republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-349.md

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Bill	Advanced registered medication aides; aides who administer drugs in certified nursing facilities.	Advanced registered medication aides; certified nursing facilities; work group; report. Requires advanced registered medication aides who administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in a certified nursing facility licensed by the Department of Health to register with the Board of Nursing. Under the bill, an advanced registered medication aide who is registered to administer drugs to residents in a certified nursing facility shall also be eligible to administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in an assisted living facility. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. The bill also requires the Board of Nursing to convene a work group to develop recommendations to enable such medication aides to administer drugs to residents in a certified nursing facility and to report such recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health and Human Services by November 1, 2024. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations to authorize such medication aides to administer prescription drugs to residents in certified nursing facilities. The bill directs the Board of Nursing to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill to be effective as of July 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 349	Virginia HB 349 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rozia A. Henson, Jr.	4	31	6	2024-01-05	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/eb4b6cc3-286b-4b12-99b1-5fb9ab0aeef0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB349	4b53441a01f131cfcb36da30850344991bae32bb5ca85d100b0dc0d0ba0374cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 349 (2024) — Advanced registered medication aides; aides who administer drugs in certified nursing facilities.

Advanced registered medication aides; certified nursing facilities; work group; report. Requires advanced registered medication aides who administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in a certified nursing facility licensed by the Department of Health to register with the Board of Nursing. Under the bill, an advanced registered medication aide who is registered to administer drugs to residents in a certified nursing facility shall also be eligible to administer drugs that would otherwise be self-administered to residents in an assisted living facility. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. The bill also requires the Board of Nursing to convene a work group to develop recommendations to enable such medication aides to administer drugs to residents in a certified nursing facility and to report such recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health and Human Services by November 1, 2024. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations to authorize such medication aides to administer prescription drugs to residents in certified nursing facilities. The bill directs the Board of Nursing to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill to be effective as of July 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0284 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB349ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100783D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24100783D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N) — 94–3 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — primary (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100783D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB349)
• 2024-01-23 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-26 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-26 Engrossed by House as amended HB349E
• 2024-01-26 Printed as engrossed 24100783D-E
• 2024-01-29 Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB349E)
• 2024-01-29 VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N) passage
• 2024-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-30 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB349ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB349ER)
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 284 (effective - 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb4b6cc3-286b-4b12-99b1-5fb9ab0aeef0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).