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type: "Bill"
title: "License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates; repeal sunset."
description: "License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates; repeal sunset. Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset on the current provision of law allowing the Board of Dentistry to grant, without examination, a faculty license to teach dentistry in an accredited dental program to a graduate of a dental school or college or the dental department of an institution of higher education in a foreign country who has been granted a certification letter from the dean or program director of an accredited dental program confirming that the applicant has clinical competency and clinical experience that meet the credentialing standards of the dental school with which the applicant is to be affiliated. This bill is identical to SB 1360."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1899"
citation: "Virginia HB 1899 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney T. Willett"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f73cb558-9569-447d-91e4-c1af6c8cf736"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1899"
source_hash: "4236b48875c4533add5bff3661c6b9783b01ed65a6809851b4550b338c9f9eb5"
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 1899 (2025) — License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates; repeal sunset.
License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates; repeal sunset. Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset on the current provision of law allowing the Board of Dentistry to grant, without examination, a faculty license to teach dentistry in an accredited dental program to a graduate of a dental school or college or the dental department of an institution of higher education in a foreign country who has been granted a certification letter from the dean or program director of an accredited dental program confirming that the applicant has clinical competency and clinical experience that meet the credentialing standards of the dental school with which the applicant is to be affiliated. This bill is identical to SB 1360.
## 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/1013567.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071066.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046280.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- David Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101229D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Assigned sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1899)
- **2025-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-21** Reported from Health and Human Services (22-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`
- **2025-02-06** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-07** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-12** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1899ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1899)
- **2025-02-15** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 47 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f73cb558-9569-447d-91e4-c1af6c8cf736`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).