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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early childhood care and education entities; administration of epinephrine."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 737"
citation: "Virginia SB 737 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer B. Boysko"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00afaec6-4e55-40e8-b31a-1d7efd44e0d2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB737"
source_hash: "22336f56169b6deedf38e28ea206e735a66035fc11ab2ef9f83675bfd33b3ac5"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0696)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 22103738D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB737)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22103738D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB737E)
4. **SB737ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB737ER)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00afaec6-4e55-40e8-b31a-1d7efd44e0d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).