republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-561.md

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Bill	Annual school safety audits; items to be reviewed.	Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety;school safety audit; requirements. Requires the Virginia Centerfor School and Campus Safety to include in the list of items to bereviewed and evaluated in school safety audits and each school boardto require all schools under its supervision to review and evaluatein their annual school safety audits information relating to thetype of school security technology utilized in each public schoolbuilding in the applicable school division, including informationrelating to the specific types of technology systems and the age of such systems.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 561	Virginia HB 561 (2024)	bill		enacted	Alex Q. Askew	4	36	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/9775d91f-58ca-4acb-9355-08eccd0a7163	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB561	b7a035736c2e8f2dbdedf21cafd2f6037fce4b85e11c6164afb413b59b4f27f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 561 (2024) — Annual school safety audits; items to be reviewed.

Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety;school safety audit; requirements. Requires the Virginia Centerfor School and Campus Safety to include in the list of items to bereviewed and evaluated in school safety audits and each school boardto require all schools under its supervision to review and evaluatein their annual school safety audits information relating to thetype of school security technology utilized in each public schoolbuilding in the applicable school division, including informationrelating to the specific types of technology systems and the age of such systems.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0429 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106804D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB561ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104960D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104960D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Impact statement from DPB (HB561)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned CT & I sub: Technology and Innovation referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Committee substitute printed 24106804D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB561H1)
• 2024-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 24106804D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB561H1 substitution
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB561ER) passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB561ER)
• 2024-03-08 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 429 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9775d91f-58ca-4acb-9355-08eccd0a7163. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).