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State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal veterinarians, as defined in the bill, practicing in areas of the Commonwealth that have been identified by the State Veterinarian as having a shortage of such veterinarians. The bill directs the State Veterinarian to annually select from a pool of applicants no more than four large animal veterinarians to participate in the program and to develop, in consultation with the Board of Veterinary Medicine and relevant stakeholders, selection criteria for applicants to participate in the program. The bill also requires the State Veterinarian to submit a report evaluating the extent to which the program has helped to address the shortage of large animal veterinarians in the Commonwealth to the Board and the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources no later than July 1, 2030. This bill is identical to SB 921.
Introduced
Jan 8, 2025
Last Action
Mar 21, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)
Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (Effective 07/01/25)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
Signed by President
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2303ER)
Signed by Speaker
Enrolled bill reprinted 25106812D
Enrolled
Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
Amended by conference committee
Senators: Hackworth, Deeds, McPike
Conferees appointed by Senate
Conferees appointed by House
Delegates: Lopez, Willett, Tata
House acceded to request
Senate requested conference committee
Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 94-N)
Read third time
Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
Passed by for the day
Rules suspended
Committee substitute printed 25106812D-S1
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)
Read second time and engrossed
Read first time
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102597D
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Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)
Alfonso H. Lopez
Joshua E. Thomas