republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1881.md

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Bill	Public elementary/secondary schools; enrollment of dependent student of active duty service members.	Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; dependent students of active duty service members; policies. Permits any school board to establish and implement policies providing for the enrollment of any student, upon request of such student's parent, (i) who does not reside within the applicable school division, (ii) whose parent is a full-time active duty member of the uniformed services of the United States and for whom the Commonwealth is the home of record, and (iii) who meets the other requirements set forth in the bill. The bill permits such policies to provide for the denial of any such enrollment request if the school board can demonstrate that it lacks the resources or capacity.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1881	Virginia HB 1881 (2025)	bill		enacted	Briana D. Sewell	4	30	7	2025-01-06	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/f0db8af4-0974-4bbf-8d93-189e9d374a38	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1881	d2d5ac69b8c1ea30fb21d07f460d8a42455e20aeea8f76edeb6f072b23135390	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1881 (2025) — Public elementary/secondary schools; enrollment of dependent student of active duty service members.

Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; dependent students of active duty service members; policies. Permits any school board to establish and implement policies providing for the enrollment of any student, upon request of such student's parent, (i) who does not reside within the applicable school division, (ii) whose parent is a full-time active duty member of the uniformed services of the United States and for whom the Commonwealth is the home of record, and (iii) who meets the other requirements set forth in the bill. The bill permits such policies to provide for the denial of any such enrollment request if the school board can demonstrate that it lacks the resources or capacity.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Briana D. Sewell — primary (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101051D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-15 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-15 Committee substitute printed 25105030D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-17 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-20 Education Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-20 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1881)
• 2025-01-21 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-22 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 (15-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 (HB1881ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1881)
• 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
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 389 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0db8af4-0974-4bbf-8d93-189e9d374a38. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).