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Bill Health regulatory boards; regulations, licensure by endorsement. Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. Directs each health regulatory board regulated by the Department of Health Professions to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway for qualified applicants as practitioners of the particular profession or professions regulated by such board. The bill specifies that the Board of Medicine shall be the first health regulatory board to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway. This bill is identical to HB 1861. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 SB 1438 Virginia SB 1438 (2025)
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Virginia SB 1438 (2025) — Health regulatory boards; regulations, licensure by endorsement.

Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. Directs each health regulatory board regulated by the Department of Health Professions to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway for qualified applicants as practitioners of the particular profession or professions regulated by such board. The bill specifies that the Board of Medicine shall be the first health regulatory board to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway. This bill is identical to HB 1861.

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 (96-Y 0-N) — 960 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Tara A. Durant — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 25104331D introduction
  • 2025-01-17 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1438)
  • 2025-01-24 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
  • 2025-01-30 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
  • 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-31 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-02-03 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-03 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-06 Placed on Calendar
  • 2025-02-06 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-02-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
  • 2025-02-11 Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-13 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-14 Passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-18 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1438ER) passage
  • 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1438)
  • 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
  • 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 561 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5de2e8fb-b207-441e-af1f-33d3fbaae441. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).