republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1132.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	SB 1132	Virginia SB 1132 (2021)	bill		enacted	David R. Suetterlein	4	32	7	2020-12-31	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/f9247896-b0fe-4326-b028-140325fd4077	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1132	b27493ba5bbdca9e11f115cedb12ad3719fa6a5f5f7edb618b14f24dd72ad8db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1132 (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. CHAP0293 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101830D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 21101830D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1132ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Education — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N 1-A) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (84-Y 16-N) — 83–16 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-31 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101830D introduction
• 2020-12-31 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2021-01-14 Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2021-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB1132)
• 2021-01-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-18 Reading of amendment waived
• 2021-01-18 Amendment by Senator Suetterlein agreed to amendment-passage
• 2021-01-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1132E
• 2021-01-18 Printed as engrossed 21101830D-E
• 2021-01-19 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2021-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB1132E)
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Education
• 2021-02-10 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-10 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-15 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2021-02-15 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2021-02-15 Passed House with amendment (84-Y 16-N) passage
• 2021-02-15 VOTE: Adoption (84-Y 16-N)
• 2021-02-17 House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-19 Enrolled
• 2021-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB1132ER)
• 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
• 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 293 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9247896-b0fe-4326-b028-140325fd4077. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).