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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Teacher licensure; written reprimand, suspension."
+description: "Board of Education; teacher licensure; written reprimand; suspension. Provides that when adopting regulations regarding the issuance of written reprimands of teachers and other school personnel required to hold a license, the Board of Education shall establish in such regulations the grounds for such written reprimands and provides that for a teacher who breaches his contract the local board of education or division superintendent, in addition to a written reprimand or revocation of the teacher's license as in current law, may issue a suspension of the teacher's license."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 1344"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1344 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Q. Askew"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-03-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcc71d55-2b4b-4b7c-baa5-d49d77dd3412"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1344"
+source_hash: "447a6089e48cb7b788a54de427d3c38826fcf0fc5b63d715890bf516c49638ed"
+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 1344 (2020) — Teacher licensure; written reprimand, suspension.
+
+Board of Education; teacher licensure; written reprimand; suspension. Provides that when adopting regulations regarding the issuance of written reprimands of teachers and other school personnel required to hold a license, the Board of Education shall establish in such regulations the grounds for such written reprimands and provides that for a teacher who breaches his contract the local board of education or division superintendent, in addition to a written reprimand or revocation of the teacher's license as in current law, may issue a suspension of the teacher's license.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0513)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1344ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1344ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1344)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1344)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104782D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB1344)
+- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-20** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB1344ER)
+- **2020-02-28** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-02** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 513 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcc71d55-2b4b-4b7c-baa5-d49d77dd3412`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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