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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2303: Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 2303 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Large animal veterinary grant program; State Veterinarian to establish, report. Primary sponsor: Alfonso Lopez (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (March 21, 2025): Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Alfonso LopezPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse3
Josh ThomasCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse21

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)
  2. Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (Effective 07/01/25)
  3. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2303)
  4. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
  5. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
  6. Signed by President
  7. Signed by Speaker
  8. Enrolled bill reprinted 25106812D
  9. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2303ER)
  10. Enrolled
  11. Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
  12. Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source