---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; enrollment, certain children placed in foster care."
description: "Public schools; enrollment; certain childrenplaced in foster care. Specifies, for the purpose of severalprovisions of law relating to the public school enrollment of childrenplaced in foster care, that a child or student placed in foster careincludes a pupil who was in foster care when he reached age 18 butsuch pupil has not yet reached age 22."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 368"
citation: "Virginia HB 368 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Carroll Foy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-01-02"
last_action: "2020-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4146c46-5997-40a8-b710-cc4af3ede7ee"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB368"
source_hash: "9fb5d4b79ee42fe382c4c8273cab70a078372a47a358a480396af01ceb3c7561"
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 368 (2020) — Public schools; enrollment, certain children placed in foster care.

Public schools; enrollment; certain childrenplaced in foster care. Specifies, for the purpose of severalprovisions of law relating to the public school enrollment of childrenplaced in foster care, that a child or student placed in foster careincludes a pupil who was in foster care when he reached age 18 butsuch pupil has not yet reached age 22.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0474)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB368ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB368ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB368)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB368)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB368H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB368H1)

## Votes

- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101141D `introduction`
- **2020-01-02** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB368)
- **2020-01-27** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-01-29** Committee substitute printed 20106142D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (HB368H1)
- **2020-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute agreed to 20106142D-H1
- **2020-02-07** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB368H1
- **2020-02-10** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB368ER)
- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
- **2020-03-06** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 474 (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/b4146c46-5997-40a8-b710-cc4af3ede7ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).