republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-733.md

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Bill	Abortion; expands who can perform in first trimester, informed consent required.	Provision of abortion; informed consent; regulations. Eliminates the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, the provision of specified information, and the offer to review certain printed materials, required under existing law to effect a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill retains the requirement that a physician obtain a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to performing any abortion. The bill expands who can perform first trimester abortions to any person licensed by the Board of Medicine as a physician's assistant and acting within such person's scope of practice or any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner acting within the nurse practitioner's such person's scope of practice. The bill removes a provision classifying facilities that perform five or more first trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 733	Virginia SB 733 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jennifer L. McClellan	6	49	9	2020-01-07	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/261f6312-68f6-4420-a28c-ad3130891377	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB733	096c2fbcd0123e8746394fc096e20ace491a27b69c9baf91a98a1234eff8a0ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 733 (2020) — Abortion; expands who can perform in first trimester, informed consent required.

Provision of abortion; informed consent; regulations. Eliminates the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, the provision of specified information, and the offer to review certain printed materials, required under existing law to effect a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill retains the requirement that a physician obtain a pregnant person's informed written consent prior to performing any abortion. The bill expands who can perform first trimester abortions to any person licensed by the Board of Medicine as a physician's assistant and acting within such person's scope of practice or any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner acting within the nurse practitioner's such person's scope of practice. The bill removes a provision classifying facilities that perform five or more first trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0899) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB733ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB733ES1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB733H1) (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (SB733S1) (committee substitute) — source
6. SB733S2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — 9–6 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (53-Y 45-N) — 52–45 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee substitute agreed to (20-Y 19-N) — 20–19 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N) — 20–20 (fail) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) — 20–20 (fail) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N) — 20–20 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
• Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
• Richard L. Saslaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102740D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB733)
• 2020-01-23 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-23 Incorporates SB21 (Saslaw)
• 2020-01-23 Incorporates SB68 (Locke)
• 2020-01-23 Committee substitute printed 20106530D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-27 Passed by for the day
• 2020-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB733S1)
• 2020-01-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-28 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-01-28 Committee substitute agreed to (20-Y 19-N)
• 2020-01-28 20106530D-S1
• 2020-01-28 Floor substitute printed 20106576D-S2 (Newman)
• 2020-01-28 Substitute by Senator Newman withdrawn 20106576D-S2
• 2020-01-28 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-01-28 Amendment by Senator McClellan agreed to amendment-passage
• 2020-01-28 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB733ES1
• 2020-01-28 Printed as engrossed 20106530D-ES1
• 2020-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB733ES1)
• 2020-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-29 Chair votes Yes
• 2020-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-24 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-24 Committee substitute printed 20108469D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB733H1)
• 2020-02-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-27 Committee substitute agreed to 20108469D-H1
• 2020-02-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB733H1
• 2020-02-27 Pending question ordered
• 2020-02-27 Passed House with substitute (53-Y 45-N) passage
• 2020-02-27 VOTE: Passage (53-Y 45-N)
• 2020-03-02 House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N)
• 2020-03-02 Chair votes Yes
• 2020-03-02 Title replaced 20108469D-H1
• 2020-03-02 Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-02 House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 20-N)
• 2020-03-02 Chair votes Yes
• 2020-03-06 Enrolled
• 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB733ER)
• 2020-03-06 Signed by President
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 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
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 899 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/261f6312-68f6-4420-a28c-ad3130891377. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).