republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-48.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	Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc.	Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution. This bill is identical to SB 46.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 48	Virginia HB 48 (2024)	bill		enacted	Dan I. Helmer	3	25	6	2023-12-21	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/fe7bae7b-87c7-4b2a-a694-73bdf3f096ce	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB48	40fdf38ead992c4db07a641573130c4d2a74503d11eab0152e8f202f4dd98b48	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 48 (2024) — Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc.

Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution. This bill is identical to SB 46.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0015 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB48ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104163D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dan I. Helmer — primary (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104163D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-21 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB48)
• 2024-01-24 Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB48ER) passage
• 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB48ER)
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 15 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe7bae7b-87c7-4b2a-a694-73bdf3f096ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).