HB2303
Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report.
Summary
As Introduced. 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. This bill is identical to SB 921. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102597D
- 01/08/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/17/2025 - House: Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 01/21/2025 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 01/22/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
- 01/22/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2025 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 01/24/2025 - House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/29/2025 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/30/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106812D-S1
- 02/06/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/06/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2025 - House: Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 94-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/14/2025 - House: House acceded to request
- 02/14/2025 - House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/14/2025 - House: Delegates: Lopez, Willett, Tata
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Senators: Hackworth, Deeds, McPike
- 02/21/2025 - Amended by conference committee
- 02/21/2025 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/2025 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2303ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled bill reprinted 25106812D
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - House: 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 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
- 03/21/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/21/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)
