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Bill

School counselors; staffing ratios, report.

Department of Education; data collection; school counselor positions. Requires the Department of Education to collect data from school boards regarding their ability to fill school counselor positions, including (i) the number of school counselors employed in elementary, middle, and high schools in the local school division; (ii) the number and duration of school counselor vacancies; (iii) the number, role, and license type of other licensed counseling professionals employed by the school board; and (iv) information about their preferences for meeting updated school counselor to student ratios with other licensed counseling professionals. The bill requires the Department to report the results of such data collection to the Governor, the Secretary of Education, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than December 1, 2020.

us/states/va

Virginia General Assembly

2020

HB 1653

Virginia HB 1653 (2020)

bill

enacted

Tony O. Wilt

2020-01-17

2020-04-02

openstates

ocd-bill/c4d88bcd-08d2-407e-9307-0dd6dda364e8

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1653

c626da7e893d8368f536335ba005bfe388146a6797ed4385acee63ebff0dc487

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

reported

legislation

bill

us-va

Virginia HB 1653 (2020) — School counselors; staffing ratios, report.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1653ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1653H1 (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (HB1653) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N) — 91–7 (pass) · lower
Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
Reported from Education with substitute (16-Y 5-N) — 16–5 (pass) · lower
VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 2-N) — 95–2 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 20105372D introduction
2020-01-17 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
2020-01-21 Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ referral-committee
2020-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB1653)
2020-02-03 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
2020-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
2020-02-03 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2020-02-05 Reported from Education with substitute (16-Y 5-N) committee-passage
2020-02-05 Committee substitute printed 20107128D-H1 substitution
2020-02-05 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
2020-02-05 Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
2020-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
2020-02-07 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 20107128D-H1
2020-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1653H1
2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (92-Y 7-N) passage, reading-3
2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N)
2020-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1653H1)
2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
2020-02-18 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
2020-02-27 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-02-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-03-02 Read third time reading-3
2020-03-02 Reading of amendment waived
2020-03-02 Committee amendment agreed to
2020-03-02 Engrossed by Senate as amended
2020-03-02 Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) passage
2020-03-03 Placed on Calendar
2020-03-03 Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 2-N)
2020-03-03 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 2-N)
2020-03-06 Enrolled
2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB1653ER)
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
2020-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 641 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4d88bcd-08d2-407e-9307-0dd6dda364e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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