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type: "Bill"
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title: "Women's Menstrual Health Program; established, information collection, etc."
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description: "Women's Menstrual Health Program established; provision of education, training, and information. Directs the Commissioner of Health to establish the Women's Menstrual Health Program within the Department of Health. The bill directs the Department, in administering the Program, to provide (i) education and training concerning menstrual health, menstrual health screening, and menstrual health care to health care providers, hospital staff who encounter patients in emergency situations, and the public and (ii) on the Department's website, clinical practice guidelines for health care providers related to menstrual disorders and educational materials for health care providers and the public concerning menstrual disorders."
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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 1918"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1918 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Destiny LeVere Bolling"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 43
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vote_count: 11
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first_action: "2025-01-06"
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last_action: "2025-05-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93069401-e31d-4feb-91fc-14ca93a5f187"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1918"
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source_hash: "d447e6d344ba381eb1f1bbdfe5549a586b0ca36ccb829e0a305723867a609b27"
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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 1918 (2025) — Women's Menstrual Health Program; established, information collection, etc.
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Women's Menstrual Health Program established; provision of education, training, and information. Directs the Commissioner of Health to establish the Women's Menstrual Health Program within the Department of Health. The bill directs the Department, in administering the Program, to provide (i) education and training concerning menstrual health, menstrual health screening, and menstrual health care to health care providers, hospital staff who encounter patients in emergency situations, and the public and (ii) on the Department's website, clinical practice guidelines for health care providers related to menstrual disorders and educational materials for health care providers and the public concerning menstrual disorders.
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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/1014033.PDF)
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2. **Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1030079.PDF)
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3. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1079930.PDF)
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4. **Governor's Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1073946.HTML)
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5. **Health and Human Services Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024681.PDF)
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6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061529.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- House rejected Governor's recommendation (16-Y 80-N) — **16–80** (fail) · lower
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- Passed in enrolled form (94-Y 0-N) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Destiny LeVere Bolling — primary (person)
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- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
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- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
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- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
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- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
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- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (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 25101648D `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 `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2025-01-23** Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-23** Committee substitute printed 25105559D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2025-01-23** Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1918)
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- **2025-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2025-01-27** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-27** Committee substitute printed 25105832D-H2 `substitution`
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- **2025-01-28** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1918)
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- **2025-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2025-01-30** Health and Human Services Substitute rejected
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- **2025-01-30** Appropriations Substitute agreed to
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- **2025-01-30** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-01-31** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
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- **2025-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-14** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-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) (39-Y 0-N)
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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 (HB1918ER) `passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1918)
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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** Governor's recommendation received by House `executive-veto-line-item`
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- **2025-04-02** House rejected Governor's recommendation (16-Y 80-N) `veto-override-passage`
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- **2025-04-02** Passed in enrolled form (94-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable, enrolled`
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- **2025-04-02** Passed by for the day
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- **2025-04-02** Communicated to Governor
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- **2025-04-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 694 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694)
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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/93069401-e31d-4feb-91fc-14ca93a5f187`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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