republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-253.md

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Bill	School boards; enrolled students present at meetings, public comment or citizen participation.	School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school boardto permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondaryschool in the local school division who provides acceptable proofof identification, including any current student identification cardor other school document such as a report card or a personal schoolemail address, and who signs up at least 12 hours in advance of thescheduled start of a school board meeting or is physically presentat a school board meeting to submit oral comments during any publiccomment or citizen participation portion of such meeting.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 253	Virginia HB 253 (2024)	bill		enacted	Joshua G. Cole	4	38	7	2024-01-04	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e54f008c-7205-42a0-b0bb-aa8022627b52	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB253	3884b3690a48b825a535181f45c20a95d9bd5694a06be1902353edf518646bb7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 253 (2024) — School boards; enrolled students present at meetings, public comment or citizen participation.

School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school boardto permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondaryschool in the local school division who provides acceptable proofof identification, including any current student identification cardor other school document such as a report card or a personal schoolemail address, and who signs up at least 12 hours in advance of thescheduled start of a school board meeting or is physically presentat a school board meeting to submit oral comments during any publiccomment or citizen participation portion of such meeting.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0689 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB253ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101889D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24101889D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 45-N) — 53–45 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (56-Y 44-N) — 55–44 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with amendment(s) (13-Y 8-N) — 13–8 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Joshua G. Cole — primary (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101889D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-04 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Impact statement from DPB (HB253)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
• 2024-01-24 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (13-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-29 Engrossed by House as amended HB253E
• 2024-01-29 Printed as engrossed 24101889D-E
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed House (56-Y 44-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 VOTE: Passage (56-Y 44-N) passage
• 2024-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB253E)
• 2024-02-14 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-15 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-22 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-02-26 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-26 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Senate amendment agreed to by House (54-Y 45-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 45-N)
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB253ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB253ER)
• 2024-03-05 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 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
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 689 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e54f008c-7205-42a0-b0bb-aa8022627b52. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).