Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report.
Summary
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.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 8, 2025
Signed Mar 21, 2025
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The bill was formally enacted into law and assigned Chapter 258 of the 2025 Virginia Acts of Assembly. The approval date was updated to March 21, 2025, and the document was reprinted as an official enrolled act.
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Added the official chapter number (Chapter 258) and the specific approval date (March 21, 2025) to the legislative text.
Removed the generic 'Approved' placeholder text and the reprint header labels, replacing them with the finalized official status.
Floor votes · Senate Feb 6, 2025 · House of Delegates Jan 30, 2025
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 6, 2025
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
42
Key actions
13
Committee
10
Mar 21, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2303ER)
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Legislature · Passed
Amended by conference committee
legislature
Feb 13, 2025
Committee
Senate requested conference committee
upper
Feb 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 6, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 5, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 31, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
upper
Jan 30, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 17, 2025
Committee
Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
lower
Jan 8, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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