---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family life education curricula, certain; optional instruction on human trafficking of children."
description: "High school family life education curricula; optional instruction on human trafficking. Permits any family life education curriculum offered by a local school division in high school to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention, recognition, and awareness of human trafficking of children."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1023"
citation: "Virginia HB 1023 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth R. Guzman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/497c4c64-5f9c-48a0-ae6f-45dde2780777"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB1023"
source_hash: "50544b39af0831e0330a9f2d00f5bac5666045ffb04a908bd7c73db5a68ec89f"
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 1023 (2022) — Family life education curricula, certain; optional instruction on human trafficking of children.

High school family life education curricula; optional instruction on human trafficking. Permits any family life education curriculum offered by a local school division in high school to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention, recognition, and awareness of human trafficking of children.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0459** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0459)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105812D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1023H1)
3. **HB1023ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1023ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103814D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1023)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth R. Guzman — primary (person)
- G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103814D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB1023)
- **2022-01-27** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-07** Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07** Committee substitute printed 22105812D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 22105812D-H1
- **2022-02-10** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1023H1
- **2022-02-11** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB1023H1)
- **2022-02-11** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-03** Enrolled
- **2022-03-03** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB1023ER)
- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 459 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/497c4c64-5f9c-48a0-ae6f-45dde2780777`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).