republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1636.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil immunity; health care professionals, professional prog. related to career fatigue & wellness."
description: "Civil immunity; health care professionals; professional programs related to career fatigue and wellness. Expands civil immunity for persons who participate in professional programs related to career fatigue and wellness for health care professionals to include those who participate in programs for (i) any health care professionals licensed, registered, or certified by the Department of Health Professions or (ii) students enrolled in programs that are prerequisites to licensure, registration, or certification by the Department of Health Professions. Under current law, civil immunity extends only to persons participating in programs for (a) professionals licensed, registered, or certified by the Boards of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, or Pharmacy or (b) students enrolled in a school of dentistry, dental hygiene, medicine, osteopathic medicine, nursing, or pharmacy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1636"
citation: "Virginia HB 1636 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-03"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3dd69539-71cf-49cb-aa5e-2a13d07b232a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1636"
source_hash: "2d91517f9d7160e146a762d76d39aaa1148cc3ae01d0e8d4b9751fc8e8fdc65b"
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 1636 (2025) — Civil immunity; health care professionals, professional prog. related to career fatigue & wellness.

Civil immunity; health care professionals; professional programs related to career fatigue and wellness. Expands civil immunity for persons who participate in professional programs related to career fatigue and wellness for health care professionals to include those who participate in programs for (i) any health care professionals licensed, registered, or certified by the Department of Health Professions or (ii) students enrolled in programs that are prerequisites to licensure, registration, or certification by the Department of Health Professions. Under current law, civil immunity extends only to persons participating in programs for (a) professionals licensed, registered, or certified by the Boards of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, or Pharmacy or (b) students enrolled in a school of dentistry, dental hygiene, medicine, osteopathic medicine, nursing, or pharmacy.

## 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/1012428.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071972.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060932.PDF)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100790D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1636)
- **2025-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-21** Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-28** 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 (HB1636ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1636)
- **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`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 183 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0183)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3dd69539-71cf-49cb-aa5e-2a13d07b232a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).