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type: "Bill"
title: "Bd. of Psychology, et al., to study education, training, etc."
description: "Board of Psychology; prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists work group; report. Directs the Boards of Psychology and Medicine to jointly convene a work group with stakeholders to study the education, training, and qualifications of clinical psychologists licensed in the Commonwealth and assess under what conditions it may be appropriate for clinical psychologists to be granted prescriptive authority. The bill requires the work group to report its findings to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 752"
citation: "Virginia SB 752 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-04"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/486e2c1a-9846-45fa-92cb-ca412e1c95b3"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB752"
source_hash: "6f3eb27c213fe4691288da97ab304c03eb31faa181c6f3def9495f2d8b799de7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 752 (2025) — Bd. of Psychology, et al., to study education, training, etc.
Board of Psychology; prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists work group; report. Directs the Boards of Psychology and Medicine to jointly convene a work group with stakeholders to study the education, training, and qualifications of clinical psychologists licensed in the Commonwealth and assess under what conditions it may be appropriate for clinical psychologists to be granted prescriptive authority. The bill requires the work group to report its findings to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2025.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1011653.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077632.PDF)
3. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1022137.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1059518.PDF)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-12-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100614D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-12-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB752)
- **2025-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Committee substitute printed 25104159D-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
- **2025-01-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB752)
- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-01-27** Education and Health 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`
- **2025-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-20** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB752ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB752)
- **2025-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-05** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 590 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/486e2c1a-9846-45fa-92cb-ca412e1c95b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).