republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1924.md

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Bill	School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals.	School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals; certain criminal convictions. Prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any felony crime of violence as defined in the bill or any offense involving a child. Current law prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any violent felony set forth in a certain statutory definition of "barrier crime" or any offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse, or rape of a child, or the solicitation of any such offense.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1924	Virginia HB 1924 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jeion A. Ward	7	40	9	2025-01-06	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/a32e5b00-5074-44af-a428-bc9bf2054d77	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1924	3fa2542e87d4d2225379df508fb2217a4e0dd88682e137a7909a870cf62ffd90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1924 (2025) — School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals.

School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals; certain criminal convictions. Prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any felony crime of violence as defined in the bill or any offense involving a child. Current law prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any violent felony set forth in a certain statutory definition of "barrier crime" or any offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse, or rape of a child, or the solicitation of any such offense.

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. Governor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
6. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 4-N) — 17–4 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) — 25–15 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (92-Y 2-N) — 92–2 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (71-Y 28-N) — 71–28 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) — 9–6 (pass) · upper
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeion A. Ward — primary (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101860D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-18 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-22 Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-22 Committee substitute printed 25105422D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1924)
• 2025-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Education Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed House (71-Y 28-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 (9-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 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 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1924ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1924)
• 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 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB1924H2)
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (92-Y 2-N)
• 2025-04-02 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled bill text (HB1924ER2) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Enacted, Chapter 642 (Effective 07/01/25) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a32e5b00-5074-44af-a428-bc9bf2054d77. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).