---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education, Board of; through-year growth assessment system, alternatives during 2024-2026."
description: "Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2026 school years. Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2026 school years, assessments as alternatives to the through-year growth assessment system established by the Board, provided that any such alternative assessment is aligned to the Standards of Learning. This bill is identical to HB 1076."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 435"
citation: "Virginia SB 435 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fda817a-d138-4bf9-ad40-b09cff585242"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB435"
source_hash: "8e9203e80a98993d80f60653c1b7bcd60840cadcfe9197744cddc5523010d009"
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 435 (2024) — Education, Board of; through-year growth assessment system, alternatives during 2024-2026.

Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2026 school years. Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2026 school years, assessments as alternatives to the through-year growth assessment system established by the Board, provided that any such alternative assessment is aligned to the Standards of Learning. This bill is identical to HB 1076.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0122** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0122)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103574D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB435)
3. **Printed as engrossed 24103574D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB435E)
4. **SB435ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB435ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (34-Y 5-N) — **34–5** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) — **10–5** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (81-Y 12-N) — **80–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103574D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB435)
- **2024-01-30** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-08** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** Reading of amendments waived
- **2024-02-13** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-13** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB435E
- **2024-02-13** Printed as engrossed 24103574D-E
- **2024-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-13** Passed Senate (34-Y 5-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-16** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-21** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB435E)
- **2024-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Passed House (81-Y 12-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** VOTE: Passage (81-Y 12-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB435ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-03** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB435ER)
- **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`
- **2024-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 122 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-20** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fda817a-d138-4bf9-ad40-b09cff585242`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).