republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-443.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; transfer & management of scholastic records, disclosure of info. in court notices."
description: "Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the disposition in a delinquency case concerning a student who is not enrolled in such school division, forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division where such student is enrolled or where such student intends to enroll, as evidenced by the receipt of a request from the other school division for such student's scholastic records. Current law only permits the superintendent of any such school division to forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division in which the student is currently enrolled. The bill also requires a copy of the complete student disciplinary records of any student transferring from one school division to another to be transferred to the school division to which such student is transferring, upon request from such school division. This bill is identical to HB 1317."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 443"
citation: "Virginia SB 443 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tara A. Durant"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a459b1b7-c09d-4f2e-8ea6-d1e3baa33be0"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB443"
source_hash: "4f3a49edf2089e6953c9a7282b9caaf509fd2f8c20e10745b1d21443e3eecc52"
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 443 (2024) — Public schools; transfer & management of scholastic records, disclosure of info. in court notices.

Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the disposition in a delinquency case concerning a student who is not enrolled in such school division, forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division where such student is enrolled or where such student intends to enroll, as evidenced by the receipt of a request from the other school division for such student's scholastic records. Current law only permits the superintendent of any such school division to forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division in which the student is currently enrolled. The bill also requires a copy of the complete student disciplinary records of any student transferring from one school division to another to be transferred to the school division to which such student is transferring, upon request from such school division. This bill is identical to HB 1317.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0008** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0008)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103959D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB443)
3. **SB443ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB443ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 7-N) — **32–7** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tara A. Durant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103959D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB443)
- **2024-01-24** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 7-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`
- **2024-02-14** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-19** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB443ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB443ER)
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 8 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a459b1b7-c09d-4f2e-8ea6-d1e3baa33be0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).