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type: "Bill"
title: "Practical nurses, licensed; authority to pronounce death for a patient in hospice, etc."
description: "Licensed practical nurses; authority to pronounce death. Extends to licensed practical nurses the authority to pronounce the death of a patient in hospice, provided that certain conditions are met. Current law provides that physicians, registered nurses, and physician assistants may pronounce death."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "Virginia SB 169 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark J. Peake"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/825759ac-c480-4bc4-b926-5fe17b224594"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB169"
source_hash: "826146af141c61201f50f12bd2f490ac13217a6e389eb3cb8046ffc1f8048d6b"
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 SB 169 (2022) — Practical nurses, licensed; authority to pronounce death for a patient in hospice, etc.
Licensed practical nurses; authority to pronounce death. Extends to licensed practical nurses the authority to pronounce the death of a patient in hospice, provided that certain conditions are met. Current law provides that physicians, registered nurses, and physician assistants may pronounce death.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0198** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0198)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102397D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB169)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22102397D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB169E)
4. **SB169ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB169ER)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (14-Y 8-N) — **148** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **350** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (61-Y 38-N) — **6038** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mark J. Peake — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102397D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB169)
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** Reading of amendments waived
- **2022-02-07** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-02-07** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB169E
- **2022-02-07** Printed as engrossed 22102397D-E
- **2022-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB169E)
- **2022-02-08** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-24** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-01** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (14-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Passed House (61-Y 38-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Passage (61-Y 38-N)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB169ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 198 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/825759ac-c480-4bc4-b926-5fe17b224594`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).