republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2590.md

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Bill	Virginia STEP Grant Program; established.	Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program for the purpose of facilitating opportunities for any student enrolled in the eleventh or twelfth grade at a public high school in the Commonwealth or enrolled at a comprehensive community college or historically black college or university in the Commonwealth who enters into an agreement with an entity located in the relevant local school division or region that has a procurement contract with the federal government whereby such entity agrees to provide assistance to the student to obtain, prior to graduation, any federal security clearance at the public trust or national security level and any other education, training, or credential that is necessary for the student to be prepared for employment with such entity upon graduation in exchange for a commitment from the student to accept and remain in such an employment position for an agreed-upon period of time after graduation.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2590	Virginia HB 2590 (2025)	bill		enacted	Joshua G. Cole	5	37	9	2025-01-13	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/25687a20-c554-4c7f-b9e3-9f0c02673db8	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2590	f98db176e38c55aae69010bf6439aa95167f0c6d86ad9ccfae07f3052c11e1cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2590 (2025) — Virginia STEP Grant Program; established.

Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Virginia Student Training Employment Pipeline for U.S. Procurement (STEP UP) Program for the purpose of facilitating opportunities for any student enrolled in the eleventh or twelfth grade at a public high school in the Commonwealth or enrolled at a comprehensive community college or historically black college or university in the Commonwealth who enters into an agreement with an entity located in the relevant local school division or region that has a procurement contract with the federal government whereby such entity agrees to provide assistance to the student to obtain, prior to graduation, any federal security clearance at the public trust or national security level and any other education, training, or credential that is necessary for the student to be prepared for employment with such entity upon graduation in exchange for a commitment from the student to accept and remain in such an employment position for an agreed-upon period of time after graduation.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 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 0-N 1-A) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (15-Y 7-N) — 15–7 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (79-Y 20-N) — 79–20 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) — 36–3 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joshua G. Cole — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Briana D. Sewell — cosponsor (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Hillary Pugh Kent — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Paul V. Milde — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101044D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-13 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 and referred to Appropriations (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-22 Reported from Education with substitute and referred to Appropriations (15-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-22 Committee substitute printed 25104896D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-22 Assigned Approps sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-27 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Committee substitute printed 25105979D-H2 substitution
• 2025-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Education Substitute rejected
• 2025-01-31 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (79-Y 20-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2590)
• 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-04 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 and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 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 Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2590ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2590)
• 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 288 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25687a20-c554-4c7f-b9e3-9f0c02673db8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).