---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preparticipation physical evaluation; children's cardiac safety."
description: "Public middle and high school students; interscholastic athletics; preparticipation physical evaluations; form; timeline. Prohibits middle or high school students from participating in or trying out for any interscholastic athletic team unless such student has submitted a signed Preparticipation Physical Evaluation form from certain licensed providers attesting the student received a physical examination and was found fit for athletic competition no more than 14 calendar months prior to the date on which such form was signed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1320"
citation: "Virginia SB 1320 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/973ccac4-10df-414a-b016-628b77979a74"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1320"
source_hash: "e2ababd1125e866483d5d8d09f70f54aafd1f01da7592fb8d4fdfe261a702e96"
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 1320 (2025) — Preparticipation physical evaluation; children's cardiac safety.

Public middle and high school students; interscholastic athletics; preparticipation physical evaluations; form; timeline. Prohibits middle or high school students from participating in or trying out for any interscholastic athletic team unless such student has submitted a signed Preparticipation Physical Evaluation form from certain licensed providers attesting the student received a physical examination and was found fit for athletic competition no more than 14 calendar months prior to the date on which such form was signed.

## 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/1018780.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077398.PDF)
3. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1054574.PDF)
4. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1035850.PDF)
5. **SEH Sub: Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032305.PDF)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068688.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House with substitute (55-Y 43-N) — **55–43** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — **14–8** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103280D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1320)
- **2025-01-28** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25106341D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1320)
- **2025-02-03** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-03** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-04** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-04** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-07** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Referred from Health and Human Services and referred to Education (Voice Vote) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Committee substitute printed 25107613D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-17** Substitute bill reprinted 25107613D
- **2025-02-18** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1320)
- **2025-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Education Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-20** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-20** Passed House with substitute (55-Y 43-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1320ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1320)
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 517 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/973ccac4-10df-414a-b016-628b77979a74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).