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type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; enrollment, certain children placed in foster care."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 275"
citation: "Virginia SB 275 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee7cf978-4b4b-4093-a229-4f253cb25d16"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB275"
source_hash: "f9e4e9e7e5910c1a0f8f179b4902274e965c9768db23257ba1c87fbae685c1b0"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0475)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB275ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB275ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB275S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB275)
4. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB275S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB275S1)
## Votes
- Reported from Education with amendment (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee7cf978-4b4b-4093-a229-4f253cb25d16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).