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---
type: "Bill"
title: "School counselors; licensure."
description: "School counselors; licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1117"
citation: "Virginia SB 1117 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Behavioral Health and Developmental Services", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f6a272b-ca8d-4b74-925b-b33b8bef49c4"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1117"
source_hash: "c3343c994bc74a346713097cba102ba9eb9f0d72171cca2bc4118c163a29d12b"
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 SB 1117 (2017) — School counselors; licensure.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0520)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1117ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1117ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102221D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1117)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate — **319** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **982** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **105** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102221D `introduction`
- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Passed House (98-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 520 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f6a272b-ca8d-4b74-925b-b33b8bef49c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).