---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks."
description: "Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the share of teachers that are provided each working day a lunch break of at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 583"
citation: "Virginia HB 583 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelly A. Simonds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5711617-6772-4103-b69f-3f4e7a1b2552"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB583"
source_hash: "5490a8c484f529de1a1dd9a0eccc29b955f5d9d07b4c8f89605a3a05249c0b81"
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 583 (2024) — Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks.

Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the share of teachers that are provided each working day a lunch break of at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0196** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0196)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24107316D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB583H1)
3. **HB583ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB583ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102649D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB583)

## Votes

- Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N) — **17–5** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) — **34–6** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) — **34–6** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
- Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102649D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB583)
- **2024-01-19** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-07** Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** Committee substitute printed 24107316D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 24107316D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB583H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB583H1)
- **2024-02-29** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Passed by for the day
- **2024-03-05** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Passed by temporarily
- **2024-03-05** Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-05** Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB583ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5711617-6772-4103-b69f-3f4e7a1b2552`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).