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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Discipline; suspension, access to graded work during and after suspension."
+description: "Discipline; suspension; access to graded work. Requires school boards to adopt policies and procedures to ensure suspended students are able to access and complete graded work during and after the suspension."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 415"
+citation: "Virginia HB 415 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-02"
+last_action: "2020-03-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12ceb956-cb9d-4f3e-95ad-23e2fc19e36a"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB415"
+source_hash: "e4de62999c33377b10af800be41f69f007deaad96d3488c35d5a085881b811d4"
+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 415 (2020) — Discipline; suspension, access to graded work during and after suspension.
+
+Discipline; suspension; access to graded work. Requires school boards to adopt policies and procedures to ensure suspended students are able to access and complete graded work during and after the suspension.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0337)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB415ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB415ER)
+3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB415E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB415E)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB415)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB415)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education with amendments (19-Y 1-N) — **19–1** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (3-Y 2-N) — **3–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
+- Nancy D. Guy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100690D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-02** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (HB415)
+- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-27** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (3-Y 2-N)
+- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education with amendments (19-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-03** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended HB415E
+- **2020-02-03** Printed as engrossed 20100690D-E
+- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-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`
+- **2020-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB415E)
+- **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`
+- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB415ER)
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-06** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
+- **2020-03-06** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 337 (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/12ceb956-cb9d-4f3e-95ad-23e2fc19e36a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+