---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; parental review of certain anti-bullying and suicide prevention materials."
description: "Public schools; parental review of certain anti-bullying and suicide prevention materials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2107"
citation: "Virginia HB 2107 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret B. Ransone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfe17fd9-06c1-4cf3-b624-e0468a0cba4c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2107"
source_hash: "1e787ec6b0322ea0d98c30c0946d2ca42463cb9191fcf7f95d3b8486abc5f06b"
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 2107 (2019) — Public schools; parental review of certain anti-bullying and suicide prevention materials.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0581)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2107ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2107ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104206D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2107)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **86–13** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education — **20–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Margaret B. Ransone — primary (person)
- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104206D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House (86-Y 13-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 581 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfe17fd9-06c1-4cf3-b624-e0468a0cba4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).