---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers in certain schools for students with disabilities; extension of provisional licenses."
description: "Teachers in certain schools for students withdisabilities; provisional licenses; extension. Requires the Boardof Education to extend for at least one additional year, but forno more than two additional years, the three-year provisional licenseof a teacher employed in a school for students with disabilitiesthat is licensed by the Board upon receiving from the school administratorof such school (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactoryperformance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the originalthree-year provisional license. The provisions of the bill mirrorcurrent law relating to the extension of provisional licenses forpublic school teachers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 680"
citation: "Virginia SB 680 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Montgomery \"Monty\" Mason"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3a7ea7e-8e74-428e-89bd-59312be30e28"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB680"
source_hash: "064e604db548e1b8df241ab11d96f98fec2f64ad202423628a358d225af4e35c"
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 SB 680 (2020) — Teachers in certain schools for students with disabilities; extension of provisional licenses.

Teachers in certain schools for students withdisabilities; provisional licenses; extension. Requires the Boardof Education to extend for at least one additional year, but forno more than two additional years, the three-year provisional licenseof a teacher employed in a school for students with disabilitiesthat is licensed by the Board upon receiving from the school administratorof such school (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactoryperformance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the originalthree-year provisional license. The provisions of the bill mirrorcurrent law relating to the extension of provisional licenses forpublic school teachers.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0172)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0172)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB680ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB680ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB680)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB680)

## Votes

- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103610D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB680)
- **2020-01-27** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-10** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-20** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Enrolled
- **2020-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-25** Signed by President
- **2020-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB680ER)
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 28, 2020
- **2020-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 6, 2020
- **2020-03-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 172 (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/c3a7ea7e-8e74-428e-89bd-59312be30e28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).