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| Bill | Technical professional licenses; military science endorsement. | State Board of Education; technical professional licenses; military science endorsement. Directs the State Board of Education to amend its regulations to require that persons seeking a technical professional license with an endorsement to teach military science have either the appropriate credentials issued by the United States military or a recommendation from a Virginia employing educational agency. This bill is identical to HB 1568. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 978 | Virginia SB 978 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 978 (2020) — Technical professional licenses; military science endorsement.
State Board of Education; technical professional licenses; military science endorsement. Directs the State Board of Education to amend its regulations to require that persons seeking a technical professional license with an endorsement to teach military science have either the appropriate credentials issued by the United States military or a recommendation from a Virginia employing educational agency. This bill is identical to HB 1568.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB978ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB978) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- John S. Edwards — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-15 Presented and ordered printed 20104761D
introduction - 2020-01-15 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2020-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB978)
- 2020-01-27 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2020-02-06 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-10 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-10 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-13 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2020-02-17 Reported from Education (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 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-20 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-24 Enrolled
- 2020-02-24 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-02-25 Signed by President
- 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB978ER)
- 2020-02-28 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 28, 2020
- 2020-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 6, 2020
- 2020-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 109 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08896d37-d5c7-4484-8c16-29c0f685fb2f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).