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type: "Bill"
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title: "School crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans; development and review."
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description: "Requires each school board to include the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief of the emergency medical services agency, the executive director of the relevant regional emergency medical services council, and the emergency management official of the locality, or their designees, in the development and review of school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Under current law, the school board is required to provide copies of such plans to the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief of the emergency medical services agency, and the emergency management official of the locality but is not required to include such first responders in the development and review of such plans. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "HB 1737"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1737 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Education", "Emergency Services and Vehicles"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Thomas C. Wright, Jr."]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2018-12-19"
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last_action: "2019-02-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/037cbe86-5efc-4908-98e8-fe0aba75cb3f"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1737"
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source_hash: "5ebc8cab21b4ea292df704b1844d27eef558aace64ab4308a60436bbea0a18b0"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1737 (2019) — School crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans; development and review.
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Requires each school board to include the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief of the emergency medical services agency, the executive director of the relevant regional emergency medical services council, and the emergency management official of the locality, or their designees, in the development and review of school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Under current law, the school board is required to provide copies of such plans to the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief of the emergency medical services agency, and the emergency management official of the locality but is not required to include such first responders in the development and review of such plans. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0141)
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2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1737AH)
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3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1737)
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4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1737ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1737ER)
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5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100652D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1737)
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6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19100652D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1737E)
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## Votes
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **5–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with amendments — **21–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — primary (person)
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- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-12-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100652D `introduction`
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- **2018-12-19** Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-15** Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-30** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2019-01-30** Engrossed by House as amended HB1737E
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- **2019-01-30** Printed as engrossed 19100652D-E
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- **2019-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-02-01** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
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- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
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- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
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- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
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- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
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- **2019-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 141 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/037cbe86-5efc-4908-98e8-fe0aba75cb3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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