republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2352.md

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Bill	Teacher licensure by reciprocity; professional teacher's assessments, report.	Exempts from any professional teacher's assessment requirements any individual who has obtained a valid out-of-state license, with full credentials and without deficiencies, that is in force at the time the application for a Virginia license is received by the Department of Education, subject to the approval of the division superintendent or the school board in the school division in which such individual is employed. The bill requires the Department of Education to analyze the current requirements for teacher licensure by reciprocity in the Commonwealth, including the statutory and regulatory requirements for such licensure, and report its findings, including any recommendations for changes to such requirements, to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than November 1, 2017.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2352	Virginia HB 2352 (2017)	bill	Education Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	Nicholas J. Freitas	4	18	6	2017-01-16	2017-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/03d53cb0-2be2-4f3d-a40f-b9fa9cdceeeb	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2352	0840cc3885765494b098845c9d5d98a06de1aad27d3e165d5425f468ba127e7b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2352 (2017) — Teacher licensure by reciprocity; professional teacher's assessments, report.

Exempts from any professional teacher's assessment requirements any individual who has obtained a valid out-of-state license, with full credentials and without deficiencies, that is in force at the time the application for a Virginia license is received by the Department of Education, subject to the approval of the division superintendent or the school board in the school division in which such individual is employed. The bill requires the Department of Education to analyze the current requirements for teacher licensure by reciprocity in the Commonwealth, including the statutory and regulatory requirements for such licensure, and report its findings, including any recommendations for changes to such requirements, to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than November 1, 2017.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2352ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104878D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Presented and ordered printed 17103936D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health — 12–3 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education with substitute — 15–6 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 36–4 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 68–30 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 6–2 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Nicholas J. Freitas — primary (person)
• Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-16 Presented and ordered printed 17103936D introduction
• 2017-01-16 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 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Committee substitute agreed to 17104878D-H1
• 2017-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2352H1
• 2017-02-06 Read third time and passed House (68-Y 30-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-07 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
• 2017-02-23 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
• 2017-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 688 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03d53cb0-2be2-4f3d-a40f-b9fa9cdceeeb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).