republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-1909.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	School board building or property, certain; establishment of gun-free zone permitted.	Certain school board property; establishment of gun-free zone permitted. Permits any school board to deem any non-school zone property that it owns or leases as a gun-free zone and prohibit any individual from knowingly possessing, purchasing, transferring, carrying, storing, or transporting firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof while such individual is upon such property, except certain individuals such as law-enforcement officers and qualified retired law-enforcement officers.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 1909	Virginia HB 1909 (2021)	bill		enacted	Suhas Subramanyam	4	45	10	2021-01-09	2021-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/58e7bdfe-c442-48a2-b622-979988e3d5db	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1909	ce24c16724938c339d9b8d8959f0f1301cc7d265e4023a44544b8a2bba84a261	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1909 (2021) — School board building or property, certain; establishment of gun-free zone permitted.

Certain school board property; establishment of gun-free zone permitted. Permits any school board to deem any non-school zone property that it owns or leases as a gun-free zone and prohibit any individual from knowingly possessing, purchasing, transferring, carrying, storing, or transporting firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof while such individual is upon such property, except certain individuals such as law-enforcement officers and qualified retired law-enforcement officers.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0439 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21103262D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1909ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100496D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Agreed To (54-Y 45-N) — 53–45 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments (21-Y 18-N) — 21–18 (pass) · upper
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — 54–44 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 17-N) — 21–17 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 95-N) — 0–94 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 6-N) — 9–6 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendments (35-Y 4-N) — 35–4 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Public Safety with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Suhas Subramanyam — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100496D introduction
• 2021-01-09 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2021-01-12 Assigned PS sub: Firearms referral-committee
• 2021-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB1909)
• 2021-01-19 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
• 2021-01-20 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-22 Reported from Public Safety with substitute (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-22 Committee substitute printed 21103262D-H1 substitution
• 2021-01-25 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-01-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-26 Committee substitute agreed to 21103262D-H1
• 2021-01-26 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1909H1
• 2021-01-27 Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-27 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
• 2021-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1909H1)
• 2021-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-01-28 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)
• 2021-02-10 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-22 Reading of amendments waived
• 2021-02-22 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2021-02-22 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2021-02-22 Passed Senate with amendments (21-Y 18-N) passage
• 2021-02-23 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-23 Senate amendments rejected by House (0-Y 95-N)
• 2021-02-23 VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 95-N)
• 2021-02-24 Senate insisted on amendments (35-Y 4-N)
• 2021-02-24 Senate requested conference committee
• 2021-02-25 House acceded to request
• 2021-02-25 Conferees appointed by House
• 2021-02-25 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2021-02-27 Amended by conference committee
• 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 17-N)
• 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by House (54-Y 45-N)
• 2021-02-27 VOTE: Agreed To (54-Y 45-N)
• 2021-03-09 Enrolled
• 2021-03-09 Impact statement from DPB (HB1909ER)
• 2021-03-09 Signed by President
• 2021-03-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-03-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
• 2021-03-15 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-30 Approved by Governor-Chapter 439 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58e7bdfe-c442-48a2-b622-979988e3d5db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).