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type: "Bill"
title: "Internet Safety Advisory Council; established, sunset date, report."
description: "Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students and teachers in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 31, 2023. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2024."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1026"
citation: "Virginia HB 1026 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth R. Guzman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad944487-20de-4826-bdb5-9451a0adca41"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB1026"
source_hash: "7f5f17e4ea36feaa71fd79703cb370f8a5a83333f80d33b3fe8e93e39f879afd"
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 1026 (2022) — Internet Safety Advisory Council; established, sunset date, report.
Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students and teachers in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 31, 2023. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2024.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0776** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0776)
2. **Governor's substitute printed 22108163D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1)
3. **HB1026ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026ER)
4. **HB1026ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026ER2)
5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103266D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026)
## Votes
- VOTE: Passage #2 (60-Y 39-N) — **6038** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 44-N) — **5443** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (18-Y 4-N) — **184** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **61** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (59-Y 41-N) — **5940** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (60-Y 39-N) — **6038** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (27-Y 13-N) — **2713** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103266D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (HB1026)
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- **2022-02-07** Reported from Education (18-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** Read third time and passed House (60-Y 39-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-11** VOTE: Passage (60-Y 39-N)
- **2022-02-11** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2022-02-11** Passed House (60-Y 39-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-11** VOTE: Passage #2 (60-Y 39-N)
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-02** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Passed by for the day
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Reading of amendments waived
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-03-08** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Senate amendments agreed to by House (54-Y 44-N)
- **2022-03-09** VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 44-N)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled
- **2022-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1026ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Governor's recommendation received by House
- **2022-04-11** Governor's substitute printed 22108163D-H1
- **2022-04-27** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (59-Y 41-N)
- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (59-Y 41-N)
- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (27-Y 13-N)
- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (HB1026ER2)
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Enacted, Chapter 776 (effective 7/1/22) `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad944487-20de-4826-bdb5-9451a0adca41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).