republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1245.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Public education; economics education and financial literacy.	Requires the Board of Education to include evaluating the economic value of postsecondary studies, including the net cost of attendance, potential student loan debt, and potential earnings, in the Board's objectives for economics education and financial literacy. The bill requires the Board to amend such objectives by July 1, 2018.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 1245	Virginia SB 1245 (2017)	bill	Education	enacted	Siobhan S. Dunnavant	3	18	7	2017-01-10	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/5b7baf36-20fa-412a-a703-c12e12e75168	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1245	0288237db1169e40736e65e6286fe9f9473814880604cd8ef66a4ce12306b24e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1245 (2017) — Public education; economics education and financial literacy.

Requires the Board of Education to include evaluating the economic value of postsecondary studies, including the net cost of attendance, potential student loan debt, and potential earnings, in the Board's objectives for economics education and financial literacy. The bill requires the Board to amend such objectives by July 1, 2018.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1245ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102790D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• House amendments agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education with amendments — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102790D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2017-02-07 Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-17 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-17 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2017-02-17 Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-02-24 Enrolled
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 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 522 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b7baf36-20fa-412a-a703-c12e12e75168. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).