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Bill	Tanning facilities; prohibits use by persons under age 18.	Tanning facilities; use by persons under age 18. Prohibits a tanning facility from allowing individuals under age 18 to use a tanning device at such facility other than a spray tanning device that does not emit ultraviolet light. The bill includes an exception allowing a person licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine to prescribe or use a phototherapy device, as defined in the bill, for any patient regardless of age.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 38	Virginia HB 38 (2020)	bill		enacted	Ibraheem S. Samirah	4	30	7	2019-11-19	2020-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/49bb7fbf-2dde-4b99-b33e-a50cdb4a74b7	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB38	add8e2f89902105dbb271b99ab50a839a93d083eca1eced9b052b9c18fa65127	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 38 (2020) — Tanning facilities; prohibits use by persons under age 18.

Tanning facilities; use by persons under age 18. Prohibits a tanning facility from allowing individuals under age 18 to use a tanning device at such facility other than a spray tanning device that does not emit ultraviolet light. The bill includes an exception allowing a person licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine to prescribe or use a phototherapy device, as defined in the bill, for any patient regardless of age.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB38ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB38H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB38H1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor (9-Y 5-N) — 9–5 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N) — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (54-Y 44-N) — 53–44 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (18-Y 4-N) — 18–4 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (15-Y 7-N) — 15–7 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ibraheem S. Samirah — primary (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
• Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-19 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100358D introduction
• 2019-11-19 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Reported from Labor and Commerce (15-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-20 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-21 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-22 Motion to refer to committee agreed to
• 2020-01-22 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-01-24 Assigned HWI sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-03 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-04 Committee substitute printed 20107543D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-04 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (18-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 20107543D-H1
• 2020-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB38H1
• 2020-02-07 Read third time and passed House (54-Y 44-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-07 VOTE: Passage (54-Y 44-N)
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-10 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Labor (9-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-27 Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-05 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 387 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49bb7fbf-2dde-4b99-b33e-a50cdb4a74b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).