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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School board; broadband, annual report."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 724"
citation: "Virginia SB 724 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e57b1e50-eebc-4e8c-8c47-f8bd6f161759"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB724"
source_hash: "b7ba59bc062f1d45cdc6730723db1490b046ce4f4d94688af38c9ffe6459de37"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0211)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22107172D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB724H1)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 22103409D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB724)
4. **SB724ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB724ER)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e57b1e50-eebc-4e8c-8c47-f8bd6f161759`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).