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| Bill | Public elementary and secondary schools, etc.; provision of in-person instruction. | Public elementary and secondary schools and public school-based early childhood care and education programs; student instruction; masks; emergency. Requires, except in the case of the 10 unscheduled remote learning days otherwise permitted by law or in certain cases of student discipline, each school board to offer in-person instruction, as defined in the bill, to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary or secondary school for at least the minimum number of required annual instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. The bill permits, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any regulation, rule, or policy implemented by a school board, school division, school official, or other state or local authority, the parent of any child enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school, or in any school-based early childhood care and education program, to elect for such child to not wear a mask while on school property. The bill provides that no parent making such an election shall be required to provide a reason or any certification of the child's health or education status and no student shall suffer any adverse disciplinary or academic consequences as a result of this parental election. The bill requires each local school division to comply with the foregoing provisions relating to masks no later than March 1, 2022. The bill clarifies that none of the foregoing provisions shall be construed to affect the authority granted to the Governor to achieve the purposes of relevant emergency services and disaster law with regard to a communicable disease of public health threat. The bill contains an emergency clause. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 739 | Virginia SB 739 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 739 (2022) — Public elementary and secondary schools, etc.; provision of in-person instruction.
Public elementary and secondary schools and public school-based early childhood care and education programs; student instruction; masks; emergency. Requires, except in the case of the 10 unscheduled remote learning days otherwise permitted by law or in certain cases of student discipline, each school board to offer in-person instruction, as defined in the bill, to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary or secondary school for at least the minimum number of required annual instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. The bill permits, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any regulation, rule, or policy implemented by a school board, school division, school official, or other state or local authority, the parent of any child enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school, or in any school-based early childhood care and education program, to elect for such child to not wear a mask while on school property. The bill provides that no parent making such an election shall be required to provide a reason or any certification of the child's health or education status and no student shall suffer any adverse disciplinary or academic consequences as a result of this parental election. The bill requires each local school division to comply with the foregoing provisions relating to masks no later than March 1, 2022. The bill clarifies that none of the foregoing provisions shall be construed to affect the authority granted to the Governor to achieve the purposes of relevant emergency services and disaster law with regard to a communicable disease of public health threat. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0002 (committee substitute) — source
- Presented and ordered printed 22104603D (committee substitute) — source
- SB739ER (committee substitute) — source
- SB739ER2 (committee substitute) — source
- SB739S1 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 48-N) — 51–48 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 17-N) — 21–17 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Rejected (48-Y 52-N) — 48–51 (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (77-Y 23-N) — 76–23 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Rejected (48-Y 52-N) — 48–51 (fail) · lower
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 6-N) — 9–6 (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #1, 3, and 4 (21-Y 19-N) — 21–19 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N) — 51–48 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
- Substitute by Senator Petersen agreed to (29-Y 9-N) — 29–9 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)
- Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)
- Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)
- Bryce E. Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
- J. Chapman Petersen — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans — cosponsor (person)
- Jill Holtzman Vogel — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mark J. Peake — cosponsor (person)
- Richard H. Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan T. McDougle — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen D. Newman — cosponsor (person)
- T. Travis Hackworth — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas K. Norment, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 22104603D
introduction - 2022-01-21 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB739)
- 2022-01-25 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2022-02-02 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-03 Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 6-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-07 Passed by for the day
- 2022-02-08 Floor substitute printed 22106287D-S1 (Petersen)
- 2022-02-08 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-08 Committee amendments rejected
- 2022-02-08 Reading of substitute waived
- 2022-02-08 Substitute by Senator Petersen agreed to (29-Y 9-N)
- 2022-02-08 Title replaced 22106287D-S1
- 2022-02-08 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB739S1
- 2022-02-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB739S1)
- 2022-02-09 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 17-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-10 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-10 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-10 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2022-02-11 Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-13 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-14 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-14 Passed by temporary motion rejected
- 2022-02-14 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-14 Amendment by Delegate Rasoul rejected (48-Y 52-N)
amendment-failure - 2022-02-14 VOTE: Rejected (48-Y 52-N)
- 2022-02-14 Amendment by Delegate Simon rejected (48-Y 52-N)
amendment-failure - 2022-02-14 VOTE: Rejected (48-Y 52-N)
- 2022-02-14 Pending question ordered
- 2022-02-14 Passed House (52-Y 48-N)
passage - 2022-02-14 VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N)
- 2022-02-14 Enrolled
- 2022-02-14 Signed by President
- 2022-02-14 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-02-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 14, 2022
- 2022-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 21, 2022
- 2022-02-14 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 2022-02-15 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #1, 3, and 4 (21-Y 19-N)
- 2022-02-15 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (39-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-16 Amendments specific and severable
- 2022-02-16 House concurred in Governor's recommendation #1, 3 and 4 (52-Y 48-N)
- 2022-02-16 VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 48-N)
- 2022-02-16 House concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (77-Y 23-N)
- 2022-02-16 VOTE: Adoption (77-Y 23-N)
- 2022-02-16 Emergency clause added by Governor's recommendation
- 2022-02-16 Governor's recommendation adopted
- 2022-02-16 Reenrolled
- 2022-02-16 Reenrolled bill text (SB739ER2)
- 2022-02-16 Impact statement from DPB (SB739ER)
- 2022-02-16 Signed by President as reenrolled
- 2022-02-16 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 2022-02-16 Enacted, Chapter 2 (effective 2/16/22)
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3c3c06e-cb19-438f-b105-7df96d090cee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).