---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social-emotional learning; DOE to develop guidance standards."
description: "Department of Education; social-emotional learning and development. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish a uniform definition of social-emotional learning and develop guidance standards for social-emotional learning for all public students in grades kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth; (ii) make such standards available to each local school division no later than July 1, 2021; and (iii) issue a report no later than November 1, 2021, on the resources needed to successfully support local school divisions with the implementation of a statewide social-emotional learning program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 753"
citation: "Virginia HB 753 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0860e5d6-9cf4-4348-ab52-8c1f365c61e9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB753"
source_hash: "cd07a6aeddc40127d1e3ab5235b78bd3d6408f469bcb34c56b70eb6923289a7e"
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 753 (2020) — Social-emotional learning; DOE to develop guidance standards.

Department of Education; social-emotional learning and development. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish a uniform definition of social-emotional learning and develop guidance standards for social-emotional learning for all public students in grades kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth; (ii) make such standards available to each local school division no later than July 1, 2021; and (iii) issue a report no later than November 1, 2021, on the resources needed to successfully support local school divisions with the implementation of a statewide social-emotional learning program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0339)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB753ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB753ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB753H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB753H1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB753)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB753)

## Votes

- Reported from Education with amendment (17-Y 5-N) — **17–5** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (72-Y 26-N) — **71–26** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (27-Y 11-N) — **27–11** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101223D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-20** Reported from Education with amendment (17-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-20** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB753)
- **2020-01-24** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-27** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-27** Committee substitute printed 20106542D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-27** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** Committee amendment rejected
- **2020-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 20106542D-H1
- **2020-01-30** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB753H1
- **2020-01-31** Read third time and passed House (72-Y 26-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-31** VOTE: Passage (72-Y 26-N)
- **2020-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB753H1)
- **2020-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-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 by temporarily
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (27-Y 11-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB753ER)
- **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
- **2020-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 339 (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/0860e5d6-9cf4-4348-ab52-8c1f365c61e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).