republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1196.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency training."
description: "Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency. The bill requires teacher, principal, anddivision superintendent evaluations to include an evaluation of cultural competency. The bill requires every person seeking initiallicensure or renewal of a license from the Board of Education (i)to complete instruction or training in cultural competency and (ii)with an endorsement in history and social sciences to complete instructionin African American history, as prescribed by the Board. The billalso requires each school board to adopt and implement policies thatrequire each teacher and any other school board employee holdinga license issued by the Board to complete cultural competency training,in accordance with guidance issued by the Board, at least every twoyears."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1196"
citation: "Virginia SB 1196 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mamie E. Locke"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9300d16a-0f35-43f3-ace9-8552ef593f91"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1196"
source_hash: "b3b7d773dc0d568641ed7f711dd470ff256e1e9b6b031c9d1b0d274d7f001446"
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 1196 (2021) — Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency training.

Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency. The bill requires teacher, principal, anddivision superintendent evaluations to include an evaluation of cultural competency. The bill requires every person seeking initiallicensure or renewal of a license from the Board of Education (i)to complete instruction or training in cultural competency and (ii)with an endorsement in history and social sciences to complete instructionin African American history, as prescribed by the Board. The billalso requires each school board to adopt and implement policies thatrequire each teacher and any other school board employee holdinga license issued by the Board to complete cultural competency training,in accordance with guidance issued by the Board, at least every twoyears.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0024** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0024)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101992D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1196)
3. **SB1196ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1196ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (57-Y 43-N) — **56–43** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (14-Y 8-N) — **14–8** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 16-N) — **22–16** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 3-N) — **13–3** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Education — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 4-N 1-A) — **9–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101992D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 4-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-14** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB1196)
- **2021-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-05** Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 16-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Education
- **2021-02-10** Reported from Education (14-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed House (57-Y 43-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-15** VOTE: Passage (57-Y 43-N)
- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
- **2021-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB1196ER)
- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
- **2021-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 24 (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/9300d16a-0f35-43f3-ace9-8552ef593f91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).