republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-391.md

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Bill	Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil.	Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabisoil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminatingagainst an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oilpursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practitionerfor the treatment or to eliminate the symptoms of the employee'sdiagnosed condition or disease, with certain exceptions, by specifyingthat such use must conform to the laws of the Commonwealth and byexcluding the employees of the Commonwealth and other public bodiesfrom such protections.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 391	Virginia SB 391 (2024)	bill		enacted	Stella G. Pekarsky	6	38	5	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/5ffbb685-17fb-465a-8c5f-9b1e792dc7a0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB391	a637bc6446c95037ea988174ae0c1f1a1867416e9d9e540fd8ddf934eeaa4d6a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 391 (2024) — Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil.

Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabisoil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminatingagainst an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oilpursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practitionerfor the treatment or to eliminate the symptoms of the employee'sdiagnosed condition or disease, with certain exceptions, by specifyingthat such use must conform to the laws of the Commonwealth and byexcluding the employees of the Commonwealth and other public bodiesfrom such protections.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0674 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105181D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor substitute printed 24107276D-S2 (Pekarsky) (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103734D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB391ER (committee substitute) — source
6. SB391S3 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (80-Y 18-N) — 79–18 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (11-Y 3-N) — 11–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stella G. Pekarsky — primary (person)
• Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103734D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB391)
• 2024-02-02 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (11-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Incorporates SB529 (Jordan)
• 2024-02-02 Committee substitute printed 24105181D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB391S1)
• 2024-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-06 Floor substitute printed 24107276D-S2 (Pekarsky)
• 2024-02-06 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-07 Floor substitute printed 24107344D-S3 (Pekarsky)
• 2024-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-07 Committee substitute rejected 241051814D-S1
• 2024-02-07 Substitute#1 by Senator Perkarsky withdrawn 24107276D-S2 withdrawal
• 2024-02-07 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-07 Substitute #2 by Senator Perkarsky agreed to 24107344D-S3
• 2024-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB391S3
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB391S3)
• 2024-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Labor and Commerce (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed House (80-Y 18-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 VOTE: Passage (80-Y 18-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB391ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB391ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 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 674 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ffbb685-17fb-465a-8c5f-9b1e792dc7a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).