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type: "Bill"
title: "Naloxone or other opioid antagonist; possession and administration."
description: "Adds employees of the Department of Forensic Science, employees of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and employees of the Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services to the list of individuals who may possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonist, provided that they have completed a training program. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1642"
citation: "Virginia HB 1642 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Emergency Legislation", "Narcotics and Drugs", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b313edd8-f12c-4dac-9dc6-f187797d6521"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1642"
source_hash: "187126e9379e7ca49c0dd44c13fe40f50c3c6fe12b12a538f296814b8891a39a"
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 1642 (2017) — Naloxone or other opioid antagonist; possession and administration.
Adds employees of the Department of Forensic Science, employees of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and employees of the Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services to the list of individuals who may possess and administer naloxone or other opioid antagonist, provided that they have completed a training program. The bill contains an emergency clause. 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 (CHAP0107)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0107)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1642ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1642ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17103429D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1642)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103429D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1642E)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17103429D `introduction`
- **2017-01-04** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-01-23** Engrossed by House as amended HB1642E
- **2017-01-23** Printed as engrossed 17103429D-E
- **2017-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Education and 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
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 107 (effective 2/21/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b313edd8-f12c-4dac-9dc6-f187797d6521`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).