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Bill	Music therapy; definition of music therapist, licensure.	Music therapy; licensure. Requires the Board of Social Work to adopt regulations establishing a regulatory structure to license music therapists in the Commonwealth and establishes an advisory board to assist the Board in this process. Under the bill, no person shall engage in the practice of music therapy or hold himself out or otherwise represent himself as a music therapist unless he is licensed by the Board. This bill is identical to SB 633.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1562	Virginia HB 1562 (2020)	bill		enacted	Christopher T. Head	4	26	5	2020-01-13	2020-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/2b546d6f-d3c3-4349-807a-518f48e2e344	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1562	594af728b31246958870bd8becc8dcb3cc660a837ce1c56f255b8fb6ee23dd08	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1562 (2020) — Music therapy; definition of music therapist, licensure.

Music therapy; licensure. Requires the Board of Social Work to adopt regulations establishing a regulatory structure to license music therapists in the Commonwealth and establishes an advisory board to assist the Board in this process. Under the bill, no person shall engage in the practice of music therapy or hold himself out or otherwise represent himself as a music therapist unless he is licensed by the Board. This bill is identical to SB 633.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0103) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1562ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1562H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB1562) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (92-Y 5-N) — 91–5 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-13 Presented and ordered printed 20105438D introduction
• 2020-01-13 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-01-21 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB1562)
• 2020-01-21 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-21 Committee substitute printed 20106167D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-23 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-24 Committee substitute agreed to 20106167D-H1
• 2020-01-24 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1562H1
• 2020-01-27 Read third time and passed House (92-Y 5-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-27 VOTE: Passage (92-Y 5-N)
• 2020-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1562H1)
• 2020-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-01-28 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-20 Enrolled
• 2020-02-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB1562ER)
• 2020-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-21 Signed by President
• 2020-02-25 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2020
• 2020-02-25 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 3, 2020
• 2020-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 103 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b546d6f-d3c3-4349-807a-518f48e2e344. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).