---
type: "Bill"
title: "Students in local school division who receive home instruction; division's legal obligation."
description: "Department of Education; Superintendent's memo; confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction. Requires, no later than the start of the 2025–2026 school year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to include in a Superintendent's memo an explanation of each division superintendent's obligations set forth in relevant law relating to the confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2598"
citation: "Virginia HB 2598 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillip A. Scott"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2c6ae99-7d5a-4789-bd3f-14b16f185df9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2598"
source_hash: "9e92b8aacaeddbb3358941f034494080eaf23b67cd8b465ae871529e08f94912"
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 2598 (2025) — Students in local school division who receive home instruction; division's legal obligation.

Department of Education; Superintendent's memo; confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction. Requires, no later than the start of the 2025–2026 school year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to include in a Superintendent's memo an explanation of each division superintendent's obligations set forth in relevant law relating to the confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1019107.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072404.PDF)
3. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032314.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061441.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Phillip A. Scott — primary (person)
- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Earley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103453D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-13** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-29** Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Committee substitute printed 25105695D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Education Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2598)
- **2025-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2598ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2598)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 291 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2c6ae99-7d5a-4789-bd3f-14b16f185df9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).