republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-1790.md

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Bill	Public schools; severe weather conditions and other emergency situations.	Public schools; severe weather conditions andother emergency situations; unscheduled remote learning days. Providesthat when severe weather conditions or other emergency situationshave resulted in the closing of any school in a school division forin-person instruction, the school division may declare an unscheduledremote learning day whereby the school provides synchronous or asynchronousinstruction, or some combination thereof, to all students in theschool in lieu of in-person instruction without a reduction in theamount paid by the Commonwealth from the Basic School Aid Fund, providedthat the school division has established an unscheduled remote learningday plan that ensures that every student is provided instruction and services on such unscheduled remote learning day that are comparablein quality to the instruction and services provided to learners onany other remote learning day.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 1790	Virginia HB 1790 (2021)	bill		enacted	Joseph P. McNamara	4	33	8	2021-01-01	2021-02-25	openstates	ocd-bill/70b9df9b-b9f7-42b4-b271-734c92f861fc	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1790	82d027691272155f8299b7b41189d8c8253fd12ec999e5f683328acab2d5b460	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1790 (2021) — Public schools; severe weather conditions and other emergency situations.

Public schools; severe weather conditions andother emergency situations; unscheduled remote learning days. Providesthat when severe weather conditions or other emergency situationshave resulted in the closing of any school in a school division forin-person instruction, the school division may declare an unscheduledremote learning day whereby the school provides synchronous or asynchronousinstruction, or some combination thereof, to all students in theschool in lieu of in-person instruction without a reduction in theamount paid by the Commonwealth from the Basic School Aid Fund, providedthat the school division has established an unscheduled remote learningday plan that ensures that every student is provided instruction and services on such unscheduled remote learning day that are comparablein quality to the instruction and services provided to learners onany other remote learning day.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0019 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1790ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101395D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 21101395D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage #2 (75-Y 25-N) — 74–25 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (77-Y 23-N) — 76–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joseph P. McNamara — primary (person)
• David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101395D introduction
• 2021-01-01 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2021-01-13 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2021-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB1790)
• 2021-01-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-18 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-19 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-01-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-20 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2021-01-20 Engrossed by House as amended HB1790E
• 2021-01-20 Printed as engrossed 21101395D-E
• 2021-01-21 Passed by for the day
• 2021-01-22 Passed by for the day
• 2021-01-25 Read third time and passed House (77-Y 23-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-25 VOTE: Passage (77-Y 23-N)
• 2021-01-25 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2021-01-25 Passed House (75-Y 25-N) passage
• 2021-01-25 VOTE: Passage #2 (75-Y 25-N)
• 2021-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-01-26 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2021-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1790E)
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-11 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-15 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-17 Enrolled
• 2021-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB1790ER)
• 2021-02-17 Signed by President
• 2021-02-18 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2021
• 2021-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 26, 2021
• 2021-02-25 Approved by Governor-Chapter 19 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70b9df9b-b9f7-42b4-b271-734c92f861fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).