---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public high schools; identification of faculty member responsible for spec. education transitioning."
description: "Public high schools; identification of faculty member responsible for spec. education transitioning."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 943"
citation: "Virginia SB 943 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Suetterlein"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f2d08c8-1e64-493c-97fb-b03405172fd9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB943"
source_hash: "9df1ebd05a1bc1ce507de762ff47066a7dbb2a385429043294860023d28e7ec8"
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 943 (2023) — Public high schools; identification of faculty member responsible for spec. education transitioning.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0281** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0281)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101107D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB943)
3. **SB943ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB943ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Suetterlein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101107D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB943)
- **2023-01-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-16** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-17** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB943ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB943ER)
- **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`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f2d08c8-1e64-493c-97fb-b03405172fd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).