republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-553.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Nursing education programs; out-of-state clinical sites.	Board of Nursing; certain students in nursingeducation programs; out-of-state clinical sites. Directs theBoard of Nursing to amend its regulations to permit students in nursing education programs in the Commonwealth who live within 60 miles ofa bordering state or the District of Columbia to complete an unlimitednumber of required clinical hours at out-of-state clinical sites.The bill requires the regulations to specify that the Board mustaccept such hours for licensure.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 553	Virginia SB 553 (2024)	bill		enacted	T. Travis Hackworth	4	33	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/284f20c2-d992-4c9d-b967-81c871d866a3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB553	fc41c570d09e6c5dcf072ec90042ee10bdbb9829ca0f53c56442ae0aced691c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 553 (2024) — Nursing education programs; out-of-state clinical sites.

Board of Nursing; certain students in nursingeducation programs; out-of-state clinical sites. Directs theBoard of Nursing to amend its regulations to permit students in nursing education programs in the Commonwealth who live within 60 miles ofa bordering state or the District of Columbia to complete an unlimitednumber of required clinical hours at out-of-state clinical sites.The bill requires the regulations to specify that the Board mustaccept such hours for licensure.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0425 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106163D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100907D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB553ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• T. Travis Hackworth — primary (person)
• Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100907D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB553)
• 2024-01-26 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-01 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Committee substitute printed 24106163D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24106163D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB553S1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB553S1)
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-13 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB553ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB553ER)
• 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
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 425 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/284f20c2-d992-4c9d-b967-81c871d866a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).