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type: "Bill"
title: "Public school teachers; technical professional licenses, eligibility criteria."
description: "Public school teachers; technical professionallicenses; eligibility criteria. Requires the Board of Education,pursuant to regulation, to permit any individual who seeks a technicalprofessional license to substitute the successful completion of anintensive, job-embedded, three-year program of professional developmentfor the nine semester hours of professional studies required forsuch license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1613"
citation: "Virginia HB 1613 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emily M. Brewer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/695b3fe2-fe91-4aac-b463-f20cb886bc27"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1613"
source_hash: "b84885755cd8c608eafc3a3e8e197eb2d6d91a9ad8670cf704a160c8d7c6f420"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1613 (2020) — Public school teachers; technical professional licenses, eligibility criteria.
Public school teachers; technical professionallicenses; eligibility criteria. Requires the Board of Education,pursuant to regulation, to permit any individual who seeks a technicalprofessional license to substitute the successful completion of anintensive, job-embedded, three-year program of professional developmentfor the nine semester hours of professional studies required forsuch license.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0684)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1613ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1613ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1613)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1613)
## Votes
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **61** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Emily M. Brewer — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 20105247D `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB1613)
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2020-02-20** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-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 (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled
- **2020-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB1613ER)
- **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
- **2020-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/695b3fe2-fe91-4aac-b463-f20cb886bc27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).