republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2167.md

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Bill	Opioids and buprenorphine; Boards of Dentistry and Medicine to adopt regulations for prescribing.	Directs the Boards of Dentistry and Medicine to adopt regulations for the prescribing of opioids and products containing buprenorphine. The bill requires the Prescription Monitoring Program at the Department of Health Professions to provide an annual report to the Joint Commission on Health Care on the prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines in the Commonwealth. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2167	Virginia HB 2167 (2017)	bill	Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Emergency Legislation Narcotics and Drugs Professions and Occupations Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	Todd E. Pillion	3	20	7	2017-01-11	2017-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/47867057-a91f-413e-8561-0fca111186c9	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2167	950e88b7d9eb7c808b660ada23c738c91a6ced21f4cca5c9b5143031bc9a4b8a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2167 (2017) — Opioids and buprenorphine; Boards of Dentistry and Medicine to adopt regulations for prescribing.

Directs the Boards of Dentistry and Medicine to adopt regulations for the prescribing of opioids and products containing buprenorphine. The bill requires the Prescription Monitoring Program at the Department of Health Professions to provide an annual report to the Joint Commission on Health Care on the prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines in the Commonwealth. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2167ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17103362D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate amendment agreed to by House — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
• Charles W. Carrico, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
• Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17103362D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2017-01-17 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2017-01-27 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-01 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-02-13 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-13 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2017-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-15 Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
• 2017-02-17 Enrolled
• 2017-02-17 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-20 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 291 (effective 3/3/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47867057-a91f-413e-8561-0fca111186c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).