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Bill	Student-athletes; sudden cardiac arrest prevention.	Sudden cardiac arrest prevention in student-athletes. Directs the Board of Education to develop, biennially update, and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies to inform and educate coaches, student-athletes, and student-athletes' parents or guardians about the nature and risk of sudden cardiac arrest, procedures for removal from and return to play, and the risks of not reporting symptoms. The bill also requires local school divisions to develop and biennially update policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of symptoms that may lead to sudden cardiac arrest in student-athletes.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 463	Virginia SB 463 (2020)	bill		enacted	Bryce E. Reeves	4	30	6	2020-01-07	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/a2898b3a-e996-4e4e-8888-2fe9259e5acb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB463	aaa961db153407de36d7466c08e3e51db636aad3be713142bc3aaf342abd21d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 463 (2020) — Student-athletes; sudden cardiac arrest prevention.

Sudden cardiac arrest prevention in student-athletes. Directs the Board of Education to develop, biennially update, and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies to inform and educate coaches, student-athletes, and student-athletes' parents or guardians about the nature and risk of sudden cardiac arrest, procedures for removal from and return to play, and the risks of not reporting symptoms. The bill also requires local school divisions to develop and biennially update policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of symptoms that may lead to sudden cardiac arrest in student-athletes.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB463ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB463E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB463) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
• Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer A. Kiggans — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
• Mark J. Peake — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102345D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB463)
• 2020-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-02-03 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB463E
• 2020-02-03 Printed as engrossed 20102345D-E
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB463E)
• 2020-02-12 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB463ER)
• 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
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 694 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2898b3a-e996-4e4e-8888-2fe9259e5acb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).