---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education, Board of; geographic representation of members."
description: "Board of Education; membership; geographic representation.Requires the nine-member Board of Education to include at leastfive members, appointed by the Governor, who each reside in differentsuperintendent's regions in the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1827"
citation: "Virginia HB 1827 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2021-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c88969c-1559-498c-8af0-a8f49ce8faa1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1827"
source_hash: "994afec2bf85e126b69f2f2d8d802374b92c9d1f49f5826addce03380703a4fc"
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 1827 (2021) — Education, Board of; geographic representation of members.

Board of Education; membership; geographic representation.Requires the nine-member Board of Education to include at leastfive members, appointed by the Governor, who each reside in differentsuperintendent's regions in the Commonwealth.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0021** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0021)
2. **HB1827ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1827ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101303D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1827)

## Votes

- VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (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 (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101303D `introduction`
- **2021-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1827)
- **2021-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- **2021-02-03** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-05** Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-05** 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)
- **2021-02-11** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
- **2021-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1827ER)
- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2021
- **2021-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 26, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c88969c-1559-498c-8af0-a8f49ce8faa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).