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| Bill | COVID-19; DOE to recommend options for isolation & quarantine for students & employees at schools. | Board of Education; COVID-19; test-to-stay guidelines. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with theDepartment of Health, to (i) recommend as best practice the shortestduration of quarantine possible, as recommended by the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, for students and employees at publicschools who contract COVID-19 and (ii) develop test-to-stay guidelinesfor such schools and recommend such guidelines to schools for useas an alternative to quarantine for students and employees who contract COVID-19. The bill also provides that all guidelines established pursuant to the bill shall be immediately distributed to local schoolboards and shall reflect the most updated recommendations from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention to limit the amount oftime out of the classroom to be as short as possible, including noquarantine, as recommended for asymptomatic individuals who havebeen fully vaccinated either within six months or have a boostedvaccination status. The bill contains an emergency clause. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 431 | Virginia SB 431 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 431 (2022) — COVID-19; DOE to recommend options for isolation & quarantine for students & employees at schools.
Board of Education; COVID-19; test-to-stay guidelines. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with theDepartment of Health, to (i) recommend as best practice the shortestduration of quarantine possible, as recommended by the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, for students and employees at publicschools who contract COVID-19 and (ii) develop test-to-stay guidelinesfor such schools and recommend such guidelines to schools for useas an alternative to quarantine for students and employees who contract COVID-19. The bill also provides that all guidelines established pursuant to the bill shall be immediately distributed to local schoolboards and shall reflect the most updated recommendations from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention to limit the amount oftime out of the classroom to be as short as possible, including noquarantine, as recommended for asymptomatic individuals who havebeen fully vaccinated either within six months or have a boostedvaccination status. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0692 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 22105718D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/12/22 22104124D (committee substitute) — source
- SB431ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (10-Y 4-N) — 10–4 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) — 87–11 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 7-N) — 33–7 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)
- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/12/22 22104124D
introduction - 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-01-25 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2022-01-27 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-03 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-03 Committee substitute printed 22105718D-S1
substitution - 2022-02-03 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (10-Y 4-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-07 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-07 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-02-07 Committee substitute agreed to 22105718D-S1
- 2022-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB431S1
- 2022-02-08 Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 7-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-23 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-23 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-23 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2022-02-26 Assigned Education sub: K-12
referral-committee - 2022-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB431S1)
- 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 2022-03-07 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-03-07 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-08 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-03-09 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-09 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2022-03-09 Emergency clause deleted
- 2022-03-09 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2022-03-09 Passed House with amendment (88-Y 11-N)
passage - 2022-03-09 VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N)
- 2022-03-10 House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-21 Enrolled
- 2022-03-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB431ER)
- 2022-03-21 Signed by President
- 2022-03-22 Signed by Speaker
- 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 692 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91c64065-a1fb-4e85-9739-873cfef3ef21. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).