Fabio
123 lines
9.0 KiB
Markdown
123 lines
9.0 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Public schools; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection."
|
||
description: "Public schools; interscholastic sports and athletics; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection; development and implementation. Requires the Board of Education to develop, biennially review and update as necessary, and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies relating to extreme heat safety and protection for student-athletes. The bill requires each school board to develop and update, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Board of Education, policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection that (i) are consistent with any heat guidelines based on Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) levels developed by an organization or entity whose purpose it is to regulate or govern interscholastic athletics programs in the Commonwealth; (ii) establish tiered heat-acclimatization and modification procedures for outdoor athletics practices or games based on the WBGT levels to reduce the risks associated with extreme heat faced by student-athletes; (iii) require student-athletes to be given unhindered access to hydration at all times; (iv) include procedures relating to preventing, recognizing, and addressing heat-related illnesses; and (v) establish a process for reporting and investigating any instance in which a student-athlete experiences a heat-related illness requiring emergency medical treatment or resulting in death. This bill is identical to SB 1104."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2025"
|
||
identifier: "HB 1663"
|
||
citation: "Virginia HB 1663 (2025)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Jones"]
|
||
version_count: 5
|
||
action_count: 36
|
||
vote_count: 10
|
||
first_action: "2025-01-03"
|
||
last_action: "2025-03-24"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/382a6fc2-9bfb-46ae-ba07-3e14354b3179"
|
||
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1663"
|
||
source_hash: "4bbffaaf91256ff9c6ba4f39a3b11ea64cd71e3325652487ff39e8540d643614"
|
||
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 HB 1663 (2025) — Public schools; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection.
|
||
|
||
Public schools; interscholastic sports and athletics; guidelines and policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection; development and implementation. Requires the Board of Education to develop, biennially review and update as necessary, and distribute to each local school division guidelines on policies relating to extreme heat safety and protection for student-athletes. The bill requires each school board to develop and update, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Board of Education, policies on student-athlete extreme heat safety and protection that (i) are consistent with any heat guidelines based on Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) levels developed by an organization or entity whose purpose it is to regulate or govern interscholastic athletics programs in the Commonwealth; (ii) establish tiered heat-acclimatization and modification procedures for outdoor athletics practices or games based on the WBGT levels to reduce the risks associated with extreme heat faced by student-athletes; (iii) require student-athletes to be given unhindered access to hydration at all times; (iv) include procedures relating to preventing, recognizing, and addressing heat-related illnesses; and (v) establish a process for reporting and investigating any instance in which a student-athlete experiences a heat-related illness requiring emergency medical treatment or resulting in death. This bill is identical to SB 1104.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012519.PDF)
|
||
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1076891.PDF)
|
||
3. **Education and Health Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1051686.PDF)
|
||
4. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052246.PDF)
|
||
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064279.PDF)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- Read third time and passed House (83-Y 16-N) — **83–16** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reported from Education and rereferred to Appropriations (16-Y 5-N) — **16–5** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (79-Y 17-N) — **79–17** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Passed Senate with substitute (23-Y 17-N) — **23–17** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — **9–6** (pass) · upper
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Michael J. Jones — primary (person)
|
||
- Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- David Owen — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101432D `filing, introduction`
|
||
- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-01-10** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-01-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2025-01-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1663)
|
||
- **2025-01-15** Reported from Education and referred to Appropriations (16-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2025-01-15** Assigned Approps sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2025-01-22** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2025-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2025-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
|
||
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed House (83-Y 16-N) `passage, reading-3`
|
||
- **2025-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
|
||
- **2025-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2025-02-13** Committee substitute printed 25106885D-S1 `substitution`
|
||
- **2025-02-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1663)
|
||
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
|
||
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
|
||
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2025-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
|
||
- **2025-02-18** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
|
||
- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
|
||
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate with substitute (23-Y 17-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2025-02-19** Senate substitute agreed to by House (79-Y 17-N) `substitution`
|
||
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
|
||
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1663ER) `passage`
|
||
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
|
||
- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1663)
|
||
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
|
||
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
|
||
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
|
||
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 478 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478)
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/382a6fc2-9bfb-46ae-ba07-3e14354b3179`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|