SB921
Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102893D
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/16/2025 - Senate: Assigned ACNR sub: Rural
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106417D-S1
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/06/2025 - House: Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 02/10/2025 - House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25107020D-H1
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/13/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/13/2025 - House: Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 02/13/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/13/2025 - House: Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- 02/18/2025 - House: House insisted on substitute
- 02/18/2025 - House: House requested conference committee
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Senators: Hackworth, Pekarsky, Williams Graves
- 02/20/2025 - House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/20/2025 - House: Delegates: Lopez, Willett, Tata
- 02/21/2025 - Amended by conference committee
- 02/21/2025 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/2025 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB921ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/20/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB921)
- 03/21/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 262 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/21/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262)
