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Bill	Students, certain; waiver to access student transportation in certain cases.	School boards; duties; student transportation in certain cases. Requires each school board that provides for the transportation of students and that has established a rule, regulation, or policy to exclude certain students who reside within a certain distance from the school at which they are enrolled from accessing such transportation to establish a process for waiving, on a case-by-case and space-available basis, such exclusion and providing transportation to any such student whose parent is unable to provide adequate transportation for his child to attend school because the parent is providing necessary medical care to another family member who resides in the same household, as evidenced by a written explanation submitted by a licensed health care provider who provides care to such family member.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1208	Virginia HB 1208 (2020)	bill		enacted	Kathy K.L. Tran	4	31	7	2020-01-07	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/53a9775d-d50a-4545-bb5d-e89e002eb766	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1208	69dd9ed3bb7cda1fcb4fe7b4960d3a7706e07fba6324d2bbbaf41e45be2e7814	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1208 (2020) — Students, certain; waiver to access student transportation in certain cases.

School boards; duties; student transportation in certain cases. Requires each school board that provides for the transportation of students and that has established a rule, regulation, or policy to exclude certain students who reside within a certain distance from the school at which they are enrolled from accessing such transportation to establish a process for waiving, on a case-by-case and space-available basis, such exclusion and providing transportation to any such student whose parent is unable to provide adequate transportation for his child to attend school because the parent is providing necessary medical care to another family member who resides in the same household, as evidenced by a written explanation submitted by a licensed health care provider who provides care to such family member.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1208ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1208H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB1208) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (24-Y 12-N 1-A) — 24–12 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 3-N 1-A) — 11–3 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N 1-A) — 11–3 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103654D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB1208)
• 2020-01-27 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 Committee substitute printed 20106640D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Committee substitute agreed to 20106640D-H1
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1208H1
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-11 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1208H1)
• 2020-02-20 Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 3-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-26 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2020-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-28 Passed Senate (24-Y 12-N 1-A) passage
• 2020-03-05 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB1208ER)
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-06 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 576 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53a9775d-d50a-4545-bb5d-e89e002eb766. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).