republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-937.md

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Bill	Innovative alternative school transportation; school boards to implement low/no-cost alternatives.	School boards; state funding for public education;student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses.Provides that no school board that implements innovative low-costor no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from schoolon school buses, including organizing or otherwise facilitating,encouraging, or supporting bike buses whereby groups of studentsride bicycles to and from school, shall be penalized in the calculationof the prevailing costs of student transportation for the purposeof providing state funding to support the cost of public education.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 937	Virginia HB 937 (2024)	bill		enacted	Destiny LeVere Bolling	4	28	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/e0664e7b-3df1-4dbb-a708-a12a6e13d7d9	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB937	ccaf48159dae31e734bc8fbdabd4abe5197545d8190bc3a56e6225b1c60a40fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 937 (2024) — Innovative alternative school transportation; school boards to implement low/no-cost alternatives.

School boards; state funding for public education;student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses.Provides that no school board that implements innovative low-costor no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from schoolon school buses, including organizing or otherwise facilitating,encouraging, or supporting bike buses whereby groups of studentsride bicycles to and from school, shall be penalized in the calculationof the prevailing costs of student transportation for the purposeof providing state funding to support the cost of public education.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0535 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106451D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB937ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102973D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Destiny LeVere Bolling — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102973D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute printed 24106451D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB937H1)
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24106451D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB937H1 substitution
• 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 Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB937ER) passage
• 2024-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB937ER)
• 2024-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 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
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 535 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e0664e7b-3df1-4dbb-a708-a12a6e13d7d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).