---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education."
description: "School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1423"
citation: "Virginia HB 1423 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coyner"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-14"
last_action: "2023-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4390ebd8-0f66-4af3-aac9-de3449b683df"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1423"
source_hash: "12338e3f74ec93fd2b636041332ec6ccf1a336e7248be3dcac4bb2423ff46b8e"
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 1423 (2023) — School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0008** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0008)
2. **HB1423ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1423ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101483D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1423)
4. **Printed as engrossed 23101483D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1423E)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Coyner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101483D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-14** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-23** Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB1423)
- **2023-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-26** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Engrossed by House as amended HB1423E
- **2023-01-26** Printed as engrossed 23101483D-E
- **2023-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB1423E)
- **2023-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-30** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1423ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB1423ER)
- **2023-02-21** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 8 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-16** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4390ebd8-0f66-4af3-aac9-de3449b683df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).