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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Alternatives to suspension; Board of Education shall establish guidelines for local school boards."
+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: "SB 829"
+citation: "Virginia SB 829 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Education"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer T. Wexton"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2016-11-10"
+last_action: "2017-03-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44836dfc-c068-4cd3-b3e9-1b27a1fabe8b"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB829"
+source_hash: "bbf027da864521c2eadd9d718d685706f7af45783639f1fd102a64ec14023cd9"
+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 SB 829 (2017) — Alternatives to suspension; Board of Education shall establish guidelines for local school boards.
+
+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 (CHAP0303)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0303)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB829ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB829ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100600D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB829)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education — **21–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House — **85–13** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jennifer T. Wexton — primary (person)
+- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-11-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100600D `introduction`
+- **2016-11-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-08** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-15** Passed House (85-Y 13-N) `passage`
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
+- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 303 (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/44836dfc-c068-4cd3-b3e9-1b27a1fabe8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+