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type: "Bill"
title: "Long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs; correctional facilities."
description: "Board of Pharmacy; long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs; correctional facilities. Allows the Board of Pharmacy to register a correctional facility to maintain a floor stock of long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs for the treatment of mental illness or substance use disorder. The bill requires such long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs to be stored in an area accessible only to persons who are licensed to administer such prescription drugs, regardless of whether the prescriber is on site. The bill provides that each correctional facility shall maintain an ongoing perpetual inventory of all such drugs in Schedules II through V and that such perpetual inventory shall (i) accurately indicate the physical count of each drug on hand at the time the inventory is performed and (ii) no less than once per month, include a reconciliation of each drug with a written explanation for any difference between the physical count and the theoretical count. This bill is identical to SB 1367."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2473"
citation: "Virginia HB 2473 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Sickles"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e02df120-b973-409b-8628-cbb1ee602d5e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2473"
source_hash: "7a2be5e803bfc7bc60131cf861a23a87585ac169646be9938d924fe9b57133ca"
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 2473 (2025) — Long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs; correctional facilities.
Board of Pharmacy; long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs; correctional facilities. Allows the Board of Pharmacy to register a correctional facility to maintain a floor stock of long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs for the treatment of mental illness or substance use disorder. The bill requires such long-acting injectable or extended-release prescription drugs to be stored in an area accessible only to persons who are licensed to administer such prescription drugs, regardless of whether the prescriber is on site. The bill provides that each correctional facility shall maintain an ongoing perpetual inventory of all such drugs in Schedules II through V and that such perpetual inventory shall (i) accurately indicate the physical count of each drug on hand at the time the inventory is performed and (ii) no less than once per month, include a reconciliation of each drug with a written explanation for any difference between the physical count and the theoretical count. This bill is identical to SB 1367.
## 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/1016435.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072939.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061460.PDF)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104390D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2473)
- **2025-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (13-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 (HB2473ER) `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 (HB2473)
- **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 278 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e02df120-b973-409b-8628-cbb1ee602d5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).