---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Index of Performance incentive program; renamed Exemplar School Recognition Program."
description: "Virginia Index of Performance incentive program; renamed Exemplar School Recognition Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1868"
citation: "Virginia HB 1868 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris L. Hurst"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-03"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d549e0e7-50c2-43cb-9495-1e4a223546e1"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1868"
source_hash: "f53648b16998eb3af32a76134c9110c7dcf5d029f3f25c4c4cf51f7d3929e35e"
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 1868 (2019) — Virginia Index of Performance incentive program; renamed Exemplar School Recognition Program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0576)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1868ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1868ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102084D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1868)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education — **14–8** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **69–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris L. Hurst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102084D `introduction`
- **2019-01-03** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Read third time and passed House (69-Y 27-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 576 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d549e0e7-50c2-43cb-9495-1e4a223546e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).