republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2618.md

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Bill	Public school buildings; indoor air quality, inspection and evaluation.	Public school buildings; indoor air quality; inspection and evaluation. Establishes several enumerated requirements for local school divisions to ensure indoor air quality in each public school building in the local school division, including providing for an inspection and evaluation program at least once every two years and an industry-recognized uniform inspection and evaluation at least once every four years. This bill is identical to SB 1413.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2618	Virginia HB 2618 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dan I. Helmer	7	47	10	2025-01-13	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/f7513cbf-8c16-46e6-a2bc-cadbb8e9ece1	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2618	cfeb9bf0564c024e2928bda359a7ab622656edddfaffdf02b4a41f0afa339d37	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2618 (2025) — Public school buildings; indoor air quality, inspection and evaluation.

Public school buildings; indoor air quality; inspection and evaluation. Establishes several enumerated requirements for local school divisions to ensure indoor air quality in each public school building in the local school division, including providing for an inspection and evaluation program at least once every two years and an industry-recognized uniform inspection and evaluation at least once every four years. This bill is identical to SB 1413.

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. Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
6. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (56-Y 43-N) — 56–43 (pass) · lower
• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 3-N) — 91–3 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (57-Y 40-N) — 57–40 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 5-N) — 9–5 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dan I. Helmer — primary (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Presented and ordered printed 25104250D introduction
• 2025-01-13 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2618)
• 2025-01-21 Impact statement from CLG (HB2618)
• 2025-01-24 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Education with substitute (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25105711D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2618)
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Education Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (56-Y 43-N) passage, reading-3
• 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 substitute (9-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107041D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2618)
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-19 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-19 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-19 Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (57-Y 40-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2618ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2618)
• 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 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (91-Y 3-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 (HB2618ER2) 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 668 (Effective 07/01/25) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7513cbf-8c16-46e6-a2bc-cadbb8e9ece1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).