---
type: "Bill"
title: "Division superintendents; appointment by school board."
description: "Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon the request of a school board, to grant such school board up to an additional 180 days to appoint a new division superintendent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Virginia HB 81 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul E. Krizek"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-07"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5db8fe3d-52f3-46e5-9d19-e72a18fb2248"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB81"
source_hash: "af0db8c027d8cff1321e0e3599efde40166cd82eca117741179b4428f19fd3dd"
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 81 (2018) — Division superintendents; appointment by school board.

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon the request of a school board, to grant such school board up to an additional 180 days to appoint a new division superintendent.

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB81ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB81ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105842D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB81H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101003D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB81)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with substitute — **21–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Paul E. Krizek — primary (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101003D `introduction`
- **2017-12-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 18105842D-H1
- **2018-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB81H1
- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 136 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5db8fe3d-52f3-46e5-9d19-e72a18fb2248`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).