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type: "Bill"
title: "Military medical personnel program; personnel may practice under supervision of physician, etc."
description: "Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a program in which military medical personnel may practice and perform certain delegated acts that constitute the practice of medicine or nursing under the supervision of a licensed physician or podiatrist or the chief medical officer of an organization participating in such program, or his designee who is licensed by the Board of Medicine and supervising within his scope of practice. The bill allows the chief medical officer of an organization participating in such program to, in consultation with the chief nursing officer of such organization, designate a registered nurse licensed by the Board of Nursing or practicing with a multistate licensure privilege to supervise military personnel participating in such program while engaged in the practice of nursing. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 915"
citation: "Virginia HB 915 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Armed Forces", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher P. Stolle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea80bdc9-e1fc-4045-9df3-10ae6e6c1828"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB915"
source_hash: "2212d54a7296a1061fa324076bbaee7aac34eb6d64f1d5c15cfe4ace07ba17be"
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 915 (2018) — Military medical personnel program; personnel may practice under supervision of physician, etc.
Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a program in which military medical personnel may practice and perform certain delegated acts that constitute the practice of medicine or nursing under the supervision of a licensed physician or podiatrist or the chief medical officer of an organization participating in such program, or his designee who is licensed by the Board of Medicine and supervising within his scope of practice. The bill allows the chief medical officer of an organization participating in such program to, in consultation with the chief nursing officer of such organization, designate a registered nurse licensed by the Board of Nursing or practicing with a multistate licensure privilege to supervise military personnel participating in such program while engaged in the practice of nursing. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB915ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB915ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105896D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB915H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101551D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB915)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 18105896D-EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB915EH1)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Christopher P. Stolle — primary (person)
- Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin L. Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Brenda L. Pogge — cosponsor (person)
- C. Todd Gilbert — cosponsor (person)
- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- S. Chris Jones — cosponsor (person)
- T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101551D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 18105896D-H1
- **2018-01-30** Amendment by Delegate Stolle agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2018-01-30** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB915EH1
- **2018-01-30** Printed as engrossed 18105896D-EH1
- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 69 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea80bdc9-e1fc-4045-9df3-10ae6e6c1828`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).