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type: "Bill"
title: "Health regulatory boards; clarifies the meaning of 'license.'"
description: "Health regulatory boards. Clarifies themeaning of \"license\" as used by the Boards of Funeral Directors andEmbalmers and Physical Therapy and the conditions under which a licensemay be denied, suspended, or revoked by the Board of Veterinary Medicine."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 422"
citation: "Virginia SB 422 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78f8ece4-aff4-4a04-bebf-cc97e240949c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB422"
source_hash: "eba81fe8a3812adf8cf3b290a755d3cdeef11fa877076e4ac0bd0f140b6de7fe"
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 SB 422 (2020) — Health regulatory boards; clarifies the meaning of 'license.'
Health regulatory boards. Clarifies themeaning of "license" as used by the Boards of Funeral Directors andEmbalmers and Physical Therapy and the conditions under which a licensemay be denied, suspended, or revoked by the Board of Veterinary Medicine.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0885)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0885)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB422ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB422ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB422)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB422)
## Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Referred from General Laws — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N) — **50** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **140** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102460D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB422)
- **2020-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Referred from General Laws
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB422ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-07** 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
- **2020-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 885 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78f8ece4-aff4-4a04-bebf-cc97e240949c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).