republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-501.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	School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments.	School building evacuation plans, policies,and protocols; students with mobility impairments. Requires anydivisionwide or public elementary or secondary school-specific schoolbuilding evacuation plan, policy, or protocol to include provisionsthat seek to maximize the opportunity for students with mobilityimpairments to evacuate the school building alongside their non-mobility-impairedpeers.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 501	Virginia HB 501 (2024)	bill		enacted	Laura Jane Cohen	3	26	6	2024-01-08	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/d89d72c5-ce7a-45a6-9a20-48e09c7385f7	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB501	c5691649c3fde6ac50729857bedb8970210c0e742ad2577237cd4c9d6b79b32a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 501 (2024) — School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments.

School building evacuation plans, policies,and protocols; students with mobility impairments. Requires anydivisionwide or public elementary or secondary school-specific schoolbuilding evacuation plan, policy, or protocol to include provisionsthat seek to maximize the opportunity for students with mobilityimpairments to evacuate the school building alongside their non-mobility-impairedpeers.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0194 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB501ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101047D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Laura Jane Cohen — primary (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101047D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB501)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 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
• 2024-02-14 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health (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 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB501ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB501ER)
• 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 194 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d89d72c5-ce7a-45a6-9a20-48e09c7385f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).