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type: "Bill"
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title: "Alternative education programs; Department of Education to annually collect data on programs."
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description: "Requires the Department of Education to annually collect from each school board and publish on its website various enrollment and achievement data on alternative education programs for students who have been suspended, expelled, or otherwise precluded from attendance at school. The bill requires such data to be published in a manner that protects the identities of individual students and disaggregated by local school division and by student race, ethnicity, gender, and disability. 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 1985"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1985 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Education"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Richard P. Bell"]
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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: "2019-01-07"
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last_action: "2019-02-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a311abb0-6218-40e0-a93b-cb756415868d"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1985"
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source_hash: "d270ba10acd0623312d9f381136e93d9d4382cca1022d20cc19bce7df5dcb151"
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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 1985 (2019) — Alternative education programs; Department of Education to annually collect data on programs.
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Requires the Department of Education to annually collect from each school board and publish on its website various enrollment and achievement data on alternative education programs for students who have been suspended, expelled, or otherwise precluded from attendance at school. The bill requires such data to be published in a manner that protects the identities of individual students and disaggregated by local school division and by student race, ethnicity, gender, and disability. 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 (CHAP0123)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0123)
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2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1985AH)
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3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1985)
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4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1985ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1985ER)
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5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101690D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1985)
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6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19101690D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1985E)
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## Votes
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Richard P. Bell — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101690D `introduction`
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- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-11** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-31** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2019-01-31** Engrossed by House as amended HB1985E
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- **2019-01-31** Printed as engrossed 19101690D-E
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- **2019-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-02-04** 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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- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 123 (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/a311abb0-6218-40e0-a93b-cb756415868d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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