republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-760.md

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Bill	Psychologists; licensure, permitted to practice in Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.	Licensure of psychologists; Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. The Compact permits eligible licensed psychologists to practice in Compact member states, provided that they are licensed in at least one member state. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021, and directs the Board of Psychology to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 760	Virginia SB 760 (2020)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	3	28	8	2020-01-08	2020-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/b782296b-3ea4-4931-b917-2c06356f0ea3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB760	4ef9666471261cfb5376024800a286506cf7d232c45c9c564458dd6338db54bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 760 (2020) — Psychologists; licensure, permitted to practice in Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.

Licensure of psychologists; Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. The Compact permits eligible licensed psychologists to practice in Compact member states, provided that they are licensed in at least one member state. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021, and directs the Board of Psychology to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1162) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB760ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB760) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
• Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103631D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2020-01-21 Rereferred from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-21 Rereferred to Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB760)
• 2020-02-06 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 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
• 2020-02-13 Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-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 (SB760ER)
• 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
• 2020-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1162 (effective 1/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b782296b-3ea4-4931-b917-2c06356f0ea3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).