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type: "Bill"
title: "Physician assistant; eliminates certain requirement for practice."
description: "Practice as a physician assistant. Eliminatesthe requirement that a physician assistant enter into a practiceagreement with a single patient care team physician or patient care team podiatrist and provides that a patient care team physicianor patient care team podiatrist shall not be liable for the actionsor inactions of a physician assistant for whom the patient care team physician or patient care team podiatrist provides collaborationand consultation. The bill also makes clear that a student physicianassistant shall not be required to be licensed to engage in actsthat otherwise constitute practice as a physician assistant, providedthat the student physician assistant is enrolled in an accreditedphysician assistant education program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2039"
citation: "Virginia HB 2039 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86906e4c-1998-4988-aaa2-6aba32562e03"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2039"
source_hash: "416417b05c3992f0b5585f14294b0ff28f1f39ddb07de2266ddb0690b5d15f27"
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 2039 (2021) — Physician assistant; eliminates certain requirement for practice.
Practice as a physician assistant. Eliminatesthe requirement that a physician assistant enter into a practiceagreement with a single patient care team physician or patient care team podiatrist and provides that a patient care team physicianor patient care team podiatrist shall not be liable for the actionsor inactions of a physician assistant for whom the patient care team physician or patient care team podiatrist provides collaborationand consultation. The bill also makes clear that a student physicianassistant shall not be required to be licensed to engage in actsthat otherwise constitute practice as a physician assistant, providedthat the student physician assistant is enrolled in an accreditedphysician assistant education program.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0210** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0210)
2. **HB2039ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2039ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102733D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2039)
4. **Printed as engrossed 21102733D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2039E)
## Votes
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) — **200** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102733D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Assigned HWI sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB2039)
- **2021-01-21** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-29** Passed by temporarily
- **2021-01-29** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2021-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended HB2039E
- **2021-01-29** Printed as engrossed 21102733D-E
- **2021-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB2039E)
- **2021-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB2039ER)
- **2021-02-25** Signed by President
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 210 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86906e4c-1998-4988-aaa2-6aba32562e03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).