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type: "Bill"
title: "Laser hair removal; limits practice."
description: "Limits the practice of laser hair removal to a properly trained person licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine or licensed as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner or to a properly trained person under the direction and supervision of a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine or physician assistant or nurse practitioner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2119"
citation: "Virginia HB 2119 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/135e5ac9-cd5c-4e0e-bed4-004f05105f72"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2119"
source_hash: "5108f9f137c64b57c6ac283d6cc4fbbde84767f25e63ec4cc7f51eb82a38a099"
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 2119 (2017) — Laser hair removal; limits practice.
Limits the practice of laser hair removal to a properly trained person licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine or licensed as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner or to a properly trained person under the direction and supervision of a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine or physician assistant or nurse practitioner.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0390)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2119ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2119ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102330D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2119)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102330D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2119E)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **50** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **123** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **2515** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **907** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102330D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2119E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17102330D-E
- **2017-02-07** Engrossed bill reprinted 17102330D-E
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (90-Y 7-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 390 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/135e5ac9-cd5c-4e0e-bed4-004f05105f72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).