republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2303.md

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Bill	Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report.	State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal veterinarians, as defined in the bill, practicing in areas of the Commonwealth that have been identified by the State Veterinarian as having a shortage of such veterinarians. The bill directs the State Veterinarian to annually select from a pool of applicants no more than four large animal veterinarians to participate in the program and to develop, in consultation with the Board of Veterinary Medicine and relevant stakeholders, selection criteria for applicants to participate in the program. The bill also requires the State Veterinarian to submit a report evaluating the extent to which the program has helped to address the shortage of large animal veterinarians in the Commonwealth to the Board and the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources no later than July 1, 2030. This bill is identical to SB 921.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2303	Virginia HB 2303 (2025)	bill		enacted	Alfonso H. Lopez	5	42	10	2025-01-08	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/458f05fa-5f62-4e0e-b0cb-3d9a694f6fb4	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2303	af3fd48bbb67d82434665db5f038a116920bb245bab80183f171e8463ed3e78a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2303 (2025) — Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report.

State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal veterinarians, as defined in the bill, practicing in areas of the Commonwealth that have been identified by the State Veterinarian as having a shortage of such veterinarians. The bill directs the State Veterinarian to annually select from a pool of applicants no more than four large animal veterinarians to participate in the program and to develop, in consultation with the Board of Veterinary Medicine and relevant stakeholders, selection criteria for applicants to participate in the program. The bill also requires the State Veterinarian to submit a report evaluating the extent to which the program has helped to address the shortage of large animal veterinarians in the Commonwealth to the Board and the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources no later than July 1, 2030. This bill is identical to SB 921.

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. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 94-N) — 0–94 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102597D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-17 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
• 2025-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-30 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-31 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-05 Committee substitute printed 25106812D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-06 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-06 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
• 2025-02-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-07 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-07 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-11 Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 94-N)
• 2025-02-13 Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-13 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-14 House acceded to request
• 2025-02-14 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-14 Delegates: Lopez, Willett, Tata
• 2025-02-18 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-18 Senators: Hackworth, Deeds, McPike
• 2025-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2303ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled bill reprinted 25106812D enrolled
• 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
• 2025-03-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/458f05fa-5f62-4e0e-b0cb-3d9a694f6fb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).