---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers employed in an accredited private elementary and secondary schools; provisional licenses."
description: "Teachers employed in accredited private elementaryand secondary schools; provisional licenses; extension. Requiresthe Board of Education to extend for at least one additional year,but for no more than two additional years, the three-year provisionallicense of a teacher employed in an accredited private elementaryor secondary school upon receiving from the school administratorof such school (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactoryperformance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the originalthree-year provisional license. The provisions of the bill mirror current law relating to the extension of provisional licenses forpublic school teachers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1469"
citation: "Virginia HB 1469 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wendy W. Gooditis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e1aea1d-b9c4-4b41-bdac-601a4f8f1a21"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1469"
source_hash: "13afbb7e0a6ce488067feeb0fb3a935c6f0a7057061ad8d68abefdc08c767bfe"
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 1469 (2020) — Teachers employed in an accredited private elementary and secondary schools; provisional licenses.

Teachers employed in accredited private elementaryand secondary schools; provisional licenses; extension. Requiresthe Board of Education to extend for at least one additional year,but for no more than two additional years, the three-year provisionallicense of a teacher employed in an accredited private elementaryor secondary school upon receiving from the school administratorof such school (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactoryperformance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the originalthree-year provisional license. The provisions of the bill mirror current law relating to the extension of provisional licenses forpublic school teachers.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0639)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1469ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1469ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1469H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1469H1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1469)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1469)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wendy W. Gooditis — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102106D `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB1469)
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-29** Incorporates HB725 (Reid)
- **2020-01-29** Committee substitute printed 20106886D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 20106886D-H1
- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1469H1
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB1469H1)
- **2020-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled
- **2020-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB1469ER)
- **2020-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-02** Signed by President
- **2020-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
- **2020-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 639 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e1aea1d-b9c4-4b41-bdac-601a4f8f1a21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).