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Bill

Dress or grooming codes in schools; school boards may include in its code of student conduct, etc.

Board of Education; school boards; dress or grooming codes.Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policiesfor codes of student conduct (i) standards for reducing bias and harassment inthe enforcement of any code of student conduct and (ii) standards for dress orgrooming codes, which the bill defines as any practice, policy, or portion of acode of student conduct adopted by a school board that governs or restricts theattire of any enrolled student. The bill permits any school board to include inits code of student conduct a dress or grooming code. The bill prohibits anyschool board that does not include in its code of student a dress or groomingcode from subjecting a student to discipline for reasons typically assigned toa dress or grooming code. The bill requires any dress or grooming code includedin a school board's code of student conduct or otherwise adopted by a schoolboard to (a) permit any student to wear any religiously, ethnically, orculturally specific or significant head covering or hairstyle, includinghijabs, yarmulkes, headwraps, braids, locs, and cornrows; (b) maintain genderneutrality by subjecting any student to the same set of rules and standardsregardless of gender; (c) not have a disparate impact on students of aparticular gender; (d) be clear, specific, and objective and avoid anysubjective term or standard such as "distracting,""provocative," or "inappropriate"; (e) prohibit any schoolboard employee from enforcing the dress or grooming code by direct physicalcontact with a student or a student's attire; and (f) prohibit any school boardemployee from requiring a student to undress in front of any other individual,including the enforcing school board employee, to comply with the dress orgrooming code.

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Virginia General Assembly

2020

HB 837

Virginia HB 837 (2020)

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enacted

Jennifer Carroll Foy

2020-01-07

2020-04-06

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ocd-bill/65681765-faf5-4718-923f-c707c3e81292

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB837

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2026-07-01

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

2026-07-06

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Virginia HB 837 (2020) — Dress or grooming codes in schools; school boards may include in its code of student conduct, etc.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB837ER) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (HB837) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (HB837H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

VOTE: Passage (81-Y 17-N) — 80–17 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 4-N 3-A) — 8–4 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) — 24–15 (pass) · upper
Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N) — 4–3 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104462D introduction
2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
2020-01-15 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
2020-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB837)
2020-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N)
2020-02-03 Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
2020-02-03 Committee substitute printed 20107220D-H1 substitution
2020-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB837H1)
2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-06 Read second time reading-2
2020-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 20107220D-H1
2020-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB837H1
2020-02-07 Read third time and passed House (81-Y 17-N) passage, reading-3
2020-02-07 VOTE: Passage (81-Y 17-N)
2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-10 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 (8-Y 4-N 3-A) committee-passage
2020-02-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-03-02 Read third time reading-3
2020-03-02 Passed by for the day
2020-03-03 Read third time reading-3
2020-03-03 Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) passage
2020-03-06 Enrolled
2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB837ER)
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
2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/65681765-faf5-4718-923f-c707c3e81292. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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