republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-713.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	Higher educational institutions, public; campus safety and emergency preparedness training.	Institutions of higher education; campus safety and emergency preparedness training; first-year completion and biennial review. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring that a campus safety and emergency preparedness training program be provided to and completed by all first-year students by the last day of each student's first academic term and reviewed biennially by each returning student at such institution. The bill provides that such training program will focus on active shooter event preparedness and may be offered in any format and include any supplementary materials as the governing board of each such institution deems appropriate. Finally, the bill directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to encourage private institutions of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring a campus safety and emergency preparedness training program be provided to each first-year student by the last day of each student's first academic term and reviewed biennially by each returning student at such institution.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 713	Virginia HB 713 (2024)	bill		enacted	Luke E. Torian	4	31	5	2024-01-09	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/e7dae720-8d49-4172-ae1e-cbf91952eda7	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB713	aeeb9aabe814805c84750819e581b1692cbc46361ff54249b33a6f216dcafe3f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 713 (2024) — Higher educational institutions, public; campus safety and emergency preparedness training.

Institutions of higher education; campus safety and emergency preparedness training; first-year completion and biennial review. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring that a campus safety and emergency preparedness training program be provided to and completed by all first-year students by the last day of each student's first academic term and reviewed biennially by each returning student at such institution. The bill provides that such training program will focus on active shooter event preparedness and may be offered in any format and include any supplementary materials as the governing board of each such institution deems appropriate. Finally, the bill directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to encourage private institutions of higher education to develop and implement policies requiring a campus safety and emergency preparedness training program be provided to each first-year student by the last day of each student's first academic term and reviewed biennially by each returning student at such institution.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0204 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107101D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB713ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100533D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Luke E. Torian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100533D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB713)
• 2024-02-04 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-05 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-05 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute printed 24107101D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB713H1)
• 2024-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Committee substitute agreed to 24107101D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB713H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher 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 (HB713ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB713ER)
• 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 204 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7dae720-8d49-4172-ae1e-cbf91952eda7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).