republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1225.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Broadband services; school boards to appropriate funds for expansion of services for education."
description: "Broadband services; education. Authorizesschool boards to appropriate funds for the purposes of promoting,facilitating, and encouraging the expansion and operation of broadbandservices for educational purposes. The bill authorizes school boardsto partner with private broadband service providers to promote, implement,and subsidize broadband for educational purposes to the householdsof students who would qualify for (i) a child nutrition program or(ii) any other program recognized or adopted by the local schoolboard as a measuring standard to identify at-risk students."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1225"
citation: "Virginia SB 1225 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer B. Boysko"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09b80314-6a81-4143-869d-950e8e286843"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1225"
source_hash: "39a76338de7accc12b560d9a810716f65818c86faedefb7436238e6a31b133c4"
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 1225 (2021) — Broadband services; school boards to appropriate funds for expansion of services for education.

Broadband services; education. Authorizesschool boards to appropriate funds for the purposes of promoting,facilitating, and encouraging the expansion and operation of broadbandservices for educational purposes. The bill authorizes school boardsto partner with private broadband service providers to promote, implement,and subsidize broadband for educational purposes to the householdsof students who would qualify for (i) a child nutrition program or(ii) any other program recognized or adopted by the local schoolboard as a measuring standard to identify at-risk students.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0496** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0496)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101489D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1225)
3. **SB1225ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1225ER)

## Votes

- Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Education — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N) — **94–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
- Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
- Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101489D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB1225)
- **2021-01-18** Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-18** Rereferred to Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Education
- **2021-02-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed House (95-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-18** VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N)
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB1225ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 496 (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/09b80314-6a81-4143-869d-950e8e286843`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).