republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-933.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "'Students with limited or interrupted formal education;' DOE and Board to take certain actions."
description: "Department of Education; common statewide definition; \"students with limited or interrupted formal education.\" Requires the Department of Education to develop and adopt a common statewide definition for the term \"students with limited or interrupted formal education\" and to require local school divisions to report on the number of students who fall under such definition as part of the required data collection and reporting on average daily membership for the purposes of documenting any changes in such numbers over time. The bill requires that theBoard of Education evaluate the supports and programs available to \"students with limited or interrupted formal education\" in local school divisions to determine whether the calculations for the school quality indicators within the Board's Regulations Establishing the Standards for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia are appropriate or whether changes in methodology could be made to more comprehensively measure the academic and nonacademic achievement of such student population."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 933"
citation: "Virginia SB 933 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51b46a57-cf6c-4047-89ed-bb1d15bdf129"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB933"
source_hash: "e4ab40c2e16aeab73dbd1f643706f62fafc0f3406f31642b45bab79640aa2cea"
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 933 (2020) — 'Students with limited or interrupted formal education;' DOE and Board to take certain actions.

Department of Education; common statewide definition; "students with limited or interrupted formal education." Requires the Department of Education to develop and adopt a common statewide definition for the term "students with limited or interrupted formal education" and to require local school divisions to report on the number of students who fall under such definition as part of the required data collection and reporting on average daily membership for the purposes of documenting any changes in such numbers over time. The bill requires that theBoard of Education evaluate the supports and programs available to "students with limited or interrupted formal education" in local school divisions to determine whether the calculations for the school quality indicators within the Board's Regulations Establishing the Standards for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia are appropriate or whether changes in methodology could be made to more comprehensively measure the academic and nonacademic achievement of such student population.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0696)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB933ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB933ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB933S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB933S1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB933)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB933)

## Votes

- Reported from Education (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 2-N) — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (85-Y 14-N) — **84–14** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) — **27–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Presented and ordered printed 20104351D `introduction`
- **2020-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Impact statement from DPB (SB933)
- **2020-02-06** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Committee substitute printed 20107168D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 20107168D-S1
- **2020-02-10** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB933S1
- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB933S1)
- **2020-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Reported from Education (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** Passed House (85-Y 14-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-27** VOTE: Passage (85-Y 14-N)
- **2020-03-04** Enrolled
- **2020-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB933ER)
- **2020-03-05** Signed by President
- **2020-03-05** Signed by Speaker
- **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 696 (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/51b46a57-cf6c-4047-89ed-bb1d15bdf129`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).