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| Bill | Governor's Schools, academic year; certain practices prohibited and required. | Academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and permitted. Prohibits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof from (i) discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin; (ii) engaging in proxy discrimination, as defined in the bill, in student admissions; or (iii) seeking information on students' race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin during the application process for admission to such school unless expressly required by federal law, and to the extent it is required by federal law, the bill requires such information to be withheld to the maximum extent practicable from any individual involved in admissions decisions to the end that admissions decisions are blind as to the applicants' race, sex, color, ethnicity, and national origin. The bill permits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof to use traditional academic success factors, as defined in the bill, in student admissions and provides that such use presumptively does not constitute proxy discrimination. The bill also contains provisions relating to evidentiary burdens of proof in certain causes of action involving such proxy discrimination or traditional academic success factors. The bill requires each local school board that jointly manages and controls a regional academic year Governor's school to collaborate to ensure that each public middle school that is eligible to send students to attend such Governor's school offers coursework, curriculum, and instruction that is comparable in content and in rigor in order to provide each student in each such middle school with the opportunity to gain admission to and excel academically at such Governor's school. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | HB 127 | Virginia HB 127 (2022) |
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Virginia HB 127 (2022) — Governor's Schools, academic year; certain practices prohibited and required.
Academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and permitted. Prohibits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof from (i) discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin; (ii) engaging in proxy discrimination, as defined in the bill, in student admissions; or (iii) seeking information on students' race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin during the application process for admission to such school unless expressly required by federal law, and to the extent it is required by federal law, the bill requires such information to be withheld to the maximum extent practicable from any individual involved in admissions decisions to the end that admissions decisions are blind as to the applicants' race, sex, color, ethnicity, and national origin. The bill permits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof to use traditional academic success factors, as defined in the bill, in student admissions and provides that such use presumptively does not constitute proxy discrimination. The bill also contains provisions relating to evidentiary burdens of proof in certain causes of action involving such proxy discrimination or traditional academic success factors. The bill requires each local school board that jointly manages and controls a regional academic year Governor's school to collaborate to ensure that each public middle school that is eligible to send students to attend such Governor's school offers coursework, curriculum, and instruction that is comparable in content and in rigor in order to provide each student in each such middle school with the opportunity to gain admission to and excel academically at such Governor's school.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0485 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22107292D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- HB127ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103749D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 22103749D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 35-N) — 62–35 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute (26-Y 13-N) — 26–13 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (50-Y 48-N) — 49–48 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Glenn R. Davis — primary (person)
- A.C. Cordoza — cosponsor (person)
- Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
- Bill D. Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
- Karen S. Greenhalgh — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- Marie E. March — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip A. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie R. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Scott A. Wyatt — cosponsor (person)
- Tara A. Durant — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
- Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103749D
introduction - 2022-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2022-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB127)
- 2022-01-19 Assigned Education sub: K-12
referral-committee - 2022-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 2022-01-26 Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N)
committee-passage - 2022-01-28 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-01-31 Passed by for the day
- 2022-02-01 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-01 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-01 Amendments by Delegate Davis agreed to
amendment-passage - 2022-02-01 Pending question ordered
- 2022-02-01 Engrossed by House as amended HB127E
- 2022-02-01 Printed as engrossed 22103749D-E
- 2022-02-02 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-02 Pending question ordered
- 2022-02-02 Passed House (50-Y 48-N)
passage - 2022-02-02 VOTE: Passage (50-Y 48-N)
- 2022-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2022-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB127E)
- 2022-02-16 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2022-03-03 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-03-03 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-03-03 Committee substitute printed 22107292D-S1
substitution - 2022-03-03 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
- 2022-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB127S1)
- 2022-03-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-08 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-08 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-03-08 Committee substitute agreed to 22107292D-S1
- 2022-03-08 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB127S1
- 2022-03-08 Passed Senate with substitute (26-Y 13-N)
passage - 2022-03-09 Senate substitute agreed to by House 22107292D-S1 (63-Y 35-N)
- 2022-03-09 VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 35-N)
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled
- 2022-03-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB127ER)
- 2022-03-11 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-11 Signed by President
- 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 Approved by Governor-Chapter 485 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac92ab07-bf54-4f5a-bf54-ac0507f16ec5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).