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Bill School attendance; 4-H educational programs and activities. School attendance; 4-H educational programs and activities. Provides that students who miss a partial or full day of school while participating in 4-H educational programs and activities shall not be counted as absent for the purposes of calculating average daily membership and shall receive course credit in the same manner as they would for a school field trip. The bill directs each local school board to develop policies and procedures for students to make up missed work and may determine the maximum number of school days per academic year that a student may spend participating in 4-H educational programs and activities to not be counted absent. This bill is identical to HB 246. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2022 SB 596 Virginia SB 596 (2022)
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Virginia SB 596 (2022) — School attendance; 4-H educational programs and activities.

School attendance; 4-H educational programs and activities. Provides that students who miss a partial or full day of school while participating in 4-H educational programs and activities shall not be counted as absent for the purposes of calculating average daily membership and shall receive course credit in the same manner as they would for a school field trip. The bill directs each local school board to develop policies and procedures for students to make up missed work and may determine the maximum number of school days per academic year that a student may spend participating in 4-H educational programs and activities to not be counted absent. This bill is identical to HB 246.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0059 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103919D (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB596ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103919D introduction
  • 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2022-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (SB596)
  • 2022-01-19 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2022-01-27 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2022-02-01 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2022-02-01 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-01 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
  • 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
  • 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2022-02-23 Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-25 Read second time reading-2
  • 2022-02-28 Read third time reading-3
  • 2022-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-03-02 Enrolled
  • 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
  • 2022-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB596ER)
  • 2022-03-03 Signed by President
  • 2022-03-09 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
  • 2022-03-09 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
  • 2022-04-01 Approved by Governor-Chapter 59 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b31f96eb-7ca3-4024-93f4-7ec5dc75a519. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).