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Bill
School buildings; electronic room partitions.
Prohibits school employees from opening or closing an electronic room partition in any school building except under certain limited circumstances. The bill requires any annual safety review or exercise for school employees in a local school division to include information and demonstrations, as appropriate, regarding the operation of such partitions. The bill also requires the Department of Education to make available to each school board model safety guidance regarding the operation of such partitions.
us/states/va
Virginia General Assembly
2019
HB 1753
Virginia HB 1753 (2019)
enacted
6
25
8
2018-12-21
2019-03-12
openstates
ocd-bill/a084e7f5-ac56-492c-a15c-bdc008ed1f59
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1753
4b32f1d3d547ed750adccbe8fcfdddfd2f72c877e1c77dfc94699e3c936d6e62
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
Virginia HB 1753 (2019) — School buildings; electronic room partitions.
Prohibits school employees from opening or closing an electronic room partition in any school building except under certain limited circumstances. The bill requires any annual safety review or exercise for school employees in a local school division to include information and demonstrations, as appropriate, regarding the operation of such partitions. The bill also requires the Department of Education to make available to each school board model safety guidance regarding the operation of such partitions.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) (committee substitute) — source
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1753ER) (committee substitute) — source
House: Committee substitute printed 19106060D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100322D (committee substitute) — source
Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source
Votes
Passed Senate with amendment — 40– 0 (pass) · upper
Senate amendment agreed to by House — 95– 0 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed — 37– 0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Education with substitute — 22– 0 (pass) · lower
Reported from Education and Health with amendment — 15– 0 (pass) · upper
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97– 0 (pass) · lower
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8– 0 (pass) · lower
Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99– 0 (pass) · lower
Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)
Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
Cheryl B. Turpin — cosponsor (person)
Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
David J. Toscano — cosponsor (person)
David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-12-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100322D introduction
2018-12-21 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
2019-01-11 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
2019-01-31 Read first time reading-1
2019-02-01 Read second time reading-2
2019-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 19106060D-H1
2019-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1753H1
2019-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
2019-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
2019-02-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
2019-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
2019-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
2019-02-06 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
2019-02-18 Read third time reading-3
2019-02-18 Reading of amendment waived
2019-02-18 Committee amendment agreed to
2019-02-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended
2019-02-19 Placed on Calendar
2019-02-19 Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
2019-02-22 Enrolled
2019-02-22 Signed by Speaker
2019-02-22 Signed by President
2019-03-04 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
2019-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-12 Approved by Governor-Chapter 369 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/a084e7f5-ac56-492c-a15c-bdc008ed1f59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).