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type: "Bill"
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title: "Chief Medical Examiner; appointment, terms, and authority of medical examiners."
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description: "Provides that the Chief Medical Examiner may appoint a medical examiner for each county or city in the Commonwealth. Under current law, the Chief Medical Examiner is required to do so. The bill authorizes appointed medical examiners to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with cases requiring medicolegal death investigations. Finally, the bill clarifies that the appointment of a medical examiner to fill a vacancy is not required to start on October 1 of the year of appointment, and the term length of such appointment is for the unexpired term."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1615"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1615 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Health"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Roslyn C. Tyler"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-03"
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last_action: "2017-02-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54e0dd01-35d3-4782-9716-9004830d48ed"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1615"
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source_hash: "fb24f97b93059136d10c52fd39575c59cca8f64500da9c78b360f404a8580b50"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1615 (2017) — Chief Medical Examiner; appointment, terms, and authority of medical examiners.
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Provides that the Chief Medical Examiner may appoint a medical examiner for each county or city in the Commonwealth. Under current law, the Chief Medical Examiner is required to do so. The bill authorizes appointed medical examiners to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with cases requiring medicolegal death investigations. Finally, the bill clarifies that the appointment of a medical examiner to fill a vacancy is not required to start on October 1 of the year of appointment, and the term length of such appointment is for the unexpired term.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0170)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1615ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1615ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101342D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1615)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Roslyn C. Tyler — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101342D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-03** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-12** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
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- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
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- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 170 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54e0dd01-35d3-4782-9716-9004830d48ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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