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type: "Bill"
title: "Nonresident warehousers and nonresident third-party logistics providers; Board of Pharmacy."
description: "Requires warehouser or third-party logistics providers that are located outside the Commonwealth and that ship prescription drugs or devices into the Commonwealth to register with the Board of Pharmacy. The bill requires such nonresident warehousers and nonresident third-party logistics providers to maintain a license, permit, or registration in the resident state and to retain records in a certain manner. The bill authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations related to the storage, handling, and distribution of prescription drugs or devices by nonresident warehousers and nonresident third-party logistics providers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 520"
citation: "Virginia HB 520 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78d4d389-2535-40d5-b77f-9d60f4e48391"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB520"
source_hash: "f705103ae0f22cc6ac2791ce97e93635ad77a29b83887b616fe14c8a056964f5"
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 HB 520 (2018) — Nonresident warehousers and nonresident third-party logistics providers; Board of Pharmacy.
Requires warehouser or third-party logistics providers that are located outside the Commonwealth and that ship prescription drugs or devices into the Commonwealth to register with the Board of Pharmacy. The bill requires such nonresident warehousers and nonresident third-party logistics providers to maintain a license, permit, or registration in the resident state and to retain records in a certain manner. The bill authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations related to the storage, handling, and distribution of prescription drugs or devices by nonresident warehousers and nonresident third-party logistics providers.
## 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 (HB520ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB520ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101579D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB520)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **220** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101579D `introduction`
- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-25** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `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 96 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78d4d389-2535-40d5-b77f-9d60f4e48391`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).