republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-66.md

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Bill	Public schools; fire drills, timing and frequency.	Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Requires the first of the two fire drills required during the first20 days of each public school session to be conducted during thefirst 10 days of such school session. The bill also requires everypublic school to hold additional fire drills during the remainderof such school session as required by the Statewide Fire PreventionCode, which currently requires such additional fire drills to be conducted on a monthly basis. Current law requires at least two additionalfire drills to be conducted during the remainder of the public schoolsession after the two fire drills required during the first 20 daysof each such school session.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 66	Virginia HB 66 (2024)	bill		enacted	Ellen H. Campbell	5	50	10	2023-12-22	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/2764f997-d92c-4527-8afb-25e947a64f43	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB66	7dfbcc12a0f1a81327bea5d7ed274fe3e43bf65d961c6de5300343435cba7809	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 66 (2024) — Public schools; fire drills, timing and frequency.

Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Requires the first of the two fire drills required during the first20 days of each public school session to be conducted during thefirst 10 days of such school session. The bill also requires everypublic school to hold additional fire drills during the remainderof such school session as required by the Statewide Fire PreventionCode, which currently requires such additional fire drills to be conducted on a monthly basis. Current law requires at least two additionalfire drills to be conducted during the remainder of the public schoolsession after the two fire drills required during the first 20 daysof each such school session.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0432 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105455D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 24108644D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB66ER (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100752D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 99-N) — 1–98 (fail) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ellen H. Campbell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100752D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-22 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB66)
• 2024-01-15 Assigned Education sub: K-12 referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-17 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-17 Committee substitute printed 24105455D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB66H1)
• 2024-01-19 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-22 Committee substitute agreed to 24105455D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB66H1 substitution
• 2024-01-23 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-23 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-24 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-29 Committee substitute printed 24108644D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-03-04 Committee substitute agreed to 24108644D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB66S1 substitution
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Senate substitute rejected by House 24108644D-S1 (1-Y 99-N)
• 2024-03-05 VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 99-N)
• 2024-03-06 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-03-06 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2024-03-07 House acceded to request
• 2024-03-07 Conferees appointed by House
• 2024-03-07 Delegates: Clark, Convirs-Fowler, Campbell
• 2024-03-07 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2024-03-07 Senators: VanValkenburg, Bagby, Durant
• 2024-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB66S1)
• 2024-03-08 Amended by conference committee
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB66ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB66ER)
• 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
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 432 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2764f997-d92c-4527-8afb-25e947a64f43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).