---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; suspensions."
description: "Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1924"
citation: "Virginia HB 1924 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4c937dd-d541-4e85-8b0a-4512ee47db73"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1924"
source_hash: "38915ece2a781d3cbdb3707b5148a606610f83036658e3e665f05ffec6669028"
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 1924 (2017) — Public schools; suspensions.

Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0231)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1924ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1924ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102230D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1924)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health — **13–2** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **82–12** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **38–2** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Daun S. Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102230D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House (82-Y 12-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4c937dd-d541-4e85-8b0a-4512ee47db73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).