---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Standards of Learning; advanced directive education for high school students."
description: "Board of Education; Health Standards of Learning;advanced directive education. Directs the Board of Educationto include advanced directive education in its curriculum frameworkfor the Health Standards of Learning for high school students."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1190"
citation: "Virginia SB 1190 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer A. Kiggans"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b31b7e6-2bf9-4bc3-bf82-8dcfc063a1ad"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1190"
source_hash: "83ee1e4c91b9a765fe0ae8e15b89237053eb1a02c8d21990a90925272d5b3b22"
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 1190 (2021) — Health Standards of Learning; advanced directive education for high school students.

Board of Education; Health Standards of Learning;advanced directive education. Directs the Board of Educationto include advanced directive education in its curriculum frameworkfor the Health Standards of Learning for high school students.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0294** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0294)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102473D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1190)
3. **SB1190ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1190ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 3-N) — **11–3** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Education — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N) — **92–6** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 8-N) — **31–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer A. Kiggans — primary (person)
- Bill D. Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102473D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-15** Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-18** Passed by for the day
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB1190)
- **2021-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Education
- **2021-02-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed House (93-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N)
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled
- **2021-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB1190ER)
- **2021-02-24** Signed by President
- **2021-02-25** 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 294 (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/9b31b7e6-2bf9-4bc3-bf82-8dcfc063a1ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).