republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-599.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 boards; unexpended local funds, capital reserve fund permitted.	School boards; unexpended local funds; capitalreserve fund permitted. Permits any school board, with the concurrenceof the local governing body, to establish a capital reserve fundas a savings account into which it exclusively deposits the localoperating funds that remain unexpended at the end of the year forfuture school division capital expenditures at no additional costto local taxpayers, subject to certain conditions enumerated in thebill.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 599	Virginia HB 599 (2024)	bill		enacted	Shelly A. Simonds	3	26	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/44c987ce-4153-4dd7-a510-9eed57c17d0f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB599	ff25e4d52148eea0ccfa3d11249308dc001c5aaf2bc0fdd1bc1d775f4e3463bb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 599 (2024) — School boards; unexpended local funds, capital reserve fund permitted.

School boards; unexpended local funds; capitalreserve fund permitted. Permits any school board, with the concurrenceof the local governing body, to establish a capital reserve fundas a savings account into which it exclusively deposits the localoperating funds that remain unexpended at the end of the year forfuture school division capital expenditures at no additional costto local taxpayers, subject to certain conditions enumerated in thebill.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0294 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB599ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102222D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102222D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB599)
• 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 (HB599ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB599ER)
• 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
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 294 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44c987ce-4153-4dd7-a510-9eed57c17d0f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).