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Bill 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 HB 156. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2026 SB 194 Virginia SB 194 (2026)
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Virginia SB 194 (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 HB 156.

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. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed R — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 111 (pass) · upper
  • H VOTE: — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Health and Human Services — 210 (pass) · lower
  • Passage R — 390 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102771D filing, introduction
  • 2026-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2026-01-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB194)
  • 2026-01-23 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions referral-committee
  • 2026-01-23 Senate subcommittee offered
  • 2026-01-28 Senate subcommittee offered
  • 2026-01-29 Senate committee offered
  • 2026-01-29 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (11-Y 1-N 3-A) committee-passage
  • 2026-01-30 Rules suspended
  • 2026-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
  • 2026-01-30 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
  • 2026-01-30 Committee substitute printed 26105998D-S1 substitution
  • 2026-02-02 Read second time reading-2
  • 2026-02-02 Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote) substitution
  • 2026-02-02 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute (Voice Vote) substitution
  • 2026-02-03 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
  • 2026-02-06 Placed on Calendar
  • 2026-02-06 Read first time reading-1
  • 2026-02-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
  • 2026-02-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB194)
  • 2026-02-19 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-02-23 Read second time reading-2
  • 2026-02-24 Read third time reading-3
  • 2026-02-24 Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
  • 2026-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2026-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB194ER) passage
  • 2026-02-26 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB194)
  • 2026-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2026-02-26 Signed by President passage
  • 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 16 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
  • 2026-03-31 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfbfacc5-f5b5-4701-baf0-7ce05c2ce3ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).