---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools, child day programs, and certain other programs; carbon monoxide detectors required."
description: "Public schools, child day programs, and certainother programs; carbon monoxide detectors required. Requireseach building that was built before 2015 and that houses any publicschool classroom for students, licensed child day program, or otherprogram that serves preschool-age children to be equipped with atleast one carbon monoxide detector."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1823"
citation: "Virginia HB 1823 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Q. Askew"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9465ec7-eb4f-4ff3-b5a2-0025b7078823"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1823"
source_hash: "51176ec6da5f6c9ab317da74f64c1747c095cd5816cc8ebb5f4541875eced342"
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 1823 (2021) — Public schools, child day programs, and certain other programs; carbon monoxide detectors required.

Public schools, child day programs, and certainother programs; carbon monoxide detectors required. Requireseach building that was built before 2015 and that houses any publicschool classroom for students, licensed child day program, or otherprogram that serves preschool-age children to be equipped with atleast one carbon monoxide detector.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0165** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0165)
2. **HB1823ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1823ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101635D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1823)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 1-N) — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101635D `introduction`
- **2021-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1823)
- **2021-01-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- **2021-01-18** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-19** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-21** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-21** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N)
- **2021-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-22** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed by temporarily
- **2021-02-22** Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB1823ER)
- **2021-02-25** Signed by President
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 165 (effective - see bill) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9465ec7-eb4f-4ff3-b5a2-0025b7078823`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).