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type: "Bill"
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title: "Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement."
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description: "Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. Directs each health regulatory board regulated by the Department of Health Professions to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway for qualified applicants as practitioners of the particular profession or professions regulated by such board. The bill specifies that the Board of Medicine shall be the first health regulatory board to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway. This bill is identical to SB 1438."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 1861"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1861 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Marcia S. \"Cia\" Price"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-01-06"
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last_action: "2025-03-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd8c389f-a325-4c2c-b018-2bce5941467a"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1861"
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source_hash: "fdba630bcda8a936707d4729770975bc19740b4701fcc365cc2ea6e747d85655"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1861 (2025) — Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement.
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Department of Health Professions; health regulatory boards; regulations; licensure by endorsement. Directs each health regulatory board regulated by the Department of Health Professions to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway for qualified applicants as practitioners of the particular profession or professions regulated by such board. The bill specifies that the Board of Medicine shall be the first health regulatory board to enact regulations to provide a licensure by endorsement pathway. This bill is identical to SB 1438.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013528.PDF)
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2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077381.PDF)
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3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060978.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104413D `filing, introduction`
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- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-14** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1861)
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- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
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- **2025-01-28** Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-03** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
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- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
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- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
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- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
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- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
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- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1861ER) `passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1861)
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- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
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- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 553 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
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- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553)
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd8c389f-a325-4c2c-b018-2bce5941467a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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