---
type: "Bill"
title: "School boards; driver education behind-the-wheel training to be offered before or after school."
description: "School boards; driver education; behind-the-wheel driver training. Strongly encourages each school board, in recognition of the fact that behind-the-wheel training is an essential school-to-work skill and a vital step in the pathway to obtaining a driver's license and cultivating well-educated teen drivers, to offer as part of its program of driver education behind-the-wheel training either during school hours or before or after school hours, including on weekends."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2213"
citation: "Virginia HB 2213 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delores L. McQuinn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5379feb8-f566-41d9-9aeb-3c1d35ba8a1c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2213"
source_hash: "ded3bbed9481cb03ff9c4af3bf46a011784621299252435bdd3b17c39e9a3b9f"
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 2213 (2025) — School boards; driver education behind-the-wheel training to be offered before or after school.

School boards; driver education; behind-the-wheel driver training. Strongly encourages each school board, in recognition of the fact that behind-the-wheel training is an essential school-to-work skill and a vital step in the pathway to obtaining a driver's license and cultivating well-educated teen drivers, to offer as part of its program of driver education behind-the-wheel training either during school hours or before or after school hours, including on weekends.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015570.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074195.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068700.PDF)

## Votes

- Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Delores L. McQuinn — primary (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. "Danny" Diggs — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
- W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104166D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2213)
- **2025-01-20** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-22** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-19** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2213ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2213)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 401 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5379feb8-f566-41d9-9aeb-3c1d35ba8a1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).