republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-1173.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Controlled substances; limits on prescriptions containing opioids.	Eliminates the surgical or invasive procedure treatment exception to the requirement that a prescriber request certain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) when initiating a new course of treatment that includes prescribing opioids for a human patient to last more than seven days. Under current law, a prescriber is not required to request certain information from the PMP for opioid prescriptions of up to 14 days to a patient as part of treatment for a surgical or invasive procedure. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 1173	Virginia HB 1173 (2018)	bill	Narcotics and Drugs Professions and Occupations	enacted	Todd E. Pillion	2	15	6	2018-01-10	2018-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/f0bb9684-80e5-454c-bf66-c548aa87f36f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1173	d9867a44be169bd0f9a8d8095b7e0cab3659995c91a6899754464a52e63a8501	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1173 (2018) — Controlled substances; limits on prescriptions containing opioids.

Eliminates the surgical or invasive procedure treatment exception to the requirement that a prescriber request certain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) when initiating a new course of treatment that includes prescribing opioids for a human patient to last more than seven days. Under current law, a prescriber is not required to request certain information from the PMP for opioid prescriptions of up to 14 days to a patient as part of treatment for a surgical or invasive procedure. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1173ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103269D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 10–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103269D introduction
• 2018-01-10 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2018-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-01 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2018-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-21 Enrolled
• 2018-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-23 Signed by President
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
• 2018-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 102 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0bb9684-80e5-454c-bf66-c548aa87f36f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).