---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teacher licensure; provisional license."
description: "Requires the Board of Education, in its regulations providing for licensure by reciprocity, to grant special consideration to individuals who have successfully completed a program offered by a provider that is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to develop guidelines that establish a process to permit a school board or any organization sponsored by a school board to petition the Board for approval of an alternate route to licensure that may be used to meet the requirements for a provisional or renewable license or any endorsement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2486"
citation: "Virginia HB 2486 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/444558e4-01d6-4cf6-8c12-e2a8d1ffb7aa"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2486"
source_hash: "b274bc06520cd36ea70e876c6319efc8750c45d96d90642a3e50b4e4abe8415e"
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 2486 (2019) — Teacher licensure; provisional license.

Requires the Board of Education, in its regulations providing for licensure by reciprocity, to grant special consideration to individuals who have successfully completed a program offered by a provider that is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to develop guidelines that establish a process to permit a school board or any organization sponsored by a school board to petition the Board for approval of an alternate route to licensure that may be used to meet the requirements for a provisional or renewable license or any endorsement.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0409)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2486)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2486ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2486ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105579D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2486H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101521D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2486)
6. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106890D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2486S1)

## Votes

- Reported from Education with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106890D-S1 — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101521D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 19105579D-H1
- **2019-01-31** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2486H1
- **2019-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Incorporates HB1643 (Hope)
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-02-18** Committee substitute agreed to 19106890D-S1
- **2019-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2486S1
- **2019-02-19** Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106890D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 409 (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/444558e4-01d6-4cf6-8c12-e2a8d1ffb7aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).