republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-169.md

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Bill	Practical nurses, licensed; authority to pronounce death for a patient in hospice, etc.	Licensed practical nurses; authority to pronounce death. Extends to licensed practical nurses the authority to pronounce the death of a patient in hospice, provided that certain conditions are met. Current law provides that physicians, registered nurses, and physician assistants may pronounce death.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 169	Virginia SB 169 (2022)	bill		enacted	Mark J. Peake	4	31	6	2022-01-10	2022-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/825759ac-c480-4bc4-b926-5fe17b224594	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB169	826146af141c61201f50f12bd2f490ac13217a6e389eb3cb8046ffc1f8048d6b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 169 (2022) — Practical nurses, licensed; authority to pronounce death for a patient in hospice, etc.

Licensed practical nurses; authority to pronounce death. Extends to licensed practical nurses the authority to pronounce the death of a patient in hospice, provided that certain conditions are met. Current law provides that physicians, registered nurses, and physician assistants may pronounce death.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0198 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102397D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22102397D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB169ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (61-Y 38-N) — 60–38 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark J. Peake — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102397D introduction
• 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB169)
• 2022-02-03 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-07 Reading of amendments waived
• 2022-02-07 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2022-02-07 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB169E
• 2022-02-07 Printed as engrossed 22102397D-E
• 2022-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB169E)
• 2022-02-08 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-24 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-01 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 Passed House (61-Y 38-N) passage
• 2022-03-04 VOTE: Passage (61-Y 38-N)
• 2022-03-09 Enrolled
• 2022-03-09 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB169ER)
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 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
• 2022-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 198 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/825759ac-c480-4bc4-b926-5fe17b224594. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).