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Bill	School principals; incident reports, written threats against school personnel, etc.	School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan. This bill is identical to SB 36.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 4	Virginia HB 4 (2022)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Wyatt	5	48	10	2021-12-06	2022-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/aaea7057-9ac6-4415-b4ff-b0ce402deacd	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4	9ea633494dc12e580b05f89489add7d6c0925bbb6b2f3a6f43d79c35fd5c36a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 4 (2022) — School principals; incident reports, written threats against school personnel, etc.

School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan. This bill is identical to SB 36.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0793 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22105170D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB4ER (committee substitute) — source
4. HB4ER2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102790D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 43-N) — 56–43 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (65-Y 34-N) — 64–34 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 12-N) — 87–12 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (59-Y 40-N) — 58–40 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Rejected (47-Y 51-N) — 47–50 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendments (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendments (27-Y 13-N) — 27–13 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Scott A. Wyatt — primary (person)
• Amanda E. Batten — cosponsor (person)
• Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
• Bill D. Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
• Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
• Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
• G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
• Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
• James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
• Karen S. Greenhalgh — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
• Kim A. Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
• Marie E. March — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip A. Scott — cosponsor (person)
• R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
• Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie R. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Tara A. Durant — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy V. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)
• William C. Wampler III — cosponsor (person)
• Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-12-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102790D introduction
• 2021-12-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2022-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB4)
• 2022-01-25 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-26 Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-26 Committee substitute printed 22105170D-H1 substitution
• 2022-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 22105170D-H1
• 2022-01-31 Amendment by Delegate Rasoul rejected (47-Y 51-N) amendment-failure
• 2022-01-31 VOTE: Rejected (47-Y 51-N)
• 2022-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB4H1
• 2022-02-01 Read third time and passed House (59-Y 40-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 VOTE: Passage (59-Y 40-N)
• 2022-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-02 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2022-02-17 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-21 Reading of amendments waived
• 2022-02-21 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2022-02-21 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2022-02-21 Passed Senate with amendments (27-Y 13-N) passage
• 2022-02-23 Senate amendments agreed to by House (65-Y 34-N)
• 2022-02-23 VOTE: Adoption (65-Y 34-N)
• 2022-02-25 Enrolled
• 2022-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB4H1)
• 2022-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-02-25 Signed by President
• 2022-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB4ER)
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by House
• 2022-04-27 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-04-27 House concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 (57-Y 43-N)
• 2022-04-27 VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 43-N)
• 2022-04-27 House concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (88-Y 12-N)
• 2022-04-27 VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 12-N)
• 2022-04-27 Amendment #1 passed by for the day
• 2022-04-27 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 Governor's recommendation adopted in-part
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled bill text (HB4ER2)
• 2022-04-27 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Signed by President as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
• 2022-04-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
• 2022-05-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 793 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aaea7057-9ac6-4415-b4ff-b0ce402deacd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).