republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-853.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee; established, report."
description: "Department of Education; Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee; report. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems appropriate to a Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee for the purpose of providing (i) standards recommendations to the Department of Education that shall be considered by the Board of Education during the 2021-2022 review of the history and social science Standards of Learning and (ii) recommendations on meaningful professional development with school personnel related to culturally relevant and inclusive education practices. The bill requires the Committee to report its recommendations to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the Chairs of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than July 1, 2021. This bill is identical to HB 916."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 853"
citation: "Virginia SB 853 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer B. Boysko"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e65b5b41-0f60-49c3-8162-b140a00c8a42"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB853"
source_hash: "0a25034d0a6dba3368b2e7fc1b141617ff9caaea3e74cbbae6b4840240e297df"
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 853 (2020) — Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee; established, report.

Department of Education; Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee; report. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems appropriate to a Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee for the purpose of providing (i) standards recommendations to the Department of Education that shall be considered by the Board of Education during the 2021-2022 review of the history and social science Standards of Learning and (ii) recommendations on meaningful professional development with school personnel related to culturally relevant and inclusive education practices. The bill requires the Committee to report its recommendations to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the Chairs of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than July 1, 2021. This bill is identical to HB 916.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0573)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB853ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB853ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB853S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB853)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB853S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB853S1)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (12-Y 2-N 1-A) — **12–2** (pass) · upper
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (22-Y 18-N) — **22–18** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (56-Y 41-N) — **55–41** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 12-N) — **27–12** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 7-N) — **15–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
- George L. Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105085D `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (12-Y 2-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Committee substitute printed 20105926D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-23** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB853S1)
- **2020-02-04** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 20105926D-S1
- **2020-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB853S1
- **2020-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 12-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`
- **2020-02-17** Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2020-02-20** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-02-20** Passed House with amendments (56-Y 41-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-20** VOTE: Passage (56-Y 41-N)
- **2020-02-24** House amendments agreed to by Senate (22-Y 18-N)
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB853ER)
- **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
- **2020-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 573 (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/e65b5b41-0f60-49c3-8162-b140a00c8a42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).