SB 641 — Office-based buprenorphine treatment; Board of Medicine to amend regulations.
VA 20261 session
Board of Medicine; office-based buprenorphine treatment; counseling. Directs the Board of Medicine to amend its regulations regarding office-based buprenorphine treatment to require providers to offer counseling or referral to counseling to each patient as clinically necessary and mutually agreed-upon. The bill specifies that a patient's refusal of counseling does not preclude the patient from receiving office-based buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Health Care and is identical to HB 712.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (13)
- Todd E. Pillion (R, VA) — sponsor
- Luther Cifers, III (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Christie New Craig (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Timmy French (R, VA) — cosponsor
- T. Travis Hackworth (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Ryan T. McDougle (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Tammy Brankley Mulchi (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Mark D. Obenshain (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Mark J. Peake (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Bryce E. Reeves (R, VA) — cosponsor
- William M. Stanley, Jr. (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Richard H. Stuart (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. (R, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (30)
- · senate · S4020 —
- · senate · S0401 —
- · senate · S8500 —
- · senate · S0412 —
- · senate · S0405 —
- · senate · S4150 —
- · senate · S4140 —
- · senate · S4160 —
- · senate · S4160 —
- · senate · S4120 —
- · senate · S4600 —
- · senate · S5000 —
- · senate · S8122 —
- · house · H5220 —
- · house · H4110 —
- · house · H2401 —
- · house · H2405 —
- · house · H4120 —
- · house · H4130 —
- · house · H5100 —
- · senate · S5610 —
- · senate · S5601 —
- · house · H5620 —
- · senate · S5620 —
- · senate · S8500 —
- · senate · S7010 —
- · G7010 —
- · G7050 —
- · G7050 —
- · G9998 —
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Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Todd E. Pillion (R, state_upper VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Bryce E. Reeves (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Christie New Craig (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Luther Cifers, III (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Mark D. Obenshain (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Mark J. Peake (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Richard H. Stuart (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Ryan T. McDougle (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | T. Travis Hackworth (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Tammy Brankley Mulchi (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Timmy French (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | William M. Stanley, Jr. (R, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no