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type: "Bill"
title: "Nursing, Board of; power and duty to prescribe minimum standards, etc., for educational programs."
description: "Board of Nursing; education programs; oversight. Gives the Board of Nursing the power and duty to prescribe minimum standards and approve curricula for educational programs preparing persons for registration as a medication aide and to provide periodic surveys of training programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 604"
citation: "Virginia HB 604 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Sickles"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eae420cb-3e04-491b-a825-60f4b41ca3ec"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB604"
source_hash: "80b0f6752146cc193a607ba554c22ded0d56542573e94892e648d61782b03b53"
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 604 (2022) — Nursing, Board of; power and duty to prescribe minimum standards, etc., for educational programs.
Board of Nursing; education programs; oversight. Gives the Board of Nursing the power and duty to prescribe minimum standards and approve curricula for educational programs preparing persons for registration as a medication aide and to provide periodic surveys of training programs.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0677** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0677)
2. **HB604ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB604ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102371D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB604)
## Votes
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102371D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB604)
- **2022-02-01** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Enrolled
- **2022-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-23** Signed by President
- **2022-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB604ER)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 677 (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/eae420cb-3e04-491b-a825-60f4b41ca3ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).