republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2226.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Noncustodial parent; disclosure of student address.	Right of foster parents to prohibit disclosure of student address to parents; parental notification. Requires (i) notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, upon written request of the foster parent of an enrolled student, a school board employee to redact the address of the foster parent prior to providing such student's parent any record otherwise containing such address and (ii) at the time a child is placed in foster care, each local department of social services to, if applicable, notify the foster parents of their right to make a written request pursuant to clause (i).	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2226	Virginia HB 2226 (2025)	bill		enacted	Mike A. Cherry	7	35	9	2025-01-07	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/c24d2d50-d895-4378-b255-da862636f41c	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2226	422db345f75cddef8d68c2fee642977da797d525feca3089f7bd4083c5cb9f59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2226 (2025) — Noncustodial parent; disclosure of student address.

Right of foster parents to prohibit disclosure of student address to parents; parental notification. Requires (i) notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, upon written request of the foster parent of an enrolled student, a school board employee to redact the address of the foster parent prior to providing such student's parent any record otherwise containing such address and (ii) at the time a child is placed in foster care, each local department of social services to, if applicable, notify the foster parents of their right to make a written request pursuant to clause (i).

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. Education and Health Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. HED Sub: K-12 Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mike A. Cherry — primary (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101144D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25105771D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Education Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 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 with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107095D-S1 substitution
• 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 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 (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2226ER) passage
• 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
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 164 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c24d2d50-d895-4378-b255-da862636f41c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).