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Bill	Military families; relocation to the Commonwealth, student registration.	Permits any student whose service member parent is relocated to the Commonwealth pursuant to orders received to register for courses and other academic programs and participate in the lottery process for charter schools and college partnership laboratory schools in the school division in which such student will reside at the same time and in the same manner as students who reside in the local school division. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1623	Virginia HB 1623 (2019)	bill	Armed Forces Education	enacted	Mark L. Cole	6	21	8	2018-10-17	2019-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/a023420f-8128-41d2-ba26-70ce9e7f6963	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1623	26854aa6520055bb87ba6b69711a1a0ab919d7c329b1e673b080c91585acd8d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1623 (2019) — Military families; relocation to the Commonwealth, student registration.

Permits any student whose service member parent is relocated to the Commonwealth pursuant to orders received to register for courses and other academic programs and participate in the lottery process for charter schools and college partnership laboratory schools in the school division in which such student will reside at the same time and in the same manner as students who reside in the local school division. 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 (CHAP0404) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1623ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100465D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19100465D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with amendments — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark L. Cole — primary (person)
• C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
• Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher P. Stolle — cosponsor (person)
• Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
• Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
• Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Miyares — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
• Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
• R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
• Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
• Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-10-17 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100465D introduction
• 2018-10-17 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2019-01-11 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-16 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2019-01-21 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-21 Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House as amended HB1623E
• 2019-02-04 Printed as engrossed 19100465D-E
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2019-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-21 Enrolled
• 2019-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-21 Signed by President
• 2019-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
• 2019-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 404 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a023420f-8128-41d2-ba26-70ce9e7f6963. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).