republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2218.md

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Bill	Public charter school applications and charter agreements; review by the Board of Education.	Permits the Board of Education to communicate any Board finding relating to the rationale for the local school board's denial of a public charter school application or revocation of or failure to renew the charter agreement based on documentation submitted by the school board in any school division in which at least half of the schools receive funding pursuant to Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2218	Virginia HB 2218 (2017)	bill	Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Education	enacted	Jason S. Miyares	4	22	8	2017-01-11	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/d019ece6-f80f-4188-a0ee-aad17a4e4ed9	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2218	9228cbd1fd1267d8cea7d3215890bc8d2047eeac48f168ad0f6d4653f1f4e74e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2218 (2017) — Public charter school applications and charter agreements; review by the Board of Education.

Permits the Board of Education to communicate any Board finding relating to the rationale for the local school board's denial of a public charter school application or revocation of or failure to renew the charter agreement based on documentation submitted by the school board in any school division in which at least half of the schools receive funding pursuant to Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2218ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103567D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17103567D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health — 8–7 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 58–38 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 21–19 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–1 (pass) · legislature
• Defeated by Senate — 20–20 (fail) · legislature
• Reported from Education with amendment — 16–5 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jason S. Miyares — primary (person)
• Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103567D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2017-01-20 Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation referral-committee
• 2017-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-03 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-06 Amendment by Delegate Miyares agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House as amended HB2218E
• 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17103567D-E
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House (58-Y 38-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2017-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Chair votes No
• 2017-02-23 Enrolled
• 2017-02-23 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
• 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 513 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d019ece6-f80f-4188-a0ee-aad17a4e4ed9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).