republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-633.md

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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 HB 1562.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 633	Virginia SB 633 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jill Holtzman Vogel	4	28	5	2020-01-07	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/61dd70de-d452-48d2-ab84-8058391ca5f2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB633	2d381dc299ef5b45d41b254b4df2e8a1d965b991ef3f97987b59257edb85274e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 633 (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 HB 1562.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB633ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB633) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB633S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (87-Y 9-N) — 86–9 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jill Holtzman Vogel — primary (person)
• Jennifer A. Kiggans — cosponsor (person)
• Siobhan S. Dunnavant — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105169D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB633)
• 2020-01-22 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute printed 20106549D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB633S1)
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-03 Committee substitute agreed to 20106549D-S1
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB633S1
• 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 Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Passed House (87-Y 9-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: Passage (87-Y 9-N)
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled
• 2020-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB633ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 233 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61dd70de-d452-48d2-ab84-8058391ca5f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).