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| Bill | High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of elective course credits. | High school graduation requirements; satisfactionof certain course credits with workforce credentials; developmentand maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires theBoard of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia CommunityCollege System, to develop and maintain a current, comprehensive,and uniform list of industry-recognized workforce credentials thatstudents may take as a substitute for certain units of credit requiredfor graduation, including such credentials that are accepted as substitutesfor (i) laboratory science credits or (ii) electives credits. Thebill provides that such list uniformly applies across each localschool division and that each school board is required to accept as a substitute for a required credit any credential listed as anaccepted substitute for such required credit. The bill also requiresany College and Career Access Pathways Partnership entered into betweena school board and a comprehensive community college to specify,consistent with the list, industry-recognized credentials that areaccepted as substitutes for certain credits required for high schoolgraduation. Finally, the bill requires the Board, in establishinggraduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute (i)three standard units of credit and one verified credit in laboratoryscience or (ii) credits for electives for completion of any industry-approvedworkforce credential that is included on the list as an acceptedsubstitute for such credits. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2024 | SB 199 | Virginia SB 199 (2024) |
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Virginia SB 199 (2024) — High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of elective course credits.
High school graduation requirements; satisfactionof certain course credits with workforce credentials; developmentand maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires theBoard of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia CommunityCollege System, to develop and maintain a current, comprehensive,and uniform list of industry-recognized workforce credentials thatstudents may take as a substitute for certain units of credit requiredfor graduation, including such credentials that are accepted as substitutesfor (i) laboratory science credits or (ii) electives credits. Thebill provides that such list uniformly applies across each localschool division and that each school board is required to accept as a substitute for a required credit any credential listed as anaccepted substitute for such required credit. The bill also requiresany College and Career Access Pathways Partnership entered into betweena school board and a comprehensive community college to specify,consistent with the list, industry-recognized credentials that areaccepted as substitutes for certain credits required for high schoolgraduation. Finally, the bill requires the Board, in establishinggraduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute (i)three standard units of credit and one verified credit in laboratoryscience or (ii) credits for electives for completion of any industry-approvedworkforce credential that is included on the list as an acceptedsubstitute for such credits.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0666 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 24105573D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101786D (committee substitute) — source
- SB199ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- J.D. "Danny" Diggs — primary (person)
- Christie New Craig — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101786D
filing, introduction - 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2024-01-10 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2024-01-25 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2024-02-01 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2024-02-01 Committee substitute printed 24105573D-S1
substitution - 2024-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB199S1)
- 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2024-02-05 Read second time
reading-2 - 2024-02-05 Reading of substitute waived
- 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24105573D-S1
substitution - 2024-02-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB199S1
substitution - 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
- 2024-02-13 Read first time
reading-1 - 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2024-02-26 Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2024-02-28 Read second time
reading-2 - 2024-02-29 Read third time
reading-3 - 2024-02-29 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2024-02-29 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2024-03-05 Enrolled
enrolled - 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB199ER)
passage - 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB199ER)
- 2024-03-05 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2024-03-07 Signed by President
passage - 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
enrolled - 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
executive-receipt - 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 666 (effective 7/1/24)
executive-signature - 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67fe771e-4010-4514-813e-4f556441d18d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).