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type: "Bill"
title: "High school students; academic credit for certain work experience and fine arts programs."
description: "High school students; academic credit for certain work experience and fine arts programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1277"
citation: "Virginia SB 1277 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunnavant"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ec8c6ee-03f1-462f-82e4-23a2b30955b7"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1277"
source_hash: "348d03d04d972c080e1c0c45b65f25a8bf318e65fb4edd4ea713dcfac35a9e17"
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 1277 (2023) — High school students; academic credit for certain work experience and fine arts programs.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0145** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0145)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105761D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1277S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101948D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1277)
4. **SB1277ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1277ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dunnavant — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101948D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (SB1277)
- **2023-02-02** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-02** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Committee substitute printed 23105761D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB1277S1)
- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 23105761D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1277S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-15** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1277ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (SB1277ER)
- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 145 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0145)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ec8c6ee-03f1-462f-82e4-23a2b30955b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).