republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-583.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	Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks.	Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the share of teachers that are provided each working day a lunch break of at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 583	Virginia HB 583 (2024)	bill		enacted	Shelly A. Simonds	4	34	7	2024-01-09	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c5711617-6772-4103-b69f-3f4e7a1b2552	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB583	5490a8c484f529de1a1dd9a0eccc29b955f5d9d07b4c8f89605a3a05249c0b81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 583 (2024) — Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks.

Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the share of teachers that are provided each working day a lunch break of at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0196 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107316D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB583ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102649D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) — 34–6 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) — 96–1 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) — 34–6 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102649D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB583)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Committee substitute printed 24107316D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 24107316D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB583H1 substitution
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-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
• 2024-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB583H1)
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-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 by for the day
• 2024-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Passed by temporarily
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) passage
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB583ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c5711617-6772-4103-b69f-3f4e7a1b2552. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).