---
type: "Bill"
title: "High school family life education curricula; effective and evidence-based programs on consent."
description: "Provides that any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division may incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the law and meaning of consent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2257"
citation: "Virginia HB 2257 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eileen Filler-Corn"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6037804f-f267-44e7-a03b-d69393c86928"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2257"
source_hash: "1ef4ab27e0e773a4ced2e278c427927f460454bc800a7a3124c7b00ba9b3cd9c"
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 2257 (2017) — High school family life education curricula; effective and evidence-based programs on consent.

Provides that any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division may incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the law and meaning of consent.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0299)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2257ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2257ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100874D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2257)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17100874D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2257E)
5. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105326D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2257S1)

## Votes

- Passed Senate with substitute — **38–2** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with amendment — **19–2** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **13–2** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **83–11** (pass) · legislature
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105326D-S1 — **92–4** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eileen Filler-Corn — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100874D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-02** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-03** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended HB2257E
- **2017-02-03** Printed as engrossed 17100874D-E
- **2017-02-06** Read third time and passed House (83-Y 11-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-13** Committee substitute agreed to 17105326D-S1
- **2017-02-13** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2257S1
- **2017-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-15** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105326D-S1 (92-Y 4-N)
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 299 (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/6037804f-f267-44e7-a03b-d69393c86928`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).