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type: "Bill"
title: "High School diploma seal of biliteracy; designation as high-demand industry workforce credential."
description: "High school diploma seal of biliteracy; designation as high-demand industry workforce credential for certain purposes. Requires the Board of Education to include on its list of industry workforce credentials its diploma seal of biliteracy and to consider such seal to be a high-demand industry workforce credential for the purpose of satisfying graduation requirements and determining and calculating high school student readiness in its school accountability system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2360"
citation: "Virginia HB 2360 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony O. Wilt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bdcb8a0-507a-4299-a36b-4514544d6002"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2360"
source_hash: "4c61227ab3e918345aa4acdf8f6756ccccee98abf87b976c8d728051635bcd5f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 2360 (2025) — High School diploma seal of biliteracy; designation as high-demand industry workforce credential.
High school diploma seal of biliteracy; designation as high-demand industry workforce credential for certain purposes. Requires the Board of Education to include on its list of industry workforce credentials its diploma seal of biliteracy and to consider such seal to be a high-demand industry workforce credential for the purpose of satisfying graduation requirements and determining and calculating high school student readiness in its school accountability system.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1016075.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1079263.PDF)
3. **Governor's Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1073817.HTML)
4. **Reenrolled** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074978.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061510.PDF)
## Votes
- 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
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102535D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** 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)
- **2025-01-22** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2360)
- **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 (HB2360ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2360)
- **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`
- **2025-04-02** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-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 (HB2360ER2) `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 662 (Effective 07/01/25) `became-law`
- **2025-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bdcb8a0-507a-4299-a36b-4514544d6002`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).