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type: "Bill"
title: "Occupation; evaluation of legislation increasing/beginning regulation, com. chairman request."
description: "Evaluation of legislation increasing or beginning regulation of an occupation; committee chairman to request. Providesthat when any bill that would require the Department of Professionaland Occupational Regulation to increase or begin regulation of anoccupation is filed, the chairman of the committee having jurisdictionover the bill shall forward it to the Board for Professional andOccupational Regulation for evaluation. The Board shall completesuch evaluation by November 1 of the same year for requests receivedduring a regular session or as soon as practicable for requests receivedduring a special session. Currently, the Division of Legislative Servicesidentifies and forwards such bills to the Board for evaluation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 207"
citation: "Virginia HB 207 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c717dc7-34fc-4ccf-815d-5f261c059626"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB207"
source_hash: "75df1b5bb7171af1aa17c3c781cbb224b199f961f83fece589f83e9ecae255ba"
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 HB 207 (2022) — Occupation; evaluation of legislation increasing/beginning regulation, com. chairman request.
Evaluation of legislation increasing or beginning regulation of an occupation; committee chairman to request. Providesthat when any bill that would require the Department of Professionaland Occupational Regulation to increase or begin regulation of anoccupation is filed, the chairman of the committee having jurisdictionover the bill shall forward it to the Board for Professional andOccupational Regulation for evaluation. The Board shall completesuch evaluation by November 1 of the same year for requests receivedduring a regular session or as soon as practicable for requests receivedduring a special session. Currently, the Division of Legislative Servicesidentifies and forwards such bills to the Board for evaluation.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0647** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0647)
2. **HB207ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB207ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101850D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB207)
## Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) — **180** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101850D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (HB207)
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-08** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-09** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-09** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-10** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Reported from Rules (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB207ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 647 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c717dc7-34fc-4ccf-815d-5f261c059626`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).