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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 HB 2303.
Introduced
Jan 6, 2025
Last Action
Mar 21, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 3 co
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262)
Approved by Governor-Chapter 262 (Effective 07/01/25)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
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 Senate and House (SB921ER)
Signed by Speaker
Enrolled
Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Amended by conference committee
Delegates: Lopez, Willett, Tata
Conferees appointed by House
Conferees appointed by Senate
Senators: Hackworth, Pekarsky, Williams Graves
Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
House insisted on substitute
House requested conference committee
House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
Read third time
Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N)
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
Appropriations Substitute agreed to
Read second time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
Committee substitute printed 25107020D-H1
Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Read first time
Placed on Calendar
Read second time
Reading of substitute waived
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
Rules suspended
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
Committee substitute printed 25106417D-S1
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
Assigned ACNR sub: Rural
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102893D
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Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262)
T. Travis Hackworth