republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2140.md

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Bill	School calendar; opening of the school year, good cause waiver.	Authorizes the school board of any school division located in Planning District 16 that was not granted a good cause waiver for the 2018-2019 school year but would qualify for such a waiver under the law as it was in effect prior to July 1, 2019, for the 2019-2020 school year to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend is earlier than Labor Day, including earlier than 14 days before Labor Day. Additionally, the bill authorizes the school board of any school division located in Planning District 16 that is entirely surrounded by two school divisions that either were granted a waiver pursuant to Chapter 3 of the Acts of Assembly of 2012, Special Session I, or would qualify for a good cause waiver pursuant to § 22.1-79.1 as it was in effect prior to July 1, 2019, for the 2019-2020 school year to open schools on the same opening date as either such surrounding school division.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2140	Virginia HB 2140 (2019)	bill	Education	enacted	Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr.	5	28	10	2019-01-08	2019-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/b64813fa-d54f-4f67-8cff-1aa3a7f6943f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2140	1d31ababe008303e1bbf96ec5b521b31773af5aa4bbd4aefb6527c1074378f5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2140 (2019) — School calendar; opening of the school year, good cause waiver.

Authorizes the school board of any school division located in Planning District 16 that was not granted a good cause waiver for the 2018-2019 school year but would qualify for such a waiver under the law as it was in effect prior to July 1, 2019, for the 2019-2020 school year to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend is earlier than Labor Day, including earlier than 14 days before Labor Day. Additionally, the bill authorizes the school board of any school division located in Planning District 16 that is entirely surrounded by two school divisions that either were granted a waiver pursuant to Chapter 3 of the Acts of Assembly of 2012, Special Session I, or would qualify for a good cause waiver pursuant to § 22.1-79.1 as it was in effect prior to July 1, 2019, for the 2019-2020 school year to open schools on the same opening date as either such surrounding school division.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2140ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Conference substitute printed 19107578D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102568D (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106720D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House — 92–4 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute rejected by House 19106720D-S1 — 0–100 (fail) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House — 84–8 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute — 36–4 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — primary (person)
• Bryce E. Reeves — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102568D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2019-01-18 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 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 (92-Y 4-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-04 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2019-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-18 Committee substitute agreed to 19106720D-S1
• 2019-02-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2140S1
• 2019-02-19 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-19 Passed by for the day
• 2019-02-20 Senate substitute rejected by House 19106720D-S1 (0-Y 100-N)
• 2019-02-21 Senate requested conference committee
• 2019-02-21 House acceded to request
• 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by House
• 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2019-02-22 Conference substitute printed 19107578D-H1
• 2019-02-22 Amended by conference committee
• 2019-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (84-Y 8-N)
• 2019-03-07 Enrolled
• 2019-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-03-09 Signed by President
• 2019-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
• 2019-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 637 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b64813fa-d54f-4f67-8cff-1aa3a7f6943f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).