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| Bill | Art therapists and art therapy associates; definitions, licensure. | Board of Counseling; licensure of art therapists and art therapist associates. Requires the Board of Counseling to adopt regulations establishing a regulatory structure to license art therapists and art therapist associates, as those terms are defined in the bill, 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 art therapy or hold himself out or otherwise represent himself as an art therapist or art therapist associate unless he is licensed by the Board. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 713 | Virginia SB 713 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 713 (2020) — Art therapists and art therapy associates; definitions, licensure.
Board of Counseling; licensure of art therapists and art therapist associates. Requires the Board of Counseling to adopt regulations establishing a regulatory structure to license art therapists and art therapist associates, as those terms are defined in the bill, 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 art therapy or hold himself out or otherwise represent himself as an art therapist or art therapist associate unless he is licensed by the Board.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB713ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB713) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB713S1) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (75-Y 22-N) — 74–22 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104756D
introduction - 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2020-01-20 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2020-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB713)
- 2020-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2020-01-30 Committee substitute printed 20106583D-S1
substitution - 2020-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB713S1)
- 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 20106583D-S1
- 2020-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB713S1
- 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (39-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 (75-Y 22-N)
passage - 2020-02-21 VOTE: Passage (75-Y 22-N)
- 2020-02-26 Enrolled
- 2020-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB713ER)
- 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
- 2020-03-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 301 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef7d45e7-98c7-4af3-9b61-243da21f02b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).