republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2601.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	Teachers; daily student attendance records.	Public schools; record of student attendance. Requires a teacher in every public school in the Commonwealth to keep an accurate daily record of attendance of all children, both (i) at the beginning of the school day and (ii) if applicable, for each class period. Current law requires such a daily record of attendance but is silent on records of attendance for each class period.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2601	Virginia HB 2601 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jackie H. Glass	9	40	10	2025-01-13	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/0bc48aa7-9de2-438d-bfb5-1ec94366077d	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2601	fe9adb2bc93e692909bd87838c49d2d04f6c7eac858fea5009fc1771ccd3962e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2601 (2025) — Teachers; daily student attendance records.

Public schools; record of student attendance. Requires a teacher in every public school in the Commonwealth to keep an accurate daily record of attendance of all children, both (i) at the beginning of the school day and (ii) if applicable, for each class period. Current law requires such a daily record of attendance but is silent on records of attendance for each class period.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Education and Health Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Education and Health Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 3-N) — 4–3 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (56-Y 41-N) — 56–41 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate amendment agreed to by House — 57–40 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jackie H. Glass — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103035D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-13 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-01-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2601)
• 2025-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (5-Y 3-N) substitution
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106064D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Education with substitute and referred to Appropriations (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Assigned Approps sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 3-N)
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Education Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute as amended substitution
• 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25106064D-EH1
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (56-Y 41-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2601)
• 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 amendment (14-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 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-02-18 Education and Health Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate amendment agreed to by House amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2601ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2601)
• 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 293 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bc48aa7-9de2-438d-bfb5-1ec94366077d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).