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type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; severe weather conditions and other emergency situations."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1132"
citation: "Virginia SB 1132 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-12-31"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9247896-b0fe-4326-b028-140325fd4077"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1132"
source_hash: "b27493ba5bbdca9e11f115cedb12ad3719fa6a5f5f7edb618b14f24dd72ad8db"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0293)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101830D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1132)
3. **Printed as engrossed 21101830D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1132E)
4. **SB1132ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1132ER)
## Votes
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Education — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N 1-A) — **120** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **350** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (84-Y 16-N) — **8316** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9247896-b0fe-4326-b028-140325fd4077`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).