republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-702.md

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Bill	Early childhood care and education; exemption from licensure.	Early childhood care and education; publiclyfunded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any childcare subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesfrom the federal funds that would otherwise render a child day programas a "publicly funded provider," as that term is defined and usedin relevant law relating to early childhood care and education. Thebill also exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of PublicInstruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependentchildren of military personnel and (ii) (a) is located on a militarybase or federal property or (b) is certified as a family child careprovider by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and provides that any branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesor its agent, including an installation commander of a military baseon which a child day program is located, may assume responsibilityfor approving or determining which children may be served by theprogram that is so exempted from licensure.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 702	Virginia SB 702 (2024)	bill		enacted	Suhas Subramanyam	4	36	7	2024-01-19	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/da8c528b-0f2e-46c3-9865-4a9a07873929	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB702	6a199a60ca5f6949c6ed80330863844a59fddf6ef05853aaae4cc70d2eb82b8f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 702 (2024) — Early childhood care and education; exemption from licensure.

Early childhood care and education; publiclyfunded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any childcare subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesfrom the federal funds that would otherwise render a child day programas a "publicly funded provider," as that term is defined and usedin relevant law relating to early childhood care and education. Thebill also exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of PublicInstruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependentchildren of military personnel and (ii) (a) is located on a militarybase or federal property or (b) is certified as a family child careprovider by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and provides that any branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesor its agent, including an installation commander of a military baseon which a child day program is located, may assume responsibilityfor approving or determining which children may be served by theprogram that is so exempted from licensure.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0259 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106972D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24103968D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB702ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Suhas Subramanyam — primary (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Tara A. Durant — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19 Presented and ordered printed 24103968D introduction
• 2024-01-19 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB702)
• 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
• 2024-02-08 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-08 Committee substitute printed 24106972D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB702S1)
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-09 Committee substitute agreed to 24106972D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB702S1 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: Early Childhood referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 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 (SB702ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB702ER)
• 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
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 259 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da8c528b-0f2e-46c3-9865-4a9a07873929. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).