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Bill Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. Directs each health regulatory board regulated by the Department of Health Professions to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway for qualified applicants as practitioners of the particular profession or professions regulated by such board. The bill specifies that the Board of Medicine shall be the first health regulatory board to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway. This bill is identical to SB 1438. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 1861 Virginia HB 1861 (2025)
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Virginia HB 1861 (2025) — Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement.

Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. Directs each health regulatory board regulated by the Department of Health Professions to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway for qualified applicants as practitioners of the particular profession or professions regulated by such board. The bill specifies that the Board of Medicine shall be the first health regulatory board to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway. This bill is identical to SB 1438.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — 210 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 130 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104413D 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 (HB1861)
  • 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-28 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
  • 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2025-02-13 Reported from Education and Health (13-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 (HB1861ER) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1861)
  • 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
  • 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 553 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd8c389f-a325-4c2c-b018-2bce5941467a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).