republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-951.md

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Bill	School service providers; student access to collected personal information.	Requires school service providers to provide, either directly to the student or his parent or through the school, access to an electronic copy of such student's personal information in a manner consistent with the functionality of the school service. The bill permits contracts between local school boards and school service providers to require that such electronic copy be in a machine-readable format.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 951	Virginia SB 951 (2017)	bill	Computer Services and Uses Education	enacted	Frank M. Ruff, Jr.	5	23	8	2016-12-31	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/fe189266-d510-4945-b145-2dbc19e6eb3e	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB951	a5516f4d3923131862aea193c5e8a8cd238a56685d54b380560b07a4bd5be631	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 951 (2017) — School service providers; student access to collected personal information.

Requires school service providers to provide, either directly to the student or his parent or through the school, access to an electronic copy of such student's personal information in a manner consistent with the functionality of the school service. The bill permits contracts between local school boards and school service providers to require that such electronic copy be in a machine-readable format.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 17105484D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB951ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104917D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101629D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• House substitute agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-31 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101629D introduction
• 2016-12-31 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-01-18 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Reading of substitute waived
• 2017-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 17104917D-S1
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB951S1
• 2017-02-08 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-22 Committee substitute agreed to 17105484D-H1
• 2017-02-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB951H1
• 2017-02-22 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-02-23 Title replaced 17105484D-H1
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 518 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe189266-d510-4945-b145-2dbc19e6eb3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).