republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/sb-194.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic death reg. system; requiring certain applicants for licensure to complete training."
description: "Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing; licensure renewal; electronic death registration system; death certificates. Requires the Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing to amend their applications for licensure and licensure renewal to require doctors of medicine and osteopathic medicine, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to indicate if they expect their scope of practice to include signing death certificates and, if so, to indicate that they have completed the online tutorial for the Electronic Death Registration System on the Department of Health website. This bill is identical to HB 156."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 194"
citation: "Virginia SB 194 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angelia Williams Graves"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-01-09"
last_action: "2026-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfbfacc5-f5b5-4701-baf0-7ce05c2ce3ed"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB194"
source_hash: "e14be795bf2cb8de2b9849881b2273e4d84c8ee35964da5611dd8781926a8ab9"
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 SB 194 (2026) — Electronic death reg. system; requiring certain applicants for licensure to complete training.

Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing; licensure renewal; electronic death registration system; death certificates. Requires the Board of Medicine and Board of Nursing to amend their applications for licensure and licensure renewal to require doctors of medicine and osteopathic medicine, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to indicate if they expect their scope of practice to include signing death certificates and, if so, to indicate that they have completed the online tutorial for the Electronic Death Registration System on the Department of Health website. This bill is identical to HB 156.

## 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/1083549.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1214905.PDF)
3. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1104875.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1178900.PDF)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health and Human Services — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102771D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB194)
- **2026-01-23** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** Senate subcommittee offered
- **2026-01-28** Senate subcommittee offered
- **2026-01-29** Senate committee offered
- **2026-01-29** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (11-Y 1-N 3-A) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-30** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-01-30** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-30** Committee substitute printed 26105998D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-02-02** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-02-03** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB194)
- **2026-02-19** Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-24** Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-02-26** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB194ER) `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB194)
- **2026-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 16 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-31** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfbfacc5-f5b5-4701-baf0-7ce05c2ce3ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).