republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-131.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Learning needs dashboard; Department of Education shall continue to maintain, sunset date.	Superintendent of Public Instruction; pandemicrecovery task force; report. Requires the Superintendent ofPublic Instruction to establish and appoint such members as he deems necessary or appropriate to a pandemic recovery task force (the taskforce) within the Department of Education, the purpose of which isto examine the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on publiceducation in the Commonwealth and to provide recommendations, guidance,and resources to each local school division in order to enable allenrolled students to thrive academically, socially, and emotionallyand to meet or exceed pre-pandemic levels on all relevant metricsof student achievement and well-being. The bill requires the taskforce to focus particularly on student learning loss, attendance,and mental health and on vulnerable populations of students and toannually submit a report of its findings and recommendations to theBoard, the Governor, the General Assembly, and each school boardno later than November 1.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 131	Virginia HB 131 (2024)	bill		enacted	Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler	4	30	6	2024-01-01	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/8fbaff8a-7a80-4365-9b8b-17f4844ff0c2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB131	21f48a4e6ecb08db15cb7ae1289457000e275678121e8e38571f6f708bb99db5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 131 (2024) — Learning needs dashboard; Department of Education shall continue to maintain, sunset date.

Superintendent of Public Instruction; pandemicrecovery task force; report. Requires the Superintendent ofPublic Instruction to establish and appoint such members as he deems necessary or appropriate to a pandemic recovery task force (the taskforce) within the Department of Education, the purpose of which isto examine the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on publiceducation in the Commonwealth and to provide recommendations, guidance,and resources to each local school division in order to enable allenrolled students to thrive academically, socially, and emotionallyand to meet or exceed pre-pandemic levels on all relevant metricsof student achievement and well-being. The bill requires the taskforce to focus particularly on student learning loss, attendance,and mental health and on vulnerable populations of students and toannually submit a report of its findings and recommendations to theBoard, the Governor, the General Assembly, and each school boardno later than November 1.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0173 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105560D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB131ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101748D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (95-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — primary (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101748D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-01 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-22 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-22 Committee substitute printed 24105560D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-25 Committee substitute agreed to 24105560D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-25 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB131H1 substitution
• 2024-01-26 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-26 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (95-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB131H1)
• 2024-02-14 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB131ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB131ER)
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0173)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8fbaff8a-7a80-4365-9b8b-17f4844ff0c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).