republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-724.md

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Bill	School board; broadband, annual report.	School boards; student home broadband access; annual report. Requires, beginning in the 2022 school year and in each school year thereafter through the 2025 school year, each school board to submit an annual report to the Virginia Department of Education and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development listing each student's 9-1-1 address that does not have broadband access, as defined by the broadband guidelines set out by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development for its Virginia Telecommunication Initiative.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 724	Virginia SB 724 (2022)	bill		enacted	Todd E. Pillion	4	32	7	2022-01-21	2022-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e57b1e50-eebc-4e8c-8c47-f8bd6f161759	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB724	b7ba59bc062f1d45cdc6730723db1490b046ce4f4d94688af38c9ffe6459de37	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 724 (2022) — School board; broadband, annual report.

School boards; student home broadband access; annual report. Requires, beginning in the 2022 school year and in each school year thereafter through the 2025 school year, each school board to submit an annual report to the Virginia Department of Education and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development listing each student's 9-1-1 address that does not have broadband access, as defined by the broadband guidelines set out by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development for its Virginia Telecommunication Initiative.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0211 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22107172D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 22103409D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB724ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 22103409D introduction
• 2022-01-21 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2022-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB724)
• 2022-02-03 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-08 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
• 2022-02-22 Assigned Education sub: K-12 referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-07 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-07 Committee substitute printed 22107172D-H1 substitution
• 2022-03-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-09 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-09 Committee substitute agreed to 22107172D-H1
• 2022-03-09 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB724H1
• 2022-03-09 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-09 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Title replaced 22107172D-H1
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB724H1)
• 2022-03-21 Enrolled
• 2022-03-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB724ER)
• 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
• 2022-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 211 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e57b1e50-eebc-4e8c-8c47-f8bd6f161759. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).