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Bill Teachers; certain individuals to be licensed with an endorsement in special ed. early childhood. Certain individuals to be deemed licensed as teachers with an endorsement in special education early childhood (birthage five years). Provides that any individual who has been employed in the Commonwealth as a preschool special education teacher licensed with an endorsement in special education - general curriculum K-12 for at least 15 school years shall be deemed licensed as a teacher with an endorsement in special education early childhood (birthage five years) upon the recommendation of the division superintendent in the local school division in which such individual is employed to the Department of Education that such teacher is well-qualified to continue to teach preschool special education in such school division. The bill contains an emergency clause. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 2265 Virginia HB 2265 (2025)
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Virginia HB 2265 (2025) — Teachers; certain individuals to be licensed with an endorsement in special ed. early childhood.

Certain individuals to be deemed licensed as teachers with an endorsement in special education early childhood (birthage five years). Provides that any individual who has been employed in the Commonwealth as a preschool special education teacher licensed with an endorsement in special education - general curriculum K-12 for at least 15 school years shall be deemed licensed as a teacher with an endorsement in special education early childhood (birthage five years) upon the recommendation of the division superintendent in the local school division in which such individual is employed to the Department of Education that such teacher is well-qualified to continue to teach preschool special education in such school division. The bill contains an emergency clause.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 990 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; Offered 01-08-2025 25104343D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2025-01-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2265)
  • 2025-01-18 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
  • 2025-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-22 Reported from Education (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 (99-Y 0-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 (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 (HB2265ER) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2265)
  • 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 257 (Effective 03/21/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbfc8957-1508-418a-878d-b852692e0355. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).