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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Deceased high school seniors; waiver of graduation requirements and award of posthumous programs."
+description: "Deceased high school seniors; waiver of graduation requirements and award of posthumous programs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1514"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1514 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adams, D.M."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-04"
+last_action: "2023-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5740210a-a532-4dfd-aab1-e83e172f5918"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1514"
+source_hash: "4652f56db97c460366b96adcb5ec3803e652bf73fddc2497ab9a11b372de6c9f"
+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 1514 (2023) — Deceased high school seniors; waiver of graduation requirements and award of posthumous programs.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0007** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0007)
+2. **HB1514ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1514ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101937D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1514)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adams, D.M. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101937D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-04** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB1514)
+- **2023-01-23** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-27** Passed by for the day
+- **2023-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-30** VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1514ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1514ER)
+- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 7 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-16** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5740210a-a532-4dfd-aab1-e83e172f5918`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+