---
type: "Bill"
title: "Individualized education program; guidelines for teams relating to age-appropriate instruction."
description: "Department of Education; guidelines for individualized education program teams relating to certain age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction; availability and posting. Requires theDepartment of Education to make available to each school board andpost on its website by the beginning of the 2024-2025 school yearthe guidelines established in accordance with relevant law for individualizededucation program (IEP) teams to use in developing IEPs for childrenwith disabilities relating to the need for age-appropriate and developmentallyappropriate instruction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 60"
citation: "Virginia SB 60 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-26"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bab3e762-b3e3-4bda-a28a-f9ab1d24fe5d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB60"
source_hash: "76bf833b3b7072d67b96bc9228d85f9ecb5edc4d54a982e2f10b1ba8955f1f29"
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 60 (2024) — Individualized education program; guidelines for teams relating to age-appropriate instruction.

Department of Education; guidelines for individualized education program teams relating to certain age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction; availability and posting. Requires theDepartment of Education to make available to each school board andpost on its website by the beginning of the 2024-2025 school yearthe guidelines established in accordance with relevant law for individualizededucation program (IEP) teams to use in developing IEPs for childrenwith disabilities relating to the need for age-appropriate and developmentallyappropriate instruction.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0493** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0493)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103268D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB60)
3. **SB60ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB60ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-26** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103268D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-12-26** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB60)
- **2024-01-18** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-28** Reported from Education (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** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB60ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB60ER)
- **2024-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** 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`
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 493 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bab3e762-b3e3-4bda-a28a-f9ab1d24fe5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).