republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1897.md

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Bill	Master's social worker; scope of practice, regulations.	Board of Social Work; Board of Counseling; master's social worker; scope of practice; regulations. Expands the scope of practice of master's social workers to allow the provision of clinical services under the supervision of a licensed clinical social worker. The bill also directs the Board of Social Work to promulgate regulations to allow master's social workers to engage in clinical services under the supervision of a licensed clinical social worker and directs the Board of Counseling to amend its regulations to state that a licensed baccalaureate social worker shall not be required to (i) register with the Board of Counseling or (ii) fulfill any additional training or education requirements in order to serve as a qualified mental health professional-trainee. The bill directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend their regulations to deem the services provided by a licensed baccalaureate social worker to be equivalent to the services provided by a qualified mental health professional-trainee and reimbursed at a comparable rate, and directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek all necessary federal authority to enact such changes.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1897	Virginia HB 1897 (2025)	bill		enacted	Rodney T. Willett	5	33	8	2025-01-06	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/a7826de7-10b1-479b-a0cc-e22d250f851c	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1897	efe15b908aa806dc994aa8137ee74396e2afedab0f8f506332112f0135bbfb56	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1897 (2025) — Master's social worker; scope of practice, regulations.

Board of Social Work; Board of Counseling; master's social worker; scope of practice; regulations. Expands the scope of practice of master's social workers to allow the provision of clinical services under the supervision of a licensed clinical social worker. The bill also directs the Board of Social Work to promulgate regulations to allow master's social workers to engage in clinical services under the supervision of a licensed clinical social worker and directs the Board of Counseling to amend its regulations to state that a licensed baccalaureate social worker shall not be required to (i) register with the Board of Counseling or (ii) fulfill any additional training or education requirements in order to serve as a qualified mental health professional-trainee. The bill directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend their regulations to deem the services provided by a licensed baccalaureate social worker to be equivalent to the services provided by a qualified mental health professional-trainee and reimbursed at a comparable rate, and directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek all necessary federal authority to enact such changes.

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. HHS Sub: Health Professions Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101166D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1897)
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Committee substitute printed 25106245D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1897)
• 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 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
• 2025-02-07 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 (HB1897ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1897)
• 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
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 146 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a7826de7-10b1-479b-a0cc-e22d250f851c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).