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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public schools; suspensions."
+description: "Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1924"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1924 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Education"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-02-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4c937dd-d541-4e85-8b0a-4512ee47db73"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1924"
+source_hash: "38915ece2a781d3cbdb3707b5148a606610f83036658e3e665f05ffec6669028"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1924 (2017) — Public schools; suspensions.
+
+Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0231)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1924ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1924ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102230D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1924)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education and Health — **13–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **82–12** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **38–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
+- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Daun S. Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
+- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
+- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102230D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House (82-Y 12-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
+- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
+- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4c937dd-d541-4e85-8b0a-4512ee47db73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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