republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/hb-156.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic death reg. system; requiring certain applicants for licensure to complete training."
description: "Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing; licensure renewal; electronic death registration system; death certificates. Requires the Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing to amend their applications for licensure and licensure renewal to require doctors of medicine and osteopathic medicine, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to indicate if they expect their scope of practice to include signing death certificates and, if so, to indicate that they have completed the online tutorial for the Electronic Death Registration System on the Department of Health website. This bill is identical to SB 194."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 156"
citation: "Virginia HB 156 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul E. Krizek"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd4fa464-c582-4a98-98fb-86efd7f2363f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB156"
source_hash: "954146a79af4559875549cf5c57c7cce90dd865b09f9569ef435fb0cbad31d2a"
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 HB 156 (2026) — Electronic death reg. system; requiring certain applicants for licensure to complete training.

Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing; licensure renewal; electronic death registration system; death certificates. Requires the Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing to amend their applications for licensure and licensure renewal to require doctors of medicine and osteopathic medicine, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to indicate if they expect their scope of practice to include signing death certificates and, if so, to indicate that they have completed the online tutorial for the Electronic Death Registration System on the Department of Health website. This bill is identical to SB 194.

## 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/1082633.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1214959.PDF)
3. **Health Professions Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1101753.PDF)
4. **Health and Human Services Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1113867.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1177924.PDF)

## Votes

- H VOTE: — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **9–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paul E. Krizek — primary (person)
- Virgil Thornton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103242D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
- **2026-01-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
- **2026-01-16** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2026-02-03** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-03** Committee substitute printed 26106252D-H1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-06** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-09** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
- **2026-02-19** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-20** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-20** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-23** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-02-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB156ER) `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 42 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-31** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0042)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd4fa464-c582-4a98-98fb-86efd7f2363f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).