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type: "Bill"
title: "Special education; Bd. of Education to amend certain regulation."
description: "Board of Education; regulations; special education; amendment. Requires the Board of Education to amend a certainregulation relating to special education to remove the word \"component\"following the word \"evaluation,\" thereby ensuring compliance withthe relevant federal regulation and clarifying that the parent ofa child with a disability has the right to an independent educationalevaluation at public expense if the parent disagrees with an evaluationobtained by the local educational agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2314"
citation: "Virginia HB 2314 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martha M. Mugler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82ef7426-2d74-4a91-bce6-7e38cd8c0b1b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2314"
source_hash: "c7a52c75ee954d1f78c0dd05de3ee0d66d87c2097985fc2722739db68e1064d7"
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 2314 (2021) — Special education; Bd. of Education to amend certain regulation.
Board of Education; regulations; special education; amendment. Requires the Board of Education to amend a certainregulation relating to special education to remove the word "component"following the word "evaluation," thereby ensuring compliance withthe relevant federal regulation and clarifying that the parent ofa child with a disability has the right to an independent educationalevaluation at public expense if the parent disagrees with an evaluationobtained by the local educational agency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0109** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0109)
2. **HB2314ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2314ER)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 21103131D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2314)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Martha M. Mugler — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-21** Presented and ordered printed 21103131D `introduction`
- **2021-01-21** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2314)
- **2021-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-03** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-05** 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 (13-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`
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB2314ER)
- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 109 (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/82ef7426-2d74-4a91-bce6-7e38cd8c0b1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).