republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-351.md

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Bill	School bus drivers; critical shortages.	School bus drivers; critical shortages. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the assistance of each school board or division superintendent, to survey each local school division to identify critical shortages of school bus drivers by geographic area and local school division and to report any such critical shortage to each local school division and to the Virginia Retirement System. The bill permits any school bus driver hired by a local school board in any geographic area or school division in which a critical shortage of school bus drivers has been so identified to elect to continue to receive a service retirement allowance during such employment if the driver meets certain other conditions. This bill is identical to SB 324.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 351	Virginia HB 351 (2020)	bill		enacted	Robert B. Bell	3	28	8	2020-01-01	2020-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/fd314c8b-01a4-4827-a38a-f2c86e1f094d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB351	ba1e1a850d932fd30ca15c81d58eddd3d6699e79825eb5c15b4d6405782722c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 351 (2020) — School bus drivers; critical shortages.

School bus drivers; critical shortages. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the assistance of each school board or division superintendent, to survey each local school division to identify critical shortages of school bus drivers by geographic area and local school division and to report any such critical shortage to each local school division and to the Virginia Retirement System. The bill permits any school bus driver hired by a local school board in any geographic area or school division in which a critical shortage of school bus drivers has been so identified to elect to continue to receive a service retirement allowance during such employment if the driver meets certain other conditions. This bill is identical to SB 324.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB351ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB351) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (3-Y 2-N) — 3–2 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 0-N) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Robert B. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102301D introduction
• 2020-01-01 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB351)
• 2020-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-20 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-01-22 Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-22 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (3-Y 2-N)
• 2020-02-03 Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Reported from Education and Health (13-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
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB351ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-03-06 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
• 2020-03-06 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 379 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fd314c8b-01a4-4827-a38a-f2c86e1f094d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).