---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early childhood care and education; licensure requirements for certain accredited private school."
description: "Early childhood care and education; licensure requirements for certain accredited private school."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1097"
citation: "Virginia SB 1097 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norment"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4023dff1-8244-4530-b532-2ab60f885bec"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1097"
source_hash: "8a519be4ac2fe055b4c9915e988ebed57640d786c436968ade9ba0166898a7f8"
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 SB 1097 (2023) — Early childhood care and education; licensure requirements for certain accredited private school.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0286** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0286)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100922D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1097)
3. **SB1097ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1097ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (87-Y 12-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Norment — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100922D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB1097)
- **2023-01-17** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed House (87-Y 12-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-13** VOTE: Passage (87-Y 12-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1097ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB1097ER)
- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 286 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4023dff1-8244-4530-b532-2ab60f885bec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).