---
type: "Bill"
title: "Students with disabilities; DBHDS, best practice standard related to transition of record."
description: "Students with disabilities; DBHDS, best practice standard related to transition of record."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1659"
citation: "Virginia HB 1659 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-08"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbc987cb-4206-472f-afa8-399c085d7b93"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1659"
source_hash: "ad1bc58af274a9be2e54dcb091603a1afe509401e25320874ea4a4adb9e77ba5"
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 1659 (2023) — Students with disabilities; DBHDS, best practice standard related to transition of record.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0269** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0269)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23104248D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1659H1)
3. **HB1659ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1659ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102290D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1659)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102290D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB1659)
- **2023-01-13** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2023-01-24** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Committee substitute printed 23104248D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB1659H1)
- **2023-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 23104248D-H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1659H1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-30** VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1659ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB1659ER)
- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** 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`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 269 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbc987cb-4206-472f-afa8-399c085d7b93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).