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type: "Bill"
title: "Women's Health, Commission on; established, report."
description: "Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on issues related to women's and maternal health. The Commission consists of 15 members, 10 of whom are legislative members and five of whom are nonlegislative citizen members with significant experience or expertise in women's or maternal health policy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2617"
citation: "Virginia HB 2617 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candi Mundon King"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5d0d2c1-15d5-45a6-8d3d-fc583e9ffeef"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2617"
source_hash: "f310ac892a10f8af4be6092ae6fc311b04b8ad73642b9843f16bf54c95d3b202"
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 2617 (2025) — Women's Health, Commission on; established, report.
Commission on Women's Health established; report. Establishes the Commission on Women's Health as a permanent commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on issues related to women's and maternal health. The Commission consists of 15 members, 10 of whom are legislative members and five of whom are nonlegislative citizen members with significant experience or expertise in women's or maternal health policy.
## 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/1019298.PDF)
2. **Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1037785.PDF)
3. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077600.PDF)
4. **Rules Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052707.HTML)
5. **Senate Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1059955.HTML)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1065120.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Rules with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules and rereferred to Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- 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
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Candi Mundon King — primary (person)
- Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-13** Presented and ordered printed 25104699D `introduction`
- **2025-01-13** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2617)
- **2025-01-29** Reported from Rules and referred to Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Assigned Approps sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Committee substitute printed 25106590D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-03** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2617)
- **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 Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** Reported from Rules with amendment (15-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** Reading of amendment waived
- **2025-02-18** Rules Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Senate Amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2617ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2617)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **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`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 572 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5d0d2c1-15d5-45a6-8d3d-fc583e9ffeef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).