republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-1491.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Student voters; public high schools to provide Virginia voter registration information.	Student voters; Virginia voter registration. Requires each public high school to provide to any enrolled student who is of voting age or otherwise eligible to register to vote access to Virginia voter registration information and applications, or access to the Virginia online voter registration system on a school-owned computing device, and the opportunity to complete such application during the normal course of the school day.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1491	Virginia HB 1491 (2020)	bill		enacted	Nancy D. Guy	4	31	8	2020-01-08	2020-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/c634119a-29cd-491e-958a-adf6cd411728	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1491	992cbd9497fae462e586eac854bee57e1e08c1890418354cd1cc27c3c47c1d2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1491 (2020) — Student voters; public high schools to provide Virginia voter registration information.

Student voters; Virginia voter registration. Requires each public high school to provide to any enrolled student who is of voting age or otherwise eligible to register to vote access to Virginia voter registration information and applications, or access to the Virginia online voter registration system on a school-owned computing device, and the opportunity to complete such application during the normal course of the school day.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1491ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House as amended HB1491E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB1491) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (82-Y 16-N) — 81–16 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with amendment (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) — 28–12 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nancy D. Guy — primary (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Presented and ordered printed 20103604D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 2-N)
• 2020-01-27 Reported from Education with amendment (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2020-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (HB1491)
• 2020-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-31 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-01-31 Engrossed by House as amended HB1491E
• 2020-01-31 Printed as engrossed 20103604D-E
• 2020-02-03 Read third time and passed House (82-Y 16-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-03 VOTE: Passage (82-Y 16-N)
• 2020-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-04 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB1491E)
• 2020-02-11 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) passage
• 2020-02-28 Enrolled
• 2020-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1491ER)
• 2020-02-28 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-02 Signed by President
• 2020-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 612 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c634119a-29cd-491e-958a-adf6cd411728. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).