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| Bill | Professional and Occupational Regulation, Board for; powers and duties. | Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers and duties. Requires the Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation to (i) review and comment on the budget for the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and (ii) periodically review professions and occupations regulated by the Department and determine whether the regulation level for such professions or occupations should change or whether such professions or occupations should be deregulated. Should the Board determine that a profession or occupation should be regulated at a different level than its current level of regulation or should be deregulated, the bill provides that it must make such recommendation to the General Assembly. This bill is identical to SB 1096. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | HB 2553 | Virginia HB 2553 (2025) |
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Virginia HB 2553 (2025) — Professional and Occupational Regulation, Board for; powers and duties.
Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers and duties. Requires the Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation to (i) review and comment on the budget for the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and (ii) periodically review professions and occupations regulated by the Department and determine whether the regulation level for such professions or occupations should change or whether such professions or occupations should be deregulated. Should the Board determine that a profession or occupation should be regulated at a different level than its current level of regulation or should be deregulated, the bill provides that it must make such recommendation to the General Assembly. This bill is identical to SB 1096.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Atoosa R. Reaser — primary (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100716D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2025-01-20 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process
referral-committee - 2025-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2553)
- 2025-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-30 Reported from General Laws (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 General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2025-02-12 Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-14 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
- 2025-02-17 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-17 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-19 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2553ER)
passage - 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2553)
- 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-02-22 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 94 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0094)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79144a71-47ce-4ec9-b273-47ea77bd9c28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).