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+type: "Bill"
+title: "School boards; work-based learning experiences for students, notification."
+description: "Requires each school board to implement a plan to notify students and their parents of the availability of internships, externships, apprenticeships, credentialing programs, certification programs, licensure programs, and other work-based learning experiences."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 399"
+citation: "Virginia HB 399 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-05"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eea9e66b-7d83-451e-83f6-c7d93a1ec978"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB399"
+source_hash: "f85d36f281c777a97d92f0e8d877d6febbdda54e753c4a102d33b0404644dbe1"
+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 399 (2018) — School boards; work-based learning experiences for students, notification.
+
+Requires each school board to implement a plan to notify students and their parents of the availability of internships, externships, apprenticeships, credentialing programs, certification programs, licensure programs, and other work-based learning experiences.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB399ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB399ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102958D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB399)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
+- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102958D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-05** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 138 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eea9e66b-7d83-451e-83f6-c7d93a1ec978`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+