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type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers turnover; exit questionnaire."
description: "Requires the Department of Education to develop and oversee a pilot program to administer across five geographically and demographically diverse school divisions the model exit questionnaire for teachers developed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, analyze the results of each such questionnaire, and include such results and analysis in the Superintendent's annual report beginning in 2018. The bill requires the Department to (i) administer such questionnaire to each teacher who ceases to be employed by the relevant school board for any reason and (ii) collect, maintain, and report on the results of each such questionnaire in a manner that ensures the confidentiality of each teacher's name and other personally identifying information. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1523"
citation: "Virginia SB 1523 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Montgomery \"Monty\" Mason"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18109b4a-695b-42e5-9280-6a5767d65d81"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1523"
source_hash: "f90ecc4129318b5d5491ab60c3bbbce8044477f65f79de28d5b53988958a0b4e"
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 SB 1523 (2017) — Teachers turnover; exit questionnaire.
Requires the Department of Education to develop and oversee a pilot program to administer across five geographically and demographically diverse school divisions the model exit questionnaire for teachers developed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, analyze the results of each such questionnaire, and include such results and analysis in the Superintendent's annual report beginning in 2018. The bill requires the Department to (i) administer such questionnaire to each teacher who ceases to be employed by the relevant school board for any reason and (ii) collect, maintain, and report on the results of each such questionnaire in a manner that ensures the confidentiality of each teacher's name and other personally identifying information. 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 (CHAP0308)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0308)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1523ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1523ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105107D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1523S1)
4. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17104474D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1523)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **160** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)
- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
- David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 17104474D `introduction`
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17105107D-S1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1523S1
- **2017-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **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 308 (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/18109b4a-695b-42e5-9280-6a5767d65d81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).