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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 SB 194.
Introduced
Jan 6, 2026
Last Action
Mar 10, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
Enrolled
Signed by President
Signed by Speaker
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB156ER)
Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
Read third time
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
committee substitute agreed to
Read second time
Read first time
Committee substitute printed 26106252D-H1
Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
House subcommittee offered
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 1-N)
Assigned sub: Health Professions
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB156)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103242D
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
Get a plain-English explanation of what this bill does, who it affects, and why it matters.
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Paul E. Krizek