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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc.	Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution. This bill incorporates SB 71 and is identical to HB 48.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 46	Virginia SB 46 (2024)	bill		enacted	Schuyler T. VanValkenburg	4	31	5	2023-12-21	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/81b0ce72-50db-40fb-bd90-83524db599c7	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB46	2ee413cb97813a93634aca87c36f1e696f8045ba06ff6d67bee46c8588ee2f40	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 46 (2024) — Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc.

Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution. This bill incorporates SB 71 and is identical to HB 48.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0002 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105417D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101274D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB46ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (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

Sponsors

• Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — primary (person)
• Aaron R. Rouse — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101274D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-21 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-18 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-18 Committee substitute printed 24105417D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-18 Incorporates SB71 (McPike)
• 2024-01-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-22 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-01-22 Committee substitute agreed to 24105417D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-22 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB46S1 substitution
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB46S1)
• 2024-01-23 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
• 2024-02-14 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 (SB46ER) passage
• 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB46ER)
• 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 2 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81b0ce72-50db-40fb-bd90-83524db599c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).