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Bill Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report. State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal veterinarians, as defined in the bill, practicing in areas of the Commonwealth that have been identified by the State Veterinarian as having a shortage of such veterinarians. The bill directs the State Veterinarian to annually select from a pool of applicants no more than four large animal veterinarians to participate in the program and to develop, in consultation with the Board of Veterinary Medicine and relevant stakeholders, selection criteria for applicants to participate in the program. The bill also requires the State Veterinarian to submit a report evaluating the extent to which the program has helped to address the shortage of large animal veterinarians in the Commonwealth to the Board and the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources no later than July 1, 2030. This bill is identical to HB 2303. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 SB 921 Virginia SB 921 (2025)
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Virginia SB 921 (2025) — Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report.

State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal veterinarians, as defined in the bill, practicing in areas of the Commonwealth that have been identified by the State Veterinarian as having a shortage of such veterinarians. The bill directs the State Veterinarian to annually select from a pool of applicants no more than four large animal veterinarians to participate in the program and to develop, in consultation with the Board of Veterinary Medicine and relevant stakeholders, selection criteria for applicants to participate in the program. The bill also requires the State Veterinarian to submit a report evaluating the extent to which the program has helped to address the shortage of large animal veterinarians in the Commonwealth to the Board and the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources no later than July 1, 2030. This bill is identical to HB 2303.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  4. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
  5. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 039 (fail) · upper
  • Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 960 (pass) · lower
  • Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) — 950 (pass) · lower
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate — 400 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • T. Travis Hackworth — primary (person)
  • Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
  • Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
  • Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102893D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2025-01-16 Assigned ACNR sub: Rural referral-committee
  • 2025-01-22 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
  • 2025-01-23 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2025-01-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106417D-S1 substitution
  • 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
  • 2025-01-30 Rules suspended
  • 2025-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 2025-01-30 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2025-01-31 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
  • 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-31 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 Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2025-02-06 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2025-02-10 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107020D-H1 substitution
  • 2025-02-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
  • 2025-02-12 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-02-13 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-13 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-02-13 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-13 Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-17 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
  • 2025-02-18 House insisted on substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-18 House requested conference committee referral-committee
  • 2025-02-19 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-19 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2025-02-19 Senators: Hackworth, Pekarsky, Williams Graves
  • 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2025-02-20 Delegates: Lopez, Willett, Tata
  • 2025-02-21 Amended by conference committee
  • 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB921ER) 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
  • 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
  • 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 262 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/271f6636-58d4-47fa-a0a0-b7ae03697b9e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).