republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1245.md

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Bill	Boxing and wrestling events; license requirements for examining physicians.	Boxing and wrestling events; license requirements for examining physicians. Provides that a physician examining a boxer, martial artist, or professional wrestler prior to such athlete entering the ring must have held a license to practice medicine for at least three years in any jurisdiction of the United States and must be currently licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth. Current law requires such physician to have been licensed in the Commonwealth for at least five years. The bill also requires a promoter to furnish to the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, within two weeks following the completion of an event, a report showing (i) the number of tickets sold, unsold, and given away; (ii) the amount of gross proceeds; and (iii) the total gross receipts received from distribution rights of such event. Current law requires such report to be furnished to the Department within 24 hours of the completion of an event. This bill is identical to HB 2573.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1245	Virginia SB 1245 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bill DeSteph	4	30	5	2025-01-08	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/565a63c5-b3b1-437e-8e33-d3657b36bae9	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1245	4b869410601dd9294f760e88f4e3a988ee1a594d2929a037a92d649c269fd870	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1245 (2025) — Boxing and wrestling events; license requirements for examining physicians.

Boxing and wrestling events; license requirements for examining physicians. Provides that a physician examining a boxer, martial artist, or professional wrestler prior to such athlete entering the ring must have held a license to practice medicine for at least three years in any jurisdiction of the United States and must be currently licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth. Current law requires such physician to have been licensed in the Commonwealth for at least five years. The bill also requires a promoter to furnish to the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, within two weeks following the completion of an event, a report showing (i) the number of tickets sold, unsold, and given away; (ii) the amount of gross proceeds; and (iii) the total gross receipts received from distribution rights of such event. Current law requires such report to be furnished to the Department within 24 hours of the completion of an event. This bill is identical to HB 2573.

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. General Laws and Technology Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (94-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill DeSteph — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103659D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Assigned GL&T sub: Gaming referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-22 Committee substitute printed 25105401D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-27 General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1245)
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-11 Passed House (94-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-13 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-13 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1245ER) passage
• 2025-02-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1245)
• 2025-02-13 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-16 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 111 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0111)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/565a63c5-b3b1-437e-8e33-d3657b36bae9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).