republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/sb-735.md

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Bill	Prescription Monitoring Program; DHP to disclose information.	Allows the Director of the Department of Health Professions to disclose information about a specific recipient of covered substances who is a recipient of medical assistance services to a physician or pharmacist licensed in the Commonwealth or his designee who holds a multistate licensure privilege to practice nursing or a license issued by a health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions and is employed by the Department of Medical Assistance Services, for the purpose of determining eligibility for and managing the care of the recipient in a Patient Utilization Management Safety or similar program.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	SB 735	Virginia SB 735 (2018)	bill	Narcotics and Drugs Professions and Occupations	enacted	Siobhan S. Dunnavant	2	16	5	2018-01-10	2018-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/8ea9a4bc-2b05-4d5f-8ea7-bde3939e9861	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB735	86850697cbe2bba557c03c82bb4276ab49603862d24d822df6608c0082b81a9c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 735 (2018) — Prescription Monitoring Program; DHP to disclose information.

Allows the Director of the Department of Health Professions to disclose information about a specific recipient of covered substances who is a recipient of medical assistance services to a physician or pharmacist licensed in the Commonwealth or his designee who holds a multistate licensure privilege to practice nursing or a license issued by a health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions and is employed by the Department of Medical Assistance Services, for the purpose of determining eligibility for and managing the care of the recipient in a Patient Utilization Management Safety or similar program.

Version chain

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

1. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB735ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104483D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 35–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104483D introduction
• 2018-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2018-01-22 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2018-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2018-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-05 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2018-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-20 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2018-02-22 Enrolled
• 2018-02-22 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 108 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ea9a4bc-2b05-4d5f-8ea7-bde3939e9861. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).