---
type: "Bill"
title: "Technical professional licenses; military science endorsement."
description: "State Board of Education; technical professional licenses; military science endorsement. Directs the State Board of Education to amend its regulations to require that persons seeking a technical professional license with an endorsement to teach military science have either the appropriate credentials issued by the United States military or a recommendation from a Virginia employing educational agency. This bill is identical to SB 978."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1568"
citation: "Virginia HB 1568 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Rush"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c49ba36-da4c-4d79-a462-9c1b58cc924f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1568"
source_hash: "5a83f3f2dcb5e9ac1aa7fb4ac8046921e71ad09032acaba33e0f640153d8263e"
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 1568 (2020) — Technical professional licenses; military science endorsement.

State Board of Education; technical professional licenses; military science endorsement. Directs the State Board of Education to amend its regulations to require that persons seeking a technical professional license with an endorsement to teach military science have either the appropriate credentials issued by the United States military or a recommendation from a Virginia employing educational agency. This bill is identical to SB 978.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0108)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1568ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1568ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1568)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1568)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nick Rush — primary (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** Presented and ordered printed 20105337D `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB1568)
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-17** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-20** Enrolled
- **2020-02-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB1568ER)
- **2020-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-21** Signed by President
- **2020-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2020
- **2020-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 3, 2020
- **2020-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 108 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c49ba36-da4c-4d79-a462-9c1b58cc924f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).