---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family life education; consent."
description: "Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the law and meaning of consent. Under current law, such elements are permissive in any high school family life education curriculum."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2205"
citation: "Virginia HB 2205 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eileen Filler-Corn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c70b268c-6018-4ec9-b63c-d2500abb1773"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2205"
source_hash: "d0890fe91ad69ccc53e35349557c320907332184ee38ccdfb28ed1355d3b716a"
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 2205 (2019) — Family life education; consent.

Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the law and meaning of consent. Under current law, such elements are permissive in any high school family life education curriculum.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0372)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2205ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2205ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104038D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2205)
4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2205ASE)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **88–10** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **96–2** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **91–9** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eileen Filler-Corn — primary (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104038D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (88-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Reading of amendments waived
- **2019-02-18** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-18** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Reading of amendments waived
- **2019-02-19** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-20** Senate amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 2-N)
- **2019-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate amendments agreed to by House
- **2019-02-20** Senate amendments agreed to by House (91-Y 9-N)
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 372 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c70b268c-6018-4ec9-b63c-d2500abb1773`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).