republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-971.md

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Bill	Nurse practitioners; patient care team provider, autonomous practice.	Nurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse practitioners to attest that a nurse practitioner may be qualified to practice without a practice agreement. The bill permits advanced practice registered nurses to practice without a practice agreement when a patient care team physician is no longer able to serve if such advanced practice registered nurse provides evidence that he meets the requirements to practice without a practice agreement as established by the bill. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health Professions to collect data on the implementation of the bill and make such data publicly available on its website.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 971	Virginia HB 971 (2024)	bill		enacted	Kathy K.L. Tran	4	31	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/91b0ebd3-33a8-4b1d-86c3-d64dc9ca82f6	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB971	8d1d0203a7243763b4ec6ef7e1c58cb72c02d8ee2d256c384a8992b3b4a72415	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 971 (2024) — Nurse practitioners; patient care team provider, autonomous practice.

Nurse practitioners; autonomous practice. Lowers from five years to three years the amount of full-time clinical experience required before an advanced practice registered nurse may practice without a practice agreement and permits qualified nurse practitioners to attest that a nurse practitioner may be qualified to practice without a practice agreement. The bill permits advanced practice registered nurses to practice without a practice agreement when a patient care team physician is no longer able to serve if such advanced practice registered nurse provides evidence that he meets the requirements to practice without a practice agreement as established by the bill. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Health Professions to collect data on the implementation of the bill and make such data publicly available on its website.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0404 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107300D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB971ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104357D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
• Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104357D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB971)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-08 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Committee substitute printed 24107300D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB971H1)
• 2024-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 24107300D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB971H1 substitution
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-08 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB971ER) passage
• 2024-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB971ER)
• 2024-03-08 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-09 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 494 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91b0ebd3-33a8-4b1d-86c3-d64dc9ca82f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).