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Bill Teachers; changes to provisions relating to licensure and certification, reciprocity. Teachers; certain licenses and certificates. Makes several changes to provisions of law relating to the licensure and certification of teachers, including (i) establishing universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for certain licensed out-of-state teachers, regardless of the traditional or alternative nature of the education preparation programs that they completed; (ii) establishing and enumerating the criteria for a subject matter expert teaching certificate to provide high-quality teaching candidates who have relevant work experience or expertise in a content or subject matter area an accelerated path toward a renewable license; (iii) permitting the division superintendent rather than the Board of Education, as is current law, to issue a career and technical education teacher a provisional license to allow time for the teacher to attain the industry certification credential required by law; (iv) permitting any high school principal to waive, for any individual whom he seeks to employ as a career and technical education teacher and who is also seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license with an endorsement in the area of career and technical education, certain applicable licensure requirements; and (v) permitting any division superintendent to directly waive, rather than apply to the Department of Education for a biennial waiver as is required under current law, the teacher licensure requirements for any individual whom the local school board hires or seeks to hire to teach in a trade and industrial education program who has obtained or is working toward an industry credential relating to the program area and who has at least 4,000 hours of recent and relevant employment experience. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2024 SB 352 Virginia SB 352 (2024)
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Virginia SB 352 (2024) — Teachers; changes to provisions relating to licensure and certification, reciprocity.

Teachers; certain licenses and certificates. Makes several changes to provisions of law relating to the licensure and certification of teachers, including (i) establishing universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for certain licensed out-of-state teachers, regardless of the traditional or alternative nature of the education preparation programs that they completed; (ii) establishing and enumerating the criteria for a subject matter expert teaching certificate to provide high-quality teaching candidates who have relevant work experience or expertise in a content or subject matter area an accelerated path toward a renewable license; (iii) permitting the division superintendent rather than the Board of Education, as is current law, to issue a career and technical education teacher a provisional license to allow time for the teacher to attain the industry certification credential required by law; (iv) permitting any high school principal to waive, for any individual whom he seeks to employ as a career and technical education teacher and who is also seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license with an endorsement in the area of career and technical education, certain applicable licensure requirements; and (v) permitting any division superintendent to directly waive, rather than apply to the Department of Education for a biennial waiver as is required under current law, the teacher licensure requirements for any individual whom the local school board hires or seeks to hire to teach in a trade and industrial education program who has obtained or is working toward an industry credential relating to the program area and who has at least 4,000 hours of recent and relevant employment experience.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0672 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 24107468D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Committee substitute printed 24107850D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104685D (committee substitute) — source
  5. SB352ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
  • House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 0–39 (fail) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Mark J. Peake — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104685D filing, introduction
  • 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2024-01-30 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2024-02-01 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2024-02-02 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2024-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB352)
  • 2024-02-08 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2024-02-08 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-08 Committee substitute printed 24107468D-S1 substitution
  • 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB352S1)
  • 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-09 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2024-02-09 Committee substitute agreed to 24107468D-S1 substitution
  • 2024-02-09 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB352S1 substitution
  • 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-02-09 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
  • 2024-02-15 Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
  • 2024-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
  • 2024-02-21 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-21 Committee substitute printed 24107850D-H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB352H1)
  • 2024-02-23 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
  • 2024-02-26 Committee substitute agreed to 24107850D-H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-26 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB352H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-26 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2024-02-26 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2024-02-28 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
  • 2024-02-29 House insisted on substitute substitution
  • 2024-02-29 House requested conference committee referral-committee
  • 2024-03-04 Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-03-04 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2024-03-04 Senators: Peake, VanValkenburg, Hashmi
  • 2024-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2024-03-05 Delegates: Rasoul, Laufer, Scott, P.A.
  • 2024-03-09 Amended by conference committee
  • 2024-03-09 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2024-03-09 Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2024-03-09 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB352ER) 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 (SB352ER)
  • 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 672 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
  • 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd96f473-1d50-44d4-a619-fe5c122e4011. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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