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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Innovative alternative school transportation; school boards to implement low/no-cost alternatives."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 937"
citation: "Virginia HB 937 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Destiny LeVere Bolling"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0664e7b-3df1-4dbb-a708-a12a6e13d7d9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB937"
source_hash: "ccaf48159dae31e734bc8fbdabd4abe5197545d8190bc3a56e6225b1c60a40fd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0535)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106451D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB937H1)
3. **HB937ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB937ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102973D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB937)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0664e7b-3df1-4dbb-a708-a12a6e13d7d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).