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+type: "Bill"
+title: "High school graduation; standard diploma requirements, etc."
+description: "High school graduation requirements; requiredcourses or credentials; dual enrollment. Permits high schoolstudents to fulfill a certain high school graduation course creditrequirement by completing a dual enrollment course in lieu of thecurrently required Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate,or honors course or Board of Education-approved career and technicaleducation credential."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 516"
+citation: "Virginia HB 516 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-04"
+last_action: "2020-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/521a091d-8468-4dce-b0ae-2f282fe441b5"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB516"
+source_hash: "818ff9e650035d49b257825c106b638e20db4d491da25ac696569889a78eed71"
+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 516 (2020) — High school graduation; standard diploma requirements, etc.
+
+High school graduation requirements; requiredcourses or credentials; dual enrollment. Permits high schoolstudents to fulfill a certain high school graduation course creditrequirement by completing a dual enrollment course in lieu of thecurrently required Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate,or honors course or Board of Education-approved career and technicaleducation credential.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0055)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0055)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB516ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB516ER)
+3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB516H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB516H1)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB516)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB516)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Education with substitute (19-Y 0-N) — **19–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
+- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103062D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-04** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB516)
+- **2020-01-20** Reported from Education with substitute (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-20** Committee substitute printed 20106138D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2020-01-20** Incorporates HB112 (McNamara)
+- **2020-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-23** Committee substitute agreed to 20106138D-H1
+- **2020-01-23** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB516H1
+- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB516H1)
+- **2020-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-01-24** VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-17** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB516ER)
+- **2020-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2020-02-24** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2020
+- **2020-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020
+- **2020-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 55 (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/521a091d-8468-4dce-b0ae-2f282fe441b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+