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| Bill | Medicine and Nursing, Boards of; continuing education, bias reduction training. | Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing; continuing education; bias reduction training. Directs the Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing to require certain licensees to complete continuing learning activities on implicit and explicit bias reduction in health care as part of their continuing education and continuing competency requirements for licensure and authorizes the Board of Nursing to require certain continuing learning activities or courses in a specific subject area. Under current law, the Board of Medicine has such authority. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 22 | Virginia SB 22 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 22 (2026) — Medicine and Nursing, Boards of; continuing education, bias reduction training.
Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing; continuing education; bias reduction training. Directs the Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing to require certain licensees to complete continuing learning activities on implicit and explicit bias reduction in health care as part of their continuing education and continuing competency requirements for licensure and authorizes the Board of Nursing to require certain continuing learning activities or courses in a specific subject area. Under current law, the Board of Medicine has such authority.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- H VOTE: — 63–34 (pass) · lower
- Passage R — 30–8 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services — 15–6 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 13–2 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-11-17 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100549D
filing, introduction - 2025-11-17 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2026-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB22)
- 2026-01-23 Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
referral-committee - 2026-01-23 Senate subcommittee offered
- 2026-01-29 Senate committee offered
- 2026-01-29 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
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 26105758D-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 (30-Y 8-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 - 2026-02-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB22)
- 2026-02-19 Reported from Health and Human Services (15-Y 6-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-23 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-24 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-24 Passed House (63-Y 34-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-02-26 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB22ER)
passage - 2026-02-26 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB22)
- 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 - 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 451 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6509d368-d173-4b34-882a-fc23fa4fe083. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).