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type: "Bill"
title: "Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber."
description: "Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a model policy for best practices for law-enforcement officers responding to or investigating an overdose to notify the prescriber of any controlled substance found to be in the possession of or ingested by the victim that such prescription was involved in an overdose."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2435"
citation: "Virginia HB 2435 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41985905-bddf-429a-8fc6-b5de60980c66"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2435"
source_hash: "5cf9c841c0fc03ace1fd66c32d15d10a698b5e3d914de20cb5711f03e75c03db"
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 2435 (2025) — Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber.
Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a model policy for best practices for law-enforcement officers responding to or investigating an overdose to notify the prescriber of any controlled substance found to be in the possession of or ingested by the victim that such prescription was involved in an overdose.
## 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/1016783.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072710.PDF)
3. **Public Safety Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1035478.PDF)
4. **Public Safety Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036813.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068712.PDF)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Rereferred to Courts of Justice and rereferred to Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) — **120** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 1-N) — **51** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102471D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Assigned PS sub: Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 1-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-31** Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Committee substitute printed 25106513D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2435)
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Public Safety Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Rereferred to Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-19** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2435ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2435)
- **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 273 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41985905-bddf-429a-8fc6-b5de60980c66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).