02-17 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
• 2017-02-17 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
• 2017-02-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 170 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54e0dd01-35d3-4782-9716-9004830d48ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).