republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-275.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Public schools; enrollment, certain children placed in foster care.	School enrollment; students formerly in foster care. Provides for the immediate enrollment of any student who was in foster care upon reaching 18 years of age but who has not yet reached 22 years of age for whom the local department of social services or child-placing agency is unable to produce documents normally required for enrollment. Under current law, an exception to the requirement for such documentation is provided only to students currently in foster care.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 275	Virginia SB 275 (2020)	bill		enacted	George L. Barker	4	29	6	2020-01-03	2020-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/ee7cf978-4b4b-4093-a229-4f253cb25d16	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB275	f9e4e9e7e5910c1a0f8f179b4902274e965c9768db23257ba1c87fbae685c1b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 275 (2020) — Public schools; enrollment, certain children placed in foster care.

School enrollment; students formerly in foster care. Provides for the immediate enrollment of any student who was in foster care upon reaching 18 years of age but who has not yet reached 22 years of age for whom the local department of social services or child-placing agency is unable to produce documents normally required for enrollment. Under current law, an exception to the requirement for such documentation is provided only to students currently in foster care.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB275ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB275S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB275S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education with amendment (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• George L. Barker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101876D introduction
• 2020-01-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-09 Committee substitute printed 20105415D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-13 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-13 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-01-13 Committee substitute agreed to 20105415D-S1
• 2020-01-13 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB275S1
• 2020-01-14 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB275S1)
• 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Reported from Education with amendment (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-20 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2020-02-20 Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-20 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB275ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-10 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-25 Approved by Governor-Chapter 475 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ee7cf978-4b4b-4093-a229-4f253cb25d16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).