republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2319.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Drug and controlled paraphernalia; creates exception for drug checking products.	Drug paraphernalia; controlled paraphernalia; drug checking products; exception. Creates an exception for drug checking products used to determine the presence or concentration of a contaminant that can cause physical harm or death from the definitions of drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia. Under current law, the exception applies only to narcotic testing products used to determine whether a controlled substance contains fentanyl or a fentanyl analog.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2319	Virginia HB 2319 (2025)	bill		enacted	Mark D. Sickles	3	27	8	2025-01-08	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/a0b7f424-9885-49e9-8320-c93329e79461	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2319	0bf7520a4320b796ed0700d3beba644755764e7043a79ad7bab4bb6c76fc64b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2319 (2025) — Drug and controlled paraphernalia; creates exception for drug checking products.

Drug paraphernalia; controlled paraphernalia; drug checking products; exception. Creates an exception for drug checking products used to determine the presence or concentration of a contaminant that can cause physical harm or death from the definitions of drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia. Under current law, the exception applies only to narcotic testing products used to determine whether a controlled substance contains fentanyl or a fentanyl analog.

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

• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• 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
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)
• H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Kim A. Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100789D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-30 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 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 (HB2319ER) passage
• 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
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 266 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0b7f424-9885-49e9-8320-c93329e79461. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).