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type: "Bill"
title: "Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV."
description: "Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I and IV of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1587"
citation: "Virginia HB 1587 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-02"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89433fb5-eaa7-4c20-8867-a65d350f37bf"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1587"
source_hash: "03c3c87eb81ae02d6b2dceb2dbb0ca5275ffd81012670d69eba19362a4930af1"
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 1587 (2025) — Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV.
Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule IV. Adds certain chemicals to Schedules I and IV of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed from the schedule after 18 months unless a general law is enacted adding the substance to the schedule.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012115.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071302.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060886.PDF)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102313D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-02** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Impact statement from VCSC (HB1587)
- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1587)
- **2025-01-16** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-01-22** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1587ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1587)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 118 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89433fb5-eaa7-4c20-8867-a65d350f37bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).