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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public school building security enhancements; compliance with Uniform Statewide Building Code, etc."
+description: "Requires each school board, in consultation with the local building official and the state or local fire marshal, to develop a procurement plan to ensure that all security enhancements to public school buildings are in compliance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code and Statewide Fire Prevention Code."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1725"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1725 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education", "Fire Protection"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barry D. Knight"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-12-18"
+last_action: "2019-02-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25cb6d6d-b505-4abd-a32b-2c4f5b3e511e"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1725"
+source_hash: "5099b916e0057719efa166dea71e13587f083d87228c3f5d670287507f82e1c2"
+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 1725 (2019) — Public school building security enhancements; compliance with Uniform Statewide Building Code, etc.
+
+Requires each school board, in consultation with the local building official and the state or local fire marshal, to develop a procurement plan to ensure that all security enhancements to public school buildings are in compliance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code and Statewide Fire Prevention Code.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0121)
+2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1725AH)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1725ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1725ER)
+4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102593D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1725)
+5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102593D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1725E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
+- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
+- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Kirkland Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
+- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-12-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102593D `introduction`
+- **2018-12-18** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-21** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-21** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2019-01-21** Engrossed by House as amended HB1725E
+- **2019-01-21** Printed as engrossed 19102593D-E
+- **2019-01-22** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
+- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 121 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25cb6d6d-b505-4abd-a32b-2c4f5b3e511e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+