---
type: "Bill"
title: "Graduation requirements; verified units of credit, satisfactory score on the PSAT examination."
description: "Requires the Board of Education, in establishing graduation requirements, to provide for the award of verified units of credit for a satisfactory score, as determined by the Board, on the Preliminary ACT (PreACT) or the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) examination."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1982"
citation: "Virginia HB 1982 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas A. \"Tag\" Greason"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd04b103-6557-4307-9a5d-eedd0c1b8fe2"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1982"
source_hash: "c67b41678792fbd2156c1c0040af03f960c13836e2d7084f13af23e39c47a715"
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 1982 (2017) — Graduation requirements; verified units of credit, satisfactory score on the PSAT examination.

Requires the Board of Education, in establishing graduation requirements, to provide for the award of verified units of credit for a satisfactory score, as determined by the Board, on the Preliminary ACT (PreACT) or the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) examination.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0685)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1982ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1982ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104287D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1982H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101318D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1982)
5. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105556D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1982S1)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105556D-S1 — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101318D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 17104287D-H1
- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1982H1
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 17105556D-S1
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1982S1
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105556D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 685 (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/dd04b103-6557-4307-9a5d-eedd0c1b8fe2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).