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type: "Bill"
title: "School Construction Fund and Program; definitions."
description: "Virginia Public School Construction Grants Programand Fund; career and technical education programs eligible. Directsthe Board of Education to revise the guidelines on the administrationof the Virginia Public School Construction Grants Program to explicitlyclarify that grants provided to a qualifying school division underthe Program may be used for construction, additions, infrastructure,site acquisition, and renovations for buildings and facilities usedfor career and technical education programs provided at a regionalcomprehensive school. The bill also provides that \"public schoolbuildings and facilities\" or \"public school buildings\" for the purposesof the Program includes any school building or facility used forcareer and technical education programs provided at any regionalcomprehensive school."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 462"
citation: "Virginia HB 462 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris S. Runion"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf376c9e-df24-4523-ae37-183f16bc72ce"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB462"
source_hash: "8b9ac13ede629a6a93c5d2e5baa65328b52d05a9fa10e6e3a72148970f367680"
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 HB 462 (2024) — School Construction Fund and Program; definitions.
Virginia Public School Construction Grants Programand Fund; career and technical education programs eligible. Directsthe Board of Education to revise the guidelines on the administrationof the Virginia Public School Construction Grants Program to explicitlyclarify that grants provided to a qualifying school division underthe Program may be used for construction, additions, infrastructure,site acquisition, and renovations for buildings and facilities usedfor career and technical education programs provided at a regionalcomprehensive school. The bill also provides that "public schoolbuildings and facilities" or "public school buildings" for the purposesof the Program includes any school building or facility used forcareer and technical education programs provided at any regionalcomprehensive school.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0388** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0388)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106569D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB462H1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 24107759D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB462S1)
4. **HB462ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB462ER)
5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103058D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB462)
## Votes
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chris S. Runion — primary (person)
- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103058D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-01-30** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-31** Committee substitute printed 24106569D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB462H1)
- **2024-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** Committee substitute agreed to 24106569D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-05** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB462H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-15** Committee substitute printed 24107759D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-15** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB462S1)
- **2024-02-21** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-02-23** Committee substitute agreed to 24107759D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-23** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB462S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-23** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Senate substitute agreed to by House 24107759D-S1 (97-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-02-27** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB462ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB462ER)
- **2024-03-04** 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`
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 388 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf376c9e-df24-4523-ae37-183f16bc72ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).