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type: "Bill"
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title: "School attendance; 4-H educational programs and activities."
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description: "School attendance; 4-H educational programs andactivities. Provides that students who miss a partial or fullday of school while participating in 4-H educational programs andactivities shall not be counted as absent for the purposes of calculatingaverage daily membership and shall receive course credit in the samemanner as they would for a school field trip. The bill directs eachlocal school board to develop policies and procedures for studentsto make up missed work and may determine the maximum number of schooldays per academic year that a student may spend participating in 4-Heducational programs and activities to not be counted absent. Thisbill is identical to SB 596."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "HB 246"
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citation: "Virginia HB 246 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Terry G. Kilgore"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2022-01-11"
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last_action: "2022-04-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/301dc7e6-61da-42d5-8d47-2bd51593d005"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB246"
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source_hash: "875b32a398c655344cb9a065d8a22712f5879bcd54580b5f530d472c10f34401"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 246 (2022) — School attendance; 4-H educational programs and activities.
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School attendance; 4-H educational programs andactivities. Provides that students who miss a partial or fullday of school while participating in 4-H educational programs andactivities shall not be counted as absent for the purposes of calculatingaverage daily membership and shall receive course credit in the samemanner as they would for a school field trip. The bill directs eachlocal school board to develop policies and procedures for studentsto make up missed work and may determine the maximum number of schooldays per academic year that a student may spend participating in 4-Heducational programs and activities to not be counted absent. Thisbill is identical to SB 596.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **CHAP0058** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0058)
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2. **HB246ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB246ER)
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3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103920D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB246)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
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- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
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- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
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- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103920D `introduction`
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- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB246)
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- **2022-01-19** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
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- **2022-01-26** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2022-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2022-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2022-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2022-02-01** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
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- **2022-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2022-02-02** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2022-02-17** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2022-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
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- **2022-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2022-02-21** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2022-02-23** Enrolled
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- **2022-02-23** Signed by Speaker
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- **2022-02-23** Signed by President
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- **2022-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB246ER)
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- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
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- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
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- **2022-04-01** Approved by Governor-Chapter 58 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/301dc7e6-61da-42d5-8d47-2bd51593d005`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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