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| Bill | Health director, local; qualifications. | Local health director; qualifications. Amends the qualification requirements for local health directors to provide that a person may be a local health director if he possess a master's or doctoral degree in the area of public health and has at least three years of professional experience in a full-time position in either a public health agency or public health-related position or is otherwise qualified for the position as determined by the Commissioner of Health. Currently, only a person who is a physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth may be a local health director. The bill provides that if a local health director is not a physician licensed to practice medicine and there is no licensed physician on staff, the local health director shall enter into a consulting agreement with a licensed physician to execute prescribing duties, consult on clinical matters, and perform all other duties as requested. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 192 | Virginia SB 192 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 192 (2022) — Health director, local; qualifications.
Local health director; qualifications. Amends the qualification requirements for local health directors to provide that a person may be a local health director if he possess a master's or doctoral degree in the area of public health and has at least three years of professional experience in a full-time position in either a public health agency or public health-related position or is otherwise qualified for the position as determined by the Commissioner of Health. Currently, only a person who is a physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth may be a local health director. The bill provides that if a local health director is not a physician licensed to practice medicine and there is no licensed physician on staff, the local health director shall enter into a consulting agreement with a licensed physician to execute prescribing duties, consult on clinical matters, and perform all other duties as requested.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0804 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22105409D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22107305D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100567D (committee substitute) — source
- SB192ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 21-N) — 19–21 (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (11-Y 10-N) — 11–10 (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 1-N) — 5–1 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (82-Y 16-N) — 81–16 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)
- Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100567D
introduction - 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-01-14 Assigned Education sub: Health
referral-committee - 2022-01-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB192)
- 2022-01-27 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-01-27 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-01-27 Incorporates SB617 (Locke)
- 2022-01-27 Committee substitute printed 22105409D-S1
substitution - 2022-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2022-01-31 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 22105409D-S1
- 2022-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB192S1
- 2022-02-01 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-01 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-01 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB192S1)
- 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 - 2022-02-22 Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
referral-committee - 2022-02-23 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 1-N)
- 2022-03-01 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (11-Y 10-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-01 Committee substitute printed 22107305D-H1
substitution - 2022-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB192H1)
- 2022-03-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
- 2022-03-07 Passed by for the day
- 2022-03-08 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-08 Committee substitute agreed to 22107305D-H1
- 2022-03-08 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB192H1
- 2022-03-08 Passed House with substitute (82-Y 16-N)
passage - 2022-03-08 VOTE: Passage (82-Y 16-N)
- 2022-03-09 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-09 Title replaced 22107305D-H1
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled
- 2022-03-11 Signed by President
- 2022-03-11 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB192ER)
- 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 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 2022-04-27 Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 21-N)
- 2022-04-27 Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
- 2022-04-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
- 2022-05-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 804 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbfedc0f-42e3-47ef-9549-ac50dafb4e17. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).