---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools and public higher educational institutions; student identification cards."
description: "Public schools and public higher educational institutions; student identification cards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1044"
citation: "Virginia SB 1044 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McPike"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-08"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5a8a822-6913-4d51-9057-bcc4be16ccbf"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1044"
source_hash: "81b136160463fcaf8b1941cb1cc449619d1f5ac22dbc48e15026b061a44e5870"
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 1044 (2023) — Public schools and public higher educational institutions; student identification cards.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0223** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0223)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102750D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1044)
3. **SB1044ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1044ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- McPike — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102750D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044)
- **2023-02-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-15** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1044ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (SB1044ER)
- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 223 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5a8a822-6913-4d51-9057-bcc4be16ccbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).