---
type: "Bill"
title: "SLIFE; Board of Education to develop and adopt policies related to supporting students."
description: "Board of Education; develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). Directs the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE students) in staying in and graduating from, or otherwise completing, high school in the Commonwealth and to develop formulas for calculating high school drop-out rates and graduation rates in the Commonwealth that do not include any SLIFE student who dropped out if such student had not yet been enrolled in a public high school in the Commonwealth for at least two semesters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 433"
citation: "Virginia SB 433 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f1f722d-745a-42dd-8975-e9c6d131dd2e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB433"
source_hash: "1493a44c098ed06f034b5ce6ef3e2356df08de323c45c98b48f655403428e904"
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 433 (2024) — SLIFE; Board of Education to develop and adopt policies related to supporting students.

Board of Education; develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). Directs the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE students) in staying in and graduating from, or otherwise completing, high school in the Commonwealth and to develop formulas for calculating high school drop-out rates and graduation rates in the Commonwealth that do not include any SLIFE student who dropped out if such student had not yet been enrolled in a public high school in the Commonwealth for at least two semesters.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0623** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0623)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105034D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB433)
3. **SB433ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB433ER)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Stella G. Pekarsky — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105034D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (SB433)
- **2024-02-08** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-28** Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2024-03-04** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-08** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB433ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB433ER)
- **2024-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-09** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 623 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f1f722d-745a-42dd-8975-e9c6d131dd2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).