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type: "Bill"
title: "Discipline; suspension, access to graded work during and after suspension."
description: "Discipline; suspension; access to graded work. Requires school boards to adopt policies and procedures to ensure suspended students are able to access and complete graded work during and after the suspension."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 415"
citation: "Virginia HB 415 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-02"
last_action: "2020-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12ceb956-cb9d-4f3e-95ad-23e2fc19e36a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB415"
source_hash: "e4de62999c33377b10af800be41f69f007deaad96d3488c35d5a085881b811d4"
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 415 (2020) — Discipline; suspension, access to graded work during and after suspension.
Discipline; suspension; access to graded work. Requires school boards to adopt policies and procedures to ensure suspended students are able to access and complete graded work during and after the suspension.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0337)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB415ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB415ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB415E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB415E)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB415)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB415)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) — **961** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendments (19-Y 1-N) — **191** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (3-Y 2-N) — **32** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
- Nancy D. Guy — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100690D `introduction`
- **2020-01-02** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (HB415)
- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (3-Y 2-N)
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Education with amendments (19-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended HB415E
- **2020-02-03** Printed as engrossed 20100690D-E
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-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`
- **2020-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB415E)
- **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`
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB415ER)
- **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
- **2020-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 337 (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/12ceb956-cb9d-4f3e-95ad-23e2fc19e36a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).