Committee unanimously backs HB1052 to add a pharmacy technician to Virginia Board of Pharmacy

Delegate Phillips presented HB1052 to the House Health and Human Services Committee, proposing the addition of a pharmacy technician to the Virginia Board of Pharmacy.

Phillips said the board currently has eight pharmacists and two citizen members and that the change would provide “frontline operational insight” into proposed regulations. He cited workforce figures for 2024, saying there were 13,948 registered pharmacy technicians and 8,016 technician trainees in Virginia.

Luke Priddy, representing the Virginia Society of Health System Pharmacists, told the committee the society has found a pharmacy technician’s perspective helpful on its own board and expressed support for the change: “This is just a simple bill that adds a pharm tech to the board.” With no opposition recorded, the committee moved and reported HB1052 by a vote of 16 to 0.

The committee’s vote sends the measure forward in the legislative process; the transcript does not record the bill’s next specific procedural step.