republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1180.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 annually provide a report to the Joint Commission on Health Care and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on the prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines in the Commonwealth that includes data on reporting of unusual patterns of prescribing or dispensing of a covered substance by an individual prescriber or dispenser or on potential misuse of a covered substance by a recipient. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 1180	Virginia SB 1180 (2017)	bill	Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Emergency Legislation Narcotics and Drugs Professions and Occupations Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	A. Benton "Ben" Chafin	4	29	9	2017-01-10	2017-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/c8cef294-d889-445c-8893-5a5844e6341e	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1180	465b7962d072eb5fcd7d80fdeb66a175baf474f1e4c262563365e1384c6ee63e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1180 (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 annually provide a report to the Joint Commission on Health Care and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on the prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines in the Commonwealth that includes data on reporting of unusual patterns of prescribing or dispensing of a covered substance by an individual prescriber or dispenser or on potential misuse of a covered substance by a recipient. 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 (CHAP0682) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1180ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101154D (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Printed as engrossed 17101154D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by House — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• House amendment rejected by Senate — 0–40 (fail) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate acceded to request — 39–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — primary (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
• Siobhan S. Dunnavant — cosponsor (person)
• T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101154D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-23 Committee amendment rejected
• 2017-01-23 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-01-23 Amendment by Senator Dunnavant agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-01-23 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1180E
• 2017-01-23 Printed as engrossed 17101154D-E
• 2017-01-30 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-30 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-13 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2017-02-13 Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-02-16 House insisted on amendment
• 2017-02-16 House requested conference committee
• 2017-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2017-02-21 Conferees appointed by House
• 2017-02-22 Amended by conference committee
• 2017-02-23 Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
• 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
• 2017-03-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 682 (effective 3/20/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c8cef294-d889-445c-8893-5a5844e6341e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).