republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-737.md

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Bill	Early childhood care and education entities; administration of epinephrine.	Early childhood care and education entities; administration of epinephrine. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require each early childhood care and education entity to implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every such entity to be administered by any nurse at the entity, employee at the entity, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine to any child believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction. The bill mandates that such policies shall require that at least one school nurse, employee at the entity, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine has the means to access at all times during regular facility hours any such appropriate weight-based dosage of epinephrine that is stored in a locked or otherwise generally inaccessible container or area. This bill shall be known as Elijah's Law. This bill is identical to HB 1328.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 737	Virginia SB 737 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jennifer B. Boysko	4	29	5	2022-01-21	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/00afaec6-4e55-40e8-b31a-1d7efd44e0d2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB737	22336f56169b6deedf38e28ea206e735a66035fc11ab2ef9f83675bfd33b3ac5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 737 (2022) — Early childhood care and education entities; administration of epinephrine.

Early childhood care and education entities; administration of epinephrine. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require each early childhood care and education entity to implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every such entity to be administered by any nurse at the entity, employee at the entity, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine to any child believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction. The bill mandates that such policies shall require that at least one school nurse, employee at the entity, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine has the means to access at all times during regular facility hours any such appropriate weight-based dosage of epinephrine that is stored in a locked or otherwise generally inaccessible container or area. This bill shall be known as Elijah's Law. This bill is identical to HB 1328.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0696 (committee substitute) — source
2. Presented and ordered printed 22103738D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22103738D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB737ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 22103738D introduction
• 2022-01-21 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2022-01-27 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB737)
• 2022-02-03 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2022-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-07 Printed as engrossed 22103738D-E
• 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 SB737E
• 2022-02-08 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2022-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB737E)
• 2022-02-23 Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-02 Enrolled
• 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB737ER)
• 2022-03-03 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 696 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00afaec6-4e55-40e8-b31a-1d7efd44e0d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).