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type: "Bill"
title: "Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers."
description: "Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; exclusions. Excludes from the definition of \"publicly funded provider\" for the purpose of provisions of law relating to early childhood care and education any program for which the sole source of public funding is financial assistance for military child care pursuant to relevant federal law and that is accredited by a U.S. Department of Defense-approved national accrediting body."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1685"
citation: "Virginia HB 1685 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Briana D. Sewell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-03"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c5615a9-7899-4d51-b6bd-035d899d1229"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1685"
source_hash: "29c168f9661a76e4549f4877e5b541a0d522fdb85f6bf50eef22b5c4195204e3"
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 1685 (2025) — Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers.
Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; exclusions. Excludes from the definition of "publicly funded provider" for the purpose of provisions of law relating to early childhood care and education any program for which the sole source of public funding is financial assistance for military child care pursuant to relevant federal law and that is accredited by a U.S. Department of Defense-approved national accrediting body.
## 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/1012619.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071988.PDF)
3. **Education Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024783.HTML)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1033539.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060997.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Briana D. Sewell — primary (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101054D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned Educ sub: Early Childhood `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-23** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1685)
- **2025-01-29** Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Education Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-02-03** Printed as engrossed 25101054D-E
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1685)
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1685ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1685)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **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`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 187 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c5615a9-7899-4d51-b6bd-035d899d1229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).