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type: "Bill"
title: "Libraries and education services; obsolete provisions."
description: "Libraries and education services; obsolete provisions.Revises and repeals obsolete provisions in Title 22.1 (Education) related to early childhood education and elementary and secondaryeducation and Title 42.1 (Libraries) related to libraries and the Virginia Public Records Act. The bill also makes technical amendments.This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 421"
citation: "Virginia SB 421 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John S. Edwards"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e57117b-49c3-43f5-acfa-7db26b0cc3c8"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB421"
source_hash: "c16c043ef2fb8cf4b1cb0257003148936f9e39bad670c0299b6e2e990ad4d985"
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 421 (2022) — Libraries and education services; obsolete provisions.
Libraries and education services; obsolete provisions.Revises and repeals obsolete provisions in Title 22.1 (Education) related to early childhood education and elementary and secondaryeducation and Title 42.1 (Libraries) related to libraries and the Virginia Public Records Act. The bill also makes technical amendments.This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0355** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0355)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101111D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB421)
3. **SB421ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB421ER)
## Votes
- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 0-N) — **950** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- John S. Edwards — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101111D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB421)
- **2022-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-26** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-07** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB421ER)
- **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 355 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e57117b-49c3-43f5-acfa-7db26b0cc3c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).