republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2040.md

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Bill	Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice.	Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice; revocation or suspension of license; continuing education. Adds speech-language pathology assistants to the professions governed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. The bill also establishes qualifications, scope of practice, and supervision requirements for speech-language pathology assistants. The bill directs the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology to adopt regulations governing the speech-language pathology assistant profession by July 1, 2026, and specifies that the provisions governing the licensure of speech-language pathology assistants have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2040	Virginia HB 2040 (2025)	bill		enacted	Holly M. Seibold	7	46	10	2025-01-07	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/f7fc5802-1371-4b17-9e07-2f7ee7f3111b	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2040	97b91c18cda6145983ac22a147b037577b1c9896b6ace6fa51699076982de96d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2040 (2025) — Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice.

Speech-language pathology assistants; licensure, qualifications, scope of practice; revocation or suspension of license; continuing education. Adds speech-language pathology assistants to the professions governed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. The bill also establishes qualifications, scope of practice, and supervision requirements for speech-language pathology assistants. The bill directs the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology to adopt regulations governing the speech-language pathology assistant profession by July 1, 2026, and specifies that the provisions governing the licensure of speech-language pathology assistants have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.

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. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
5. Health and Human Services Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 3-N) — 91–3 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (88-Y 7-N) — 88–7 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (87-Y 12-N) — 87–12 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holly M. Seibold — primary (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104040D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 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 (HB2040)
• 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 25105332D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-28 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2040)
• 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-03 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (87-Y 12-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 with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25106923D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-17 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2040)
• 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 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-18 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate substitute agreed to by House (88-Y 7-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2040ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2040)
• 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 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 3-N)
• 2025-04-02 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled bill text (HB2040ER2) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Enacted, Chapter 649 (Effective 07/01/27) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7fc5802-1371-4b17-9e07-2f7ee7f3111b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).