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| Bill | School calendar; opening day of the school year. | Requires each local school board to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school is no earlier than 14 days before Labor Day unless the Board of Education waives such requirement for good cause. Under current law, each local school board is required to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school is after Labor Day unless the Board of Education waives such requirement for good cause. The bill provides that in each school division in which the school board sets the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school is before Labor Day, such school board shall close each school in the school division from the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day through Labor Day. The bill exempts from certain requirements certain school boards that were previously granted good cause waivers by the Board of Education. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | HB 1652 | Virginia HB 1652 (2019) |
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Virginia HB 1652 (2019) — School calendar; opening day of the school year.
Requires each local school board to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school is no earlier than 14 days before Labor Day unless the Board of Education waives such requirement for good cause. Under current law, each local school board is required to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school is after Labor Day unless the Board of Education waives such requirement for good cause. The bill provides that in each school division in which the school board sets the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school is before Labor Day, such school board shall close each school in the school division from the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day through Labor Day. The bill exempts from certain requirements certain school boards that were previously granted good cause waivers by the Board of Education. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1652ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100409D (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106555D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate with substitute — 30–10 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 13–2 (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106555D-S1 — 77–19 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — 81–15 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education — 17–5 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Les R. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-11-28 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100409D
introduction - 2018-11-28 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2019-01-30 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-01-31 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2019-02-01 Read third time and passed House (81-Y 15-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2019-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2019-02-04 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2019-02-11 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
- 2019-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 19106555D-S1
- 2019-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1652S1
- 2019-02-13 Placed on Calendar
- 2019-02-13 Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106555D-S1 (77-Y 19-N)
- 2019-02-15 Enrolled
- 2019-02-15 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-02-15 Signed by President
- 2019-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
- 2019-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 569 (effective 7/1/19)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4318ab6-8a4b-4764-94b8-ab4d41fb1290. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).