republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-239.md

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Bill	Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to Compact.	Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they reside to apply for a multistate license. After verifying eligibility, the social worker is granted a multistate license that authorizes practice in all other compact member states. The Compact takes effect when it is enacted by a seventh member state. This bill is identical to HB 326.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 239	Virginia SB 239 (2024)	bill		enacted	Ghazala F. Hashmi	3	33	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b56816e8-9689-4c01-86fd-c13125ebc38f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB239	609bf756420d60805fb50cac5e188dc813b38ec435d26a51b715b517f4509638	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 239 (2024) — Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to Compact.

Social Work Licensure Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Social Work Licensure Compact. The Compact allows social workers who have or are eligible for an active, unencumbered license in the compact member state where they reside to apply for a multistate license. After verifying eligibility, the social worker is granted a multistate license that authorizes practice in all other compact member states. The Compact takes effect when it is enacted by a seventh member state. This bill is identical to HB 326.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0704 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101999D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB239ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Rereferred from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) — 28–12 (pass) · upper
• House amendment agreed to by Senate (26-Y 13-N) — 26–13 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (91-Y 6-N) — 90–6 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) — 11–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101999D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Rereferred from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Rereferred to Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB239)
• 2024-01-25 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-15 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-20 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-20 Passed House with amendment (91-Y 6-N) passage
• 2024-02-20 VOTE: Passage (91-Y 6-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 House amendment agreed to by Senate (26-Y 13-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB239ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB239ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 704 (effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b56816e8-9689-4c01-86fd-c13125ebc38f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).