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Bill School boards/division superintendent; review of accessibility challenges in local school division. School boards or division superintendents; review accessibility challenges in the local school division; report. Requires each school board or division superintendent, in consultation with such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to review the extent to which (i) public elementary and secondary school buildings and grounds in the local school division present physical accessibility challenges and barriers for individuals with disabilities, including challenges and barriers that may prevent such individuals from fully participating in school activities; (ii) challenges in access to programming and supports exist for individuals with disabilities at public elementary and secondary schools in the local school division; (iii) such schools have begun or plan to address and eliminate all such challenges and barriers; and (iv) state agencies can assist such schools to address and eliminate all such challenges and barriers and fully comply with all applicable state and federal laws. The bill requires each school board or division superintendent to report the findings of such review and any associated recommendations to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education no later than November 1, 2025. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 2278 Virginia HB 2278 (2025)
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Virginia HB 2278 (2025) — School boards/division superintendent; review of accessibility challenges in local school division.

School boards or division superintendents; review accessibility challenges in the local school division; report. Requires each school board or division superintendent, in consultation with such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to review the extent to which (i) public elementary and secondary school buildings and grounds in the local school division present physical accessibility challenges and barriers for individuals with disabilities, including challenges and barriers that may prevent such individuals from fully participating in school activities; (ii) challenges in access to programming and supports exist for individuals with disabilities at public elementary and secondary schools in the local school division; (iii) such schools have begun or plan to address and eliminate all such challenges and barriers; and (iv) state agencies can assist such schools to address and eliminate all such challenges and barriers and fully comply with all applicable state and federal laws. The bill requires each school board or division superintendent to report the findings of such review and any associated recommendations to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education no later than November 1, 2025.

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. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
  4. Conference Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  5. Education Amendments (committee substitute) — source
  6. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  7. Finance and Appropriations Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  8. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Conference report agreed to by House (53-Y 42-N) — 53–42 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 1-N) — 6–1 (pass) · lower
  • Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 95-N) — 0–95 (fail) · lower
  • Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate with substitute (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education with amendment(s) (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N) — 53–46 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
  • Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
  • Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
  • Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
  • Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104281D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-08 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 amendment(s) (6-Y 1-N)
  • 2025-01-22 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-24 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-01-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2278)
  • 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-01-27 Education Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2025-01-27 Engrossed by House as amended
  • 2025-01-27 Printed as engrossed 25104281D-E
  • 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-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 and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-17 Committee substitute printed 25107615D-S1 substitution
  • 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-20 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2025-02-20 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with substitute (37-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2278)
  • 2025-02-20 Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 95-N)
  • 2025-02-20 Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) substitution
  • 2025-02-20 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
  • 2025-02-20 House acceded to request
  • 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2025-02-20 Delegates: Price, Cohen, Phillips
  • 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2025-02-20 Senators: Pekarsky, VanValkenburg, Head
  • 2025-02-22 Amended by conference committee
  • 2025-02-22 Conference substitute printed 25108007D-H1
  • 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (53-Y 42-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2278ER) 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
  • 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 566 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/866ebbb5-4b9f-48cf-9817-34ac6213024d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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