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| Bill | Nursing, Board of; waiver of regulations related to nursing faculty ratios. | Board of Nursing; faculty supervision of direct client care; faculty-to-student ratio. Directs the Board of Nursing to allow nursing education programs to apply for a waiver of the student-to-faculty ratios for direct client care. Under the bill, such waiver would permit a nursing education program to increase the ratio of students to faculty engaged in direct client care from 10 students per faculty member up to, but not to exceed, 15 students per faculty member. Current regulations permit faculty to supervise up to 10 students providing such care per faculty member without the utilization of a preceptor. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | HB 1860 | Virginia HB 1860 (2025) |
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Virginia HB 1860 (2025) — Nursing, Board of; waiver of regulations related to nursing faculty ratios.
Board of Nursing; faculty supervision of direct client care; faculty-to-student ratio. Directs the Board of Nursing to allow nursing education programs to apply for a waiver of the student-to-faculty ratios for direct client care. Under the bill, such waiver would permit a nursing education program to increase the ratio of students to faculty engaged in direct client care from 10 students per faculty member up to, but not to exceed, 15 students per faculty member. Current regulations permit faculty to supervise up to 10 students providing such care per faculty member without the utilization of a preceptor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
- Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103137D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
referral-committee - 2025-01-14 Assigned sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2025-01-15 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1860)
- 2025-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
substitution - 2025-01-17 Assigned sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2025-01-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1860)
- 2025-01-21 Committee substitute printed 25104897D-H1
substitution - 2025-01-21 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-23 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-01-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-01-24 Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
- 2025-01-24 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2025-01-27 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2025-01-28 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2025-02-07 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
- 2025-02-18 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-18 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-03-07 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1860ER)
passage - 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1860)
- 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-03-10 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 84 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-18 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0084)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68836ac0-5c57-4541-894d-7936cbf05f7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).