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Bill	Medicine, Board of; an attorney is allowed to serve as executive director for the Board.	Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications.Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Boardof Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Boardof Medicine must be a physician.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 964	Virginia HB 964 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rodney T. Willett	3	26	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/ed360afa-720a-4f83-843e-bad0a74b0de6	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB964	08e82decff16d178e62ff8267518ded17791f068fb915788500bb36661f35ffd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 964 (2024) — Medicine, Board of; an attorney is allowed to serve as executive director for the Board.

Board of Medicine; executive director; qualifications.Allows attorneys to serve as the executive director for the Boardof Medicine. Under current law, the executive director for the Boardof Medicine must be a physician.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0463 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB964ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102311D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (71-Y 26-N) — 70–26 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services (15-Y 7-N) — 15–7 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — 36–4 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102311D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB964)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
• 2024-01-30 Reported from Health and Human Services (15-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Read third time and passed House (71-Y 26-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-05 VOTE: Passage (71-Y 26-N) passage
• 2024-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-06 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 (15-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 (36-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB964ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB964ER)
• 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
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 463 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed360afa-720a-4f83-843e-bad0a74b0de6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).