---
type: "Bill"
title: "Standards of Quality; employment of principals and assistant principals."
description: "Standards of Quality; employment of principals and assistant principals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022S1"
identifier: "SB 490"
citation: "Virginia SB 490 (2022S1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McClellan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 54
vote_count: 14
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f43e763-52ea-4bb4-ba6b-fcaa07255270"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?222+sum+SB490"
source_hash: "a3a7083537ada076d5ec4a6eb3699f2e7bb43e13e01fe6e927559b4f53feb961"
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 490 (2022S1) — Standards of Quality; employment of principals and assistant principals.

## 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?222+ful+CHAP0021)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22106274D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?222+ful+SB490S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 22106876D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?222+ful+SB490H1)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102879D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?222+ful+SB490)
5. **SB490ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?222+ful+SB490ER)

## Votes

- Conference report agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 4-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- House substitute rejected by Senate (5-Y 34-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute (15-Y 7-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (92-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- McClellan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102879D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB490)
- **2022-02-08** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-09** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-09** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Committee substitute printed 22106274D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-11** Committee substitute agreed to 22106274D-S1
- **2022-02-11** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB490S1
- **2022-02-14** Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Education with substitute (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Committee substitute printed 22106876D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-28** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB490H1)
- **2022-03-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Committee substitute agreed to 22106876D-H1
- **2022-03-07** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB490H1
- **2022-03-07** Passed House with substitute (90-Y 8-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N)
- **2022-03-08** House substitute rejected by Senate (5-Y 34-N)
- **2022-03-09** House insisted on substitute
- **2022-03-09** House requested conference committee
- **2022-03-10** Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2022-03-10** Conferees appointed by House
- **2022-03-12** Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455
- **2022-06-01** Amended by conference committee
- **2022-06-01** Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 2-N)
- **2022-06-01** VOTE: Adoption (92-Y 2-N)
- **2022-06-17** Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N)
- **2022-06-17** Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-06-17** Conference report agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N)
- **2022-07-20** Enrolled
- **2022-07-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-07-21** Signed by President
- **2022-07-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on July 28, 2022
- **2022-07-28** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., August 4, 2022
- **2022-08-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective on the 1st day of the 4th month following the month `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-04** of adjournment of the 2022 Special Session l)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f43e763-52ea-4bb4-ba6b-fcaa07255270`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).