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Board of Medicine; office-based buprenorphine treatment; counseling. Directs the Board of Medicine to amend its regulations regarding office-based buprenorphine treatment to require providers to offer counseling or referral to counseling to each patient as clinically necessary and mutually agreed-upon. The bill specifies that a patient's refusal of counseling does not preclude the patient from receiving office-based buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care and is identical to HB 712.
Introduced
Jan 14, 2026
Last Action
Mar 10, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 12 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 DPB (3/2/2026 2:20 pm)
Enrolled
Signed by President
Signed by Speaker
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB641ER)
Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)
Read third time
Read second time
Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N)
Read first time
Placed on Calendar
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
Read second time
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day
Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB641)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104754D
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Todd E. Pillion
Luther Cifers, III
Christie New Craig
T. Travis Hackworth
Ryan T. McDougle
Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Mark D. Obenshain
Mark J. Peake
Bryce E. Reeves
William M. Stanley, Jr.
Richard H. Stuart