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type: "Bill"
title: "Economic education and financial literacy required in middle and high school grades; employment."
description: "Economic education and financial literacy requiredin middle and high school grades; employment arrangements. Addsto objectives developed and approved by the Board of Education foreconomics education and financial literacy at the middle and highschool levels the implications of various employment arrangementswith regard to benefits, protections, and long-term financial sustainability. Employment arrangements is defined in the bill as full-time employment, part-time employment, independent contract work, gig work, piecework, contingent work, day labor work, freelance work, and 1099work."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1905"
citation: "Virginia HB 1905 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joshua G. Cole"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2021-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07621f5f-848c-46d5-bd45-0342625a3d02"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1905"
source_hash: "aca9c5a0d66e7a18de07edd7e043a5494a451fde80d19574e266c3c7b81829eb"
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 HB 1905 (2021) — Economic education and financial literacy required in middle and high school grades; employment.
Economic education and financial literacy requiredin middle and high school grades; employment arrangements. Addsto objectives developed and approved by the Board of Education foreconomics education and financial literacy at the middle and highschool levels the implications of various employment arrangementswith regard to benefits, protections, and long-term financial sustainability. Employment arrangements is defined in the bill as full-time employment, part-time employment, independent contract work, gig work, piecework, contingent work, day labor work, freelance work, and 1099work.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0025** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0025)
2. **HB1905ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1905ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102521D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1905)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Joshua G. Cole — primary (person)
- Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102521D `introduction`
- **2021-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1905)
- **2021-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-20** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-26** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **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 (HB1905ER)
- **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 25 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07621f5f-848c-46d5-bd45-0342625a3d02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).