---
type: "Bill"
title: "School boards; annual report on pupil/teacher ratios in elementary, middle, etc., school classrooms."
description: "Requires each school board to annually report to the public the actual pupil/teacher ratios in middle school and high school by school for the current school year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2174"
citation: "Virginia HB 2174 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathleen Murphy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae68e2bd-472a-44fb-9716-ec4751fbf268"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2174"
source_hash: "f4491744946e684204273b352da066ce9edff42a7c1edd5cbfeddcf06fbbd6d2"
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 2174 (2017) — School boards; annual report on pupil/teacher ratios in elementary, middle, etc., school classrooms.

Requires each school board to annually report to the public the actual pupil/teacher ratios in middle school and high school by school for the current school year.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0321)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2174ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2174ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104662D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2174H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103665D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2174)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 17104662D-EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2174EH1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **53–44** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **58–38** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **10–5** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **75–21** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations with amendments — **18–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **38–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with substitute — **16–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kathleen Murphy — primary (person)
- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
- James M. LeMunyon — cosponsor (person)
- Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103665D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Education Committee substitute agreed to 17104662D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Appropriations Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB2174EH1
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17104662D-EH1
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (53-Y 44-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** 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 amendment waived
- **2017-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate amendment agreed to by House (75-Y 21-N)
- **2017-02-21** Reconsideration of Senate amendment agreed to by House
- **2017-02-21** Senate amendment agreed to by House (58-Y 38-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
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 321 (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/ae68e2bd-472a-44fb-9716-ec4751fbf268`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).