republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-272.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public school funding; ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students."
description: "Public school staffing ratios; teachers; Englishlanguage learner students. Requires state funding to be providedpursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwideratios of English language learner students in average daily membershipto full-time equivalent teaching positions as follows: (i) for eachEnglish language learner identified as proficiency level one, oneposition per 25 students; (ii) for each English language learner identified as proficiency level two, one position per 30 students;(iii) for each English language learner identified as proficiencylevel three, one position per 40 students; and (iv) for all otherEnglish language learners, one position per 50 students. Current law requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriationact to support one such teaching position per 50 English languagelearner students, regardless of the identified English proficiencylevel of such students."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 272"
citation: "Virginia SB 272 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ghazala F. Hashmi"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bbd368f-78ee-4825-a99f-3777a580f552"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB272"
source_hash: "d53afb315663ac955c6e528226610e582623681b9e9ec4ec9fd2bfc69ffd1e6b"
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 SB 272 (2024) — Public school funding; ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students.

Public school staffing ratios; teachers; Englishlanguage learner students. Requires state funding to be providedpursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwideratios of English language learner students in average daily membershipto full-time equivalent teaching positions as follows: (i) for eachEnglish language learner identified as proficiency level one, oneposition per 25 students; (ii) for each English language learner identified as proficiency level two, one position per 30 students;(iii) for each English language learner identified as proficiencylevel three, one position per 40 students; and (iv) for all otherEnglish language learners, one position per 50 students. Current law requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriationact to support one such teaching position per 50 English languagelearner students, regardless of the identified English proficiencylevel of such students.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0766** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0766)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24107565D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB272S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 24108216D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB272H1)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104762D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB272)
5. **SB272ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB272ER)

## Votes

- House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — **0–39** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (57-Y 43-N) — **56–43** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (59-Y 40-N) — **58–40** (pass) · lower
- Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 7-N) — **14–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104762D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB272)
- **2024-02-01** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** Committee substitute printed 24107565D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 24107565D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB272S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-12** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Committee substitute printed 24108216D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB272H1)
- **2024-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Committee substitute agreed to 24108216D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-29** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB272H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-29** Passed House with substitute (57-Y 43-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** VOTE: Passage (57-Y 43-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- **2024-03-05** House insisted on substitute `substitution`
- **2024-03-05** House requested conference committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-06** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2024-03-06** Senators: Hashmi, Boysko, Craig
- **2024-03-07** Conferees appointed by House
- **2024-03-07** Delegates: Askew, Convirs-Fowler, Tata
- **2024-03-08** Amended by conference committee
- **2024-03-09** Conference report agreed to by House (59-Y 40-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-09** VOTE: Adoption (59-Y 40-N)
- **2024-03-09** Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB272ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB272ER)
- **2024-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 766 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4bbd368f-78ee-4825-a99f-3777a580f552`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).