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type: "Bill"
title: "Public charter school applications and charter agreements; review by the Board of Education."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2218"
citation: "Virginia HB 2218 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason S. Miyares"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d019ece6-f80f-4188-a0ee-aad17a4e4ed9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2218"
source_hash: "9228cbd1fd1267d8cea7d3215890bc8d2047eeac48f168ad0f6d4653f1f4e74e"
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 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](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0513)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2218ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2218ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103567D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2218)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103567D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2218E)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **87** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **5838** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **2119** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **71** (pass) · legislature
- Defeated by Senate — **2020** (fail) · legislature
- Reported from Education with amendment — **165** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d019ece6-f80f-4188-a0ee-aad17a4e4ed9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).