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type: "Bill"
title: "Dentistry; license to teach, foreign dental program graduates."
description: "License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates. Allows the Board of Dentistry to grant, without examination,a faculty license to teach dentistry in an accredited dental programto a graduate of a dental school or college or the dental departmentof an institution of higher education in a foreign country that hasbeen granted a certification letter from the dean or program directorof an accredited dental program confirming that the applicant hasclinical competency and clinical experience that meet the credentialingstandards of the dental school with which the applicant is to beaffiliated. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 590"
citation: "Virginia SB 590 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37cfe28f-3bba-4a48-a05b-e8ebd67a9b9e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB590"
source_hash: "b0e77fc96cd4c0c1c41434a9ea445f09e1ace3107474149d506cb00d8b17d059"
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 590 (2022) — Dentistry; license to teach, foreign dental program graduates.
License to teach dentistry; foreign dental program graduates. Allows the Board of Dentistry to grant, without examination,a faculty license to teach dentistry in an accredited dental programto a graduate of a dental school or college or the dental departmentof an institution of higher education in a foreign country that hasbeen granted a certification letter from the dean or program directorof an accredited dental program confirming that the applicant hasclinical competency and clinical experience that meet the credentialingstandards of the dental school with which the applicant is to beaffiliated. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2025.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0145** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0145)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100987D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB590)
3. **SB590ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB590ER)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100987D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB590)
- **2022-01-25** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-04** Enrolled
- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB590ER)
- **2022-03-04** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Conferees appointed by House
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 145 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37cfe28f-3bba-4a48-a05b-e8ebd67a9b9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).