---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions; human trafficking awareness and prevention training required."
description: "Higher educational institutions; human trafficking awareness and prevention training required."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1555"
citation: "Virginia HB 1555 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brewer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-05"
last_action: "2023-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d031389-859b-4e5d-becf-a5ac47f89e16"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1555"
source_hash: "ed7ac778398c5bc6928df01b89dbe53c93e3dddd43fc5434937c76be9985d427"
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 1555 (2023) — Higher educational institutions; human trafficking awareness and prevention training required.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0030** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0030)
2. **HB1555ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1555ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102048D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1555)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brewer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102048D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-05** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB1555)
- **2023-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-25** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1555ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1555ER)
- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 30 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-17** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d031389-859b-4e5d-becf-a5ac47f89e16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).