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type: "Bill"
title: "Students receiving home instruction; participation in AP and PSAT/NMSQT."
description: "Requires school boards to (i) make Advanced Placement (AP), Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), and PreACT examinations available to students receiving home instruction; (ii) adopt written policies that specify the date by which such students shall register to participate in such examinations; and (iii) notify such students and their parents of such registration deadline and the availability of financial assistance to low-income and needy students to take such examinations. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2355"
citation: "Virginia HB 2355 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brenda L. Pogge"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-16"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/061c5f63-217b-4bd5-bb28-ba7f03483881"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2355"
source_hash: "621d288c1abe71040c76a558d3fee68765a3e82c1ac680066a035a7716fd00c9"
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 2355 (2017) — Students receiving home instruction; participation in AP and PSAT/NMSQT.
Requires school boards to (i) make Advanced Placement (AP), Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), and PreACT examinations available to students receiving home instruction; (ii) adopt written policies that specify the date by which such students shall register to participate in such examinations; and (iii) notify such students and their parents of such registration deadline and the availability of financial assistance to low-income and needy students to take such examinations. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0302)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2355ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2355ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103344D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2355)
## Votes
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **950** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **980** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Brenda L. Pogge — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 17103344D `introduction`
- **2017-01-16** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Reading of amendments waived
- **2017-02-13** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-13** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-15** Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 302 (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/061c5f63-217b-4bd5-bb28-ba7f03483881`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).