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| Bill | Genetic counselors; licensing; grandfather clause. | Extends the deadline from July 1, 2016, to December 31, 2018, or to within 90 days of the effective date of the relevant regulations promulgated by the Board, whichever is later, by which individuals who have at least 20 years of documented work experience practicing genetic counseling and meet other certain requirements may receive a waiver from the Board of Medicine of the requirements of a master's degree and American Board of Genetic Counseling or American Board of Medical Genetics certification for licensure as a genetic counselor. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | SB 880 | Virginia SB 880 (2017) |
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Virginia SB 880 (2017) — Genetic counselors; licensing; grandfather clause.
Extends the deadline from July 1, 2016, to December 31, 2018, or to within 90 days of the effective date of the relevant regulations promulgated by the Board, whichever is later, by which individuals who have at least 20 years of documented work experience practicing genetic counseling and meet other certain requirements may receive a waiver from the Board of Medicine of the requirements of a master's degree and American Board of Genetic Counseling or American Board of Medical Genetics certification for licensure as a genetic counselor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB880ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101024D (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Printed as engrossed 17101024D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Janet D. Howell — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2016-12-19 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101024D
introduction - 2016-12-19 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2017-01-16 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-16 Reading of amendment waived
- 2017-01-16 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-01-16 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB880E
- 2017-01-16 Printed as engrossed 17101024D-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 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
referral-committee - 2017-02-15 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-16 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-16 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
passage - 2017-02-20 Enrolled
- 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-21 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
- 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/317df393-1d73-4cd9-a1ef-6d822c60a08f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).