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type: "Bill"
title: "Career and technical education; notification by school board to students and parents of programs."
description: "Requires each local school board to implement a plan to notify students and their parents of the availability of career and technical education programs and to include annual notice on its website to enrolled high school students and their parents of the opportunity for such students to obtain a nationally recognized career readiness certificate at a local public high school, comprehensive community college, or workforce center."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1552"
citation: "Virginia HB 1552 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-29"
last_action: "2017-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29044f75-35ca-48a7-89f2-be5c25f7036d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1552"
source_hash: "91dc948bac31fc46dbf466657c72314547447e1acf741ba0f93df7c5bc4f82d3"
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 1552 (2017) — Career and technical education; notification by school board to students and parents of programs.
Requires each local school board to implement a plan to notify students and their parents of the availability of career and technical education programs and to include annual notice on its website to enrolled high school students and their parents of the opportunity for such students to obtain a nationally recognized career readiness certificate at a local public high school, comprehensive community college, or workforce center.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0100)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0100)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1552ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1552ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104342D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1552H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102021D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1552)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with substitute — **201** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- James M. LeMunyon — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-12-29** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102021D `introduction`
- **2016-12-29** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Committee substitute agreed to 17104342D-H1
- **2017-01-25** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1552H1
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 100 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29044f75-35ca-48a7-89f2-be5c25f7036d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).