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+type: "Bill"
+title: "School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education."
+description: "School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 1404"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1404 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e561d138-1ae2-43be-835c-45a6dc1e08bd"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1404"
+source_hash: "2cb44e1e46b06f79599717b1d364cf16cb8e064414b0c98eba0ebaa2cbddd171"
+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 SB 1404 (2023) — School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0009** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0009)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102800D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1404)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 23102800D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1404E)
+4. **SB1404ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1404ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Rules with amendments (17-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102800D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB1404)
+- **2023-02-03** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-02-03** Reported from Rules with amendments (17-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-06** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2023-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1404E
+- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-06** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-06** Printed as engrossed 23102800D-E
+- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB1404E)
+- **2023-02-08** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1404ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB1404ER)
+- **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`
+- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 9 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-16** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e561d138-1ae2-43be-835c-45a6dc1e08bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+