republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2720.md

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Bill	Local school divisions, certain; flexibility relating to student transportation, sunset.	School boards; transportation alternatives; two-year pilot in small school divisions. Permits certain school boards to pursue certain student transportation alternatives for the next two school years and requires such school boards to report certain data on the implementation of such initiatives. The bill sets forth certain parameters and requirements for any student transportation alternatives pursued by a school board pursuant to the bill, including a requirement that any entity with which a school board contracts or that any school board utilizes for the purpose of providing any transportation alternative or supplementing any traditional transportation services meet and comply with any state and federal laws and regulations applicable to traditional transportation services, including (i) school bus operator training, hiring, and employment requirements; (ii) minimum insurance coverage requirements for any vehicles provided or utilized for such purposes; and (iii) requirements relating to liability of the school board in the event of any accident, injury, or property damage resulting from the operation of any vehicles provided or utilized for such purposes. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Education to exclude from the re-benchmarking process any additional expenditures relating to school divisions that implement the pilot program pursuant to the bill. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2720	Virginia HB 2720 (2025)	bill		enacted	Terry L. Austin	7	38	8	2025-01-17	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/3abd8a9e-890c-4858-bb2b-aa3d1b789a00	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2720	3d4dd38a2b21821ffa217fb48c63eaae1a406eef7c184d59f17d345da8e55f49	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2720 (2025) — Local school divisions, certain; flexibility relating to student transportation, sunset.

School boards; transportation alternatives; two-year pilot in small school divisions. Permits certain school boards to pursue certain student transportation alternatives for the next two school years and requires such school boards to report certain data on the implementation of such initiatives. The bill sets forth certain parameters and requirements for any student transportation alternatives pursued by a school board pursuant to the bill, including a requirement that any entity with which a school board contracts or that any school board utilizes for the purpose of providing any transportation alternative or supplementing any traditional transportation services meet and comply with any state and federal laws and regulations applicable to traditional transportation services, including (i) school bus operator training, hiring, and employment requirements; (ii) minimum insurance coverage requirements for any vehicles provided or utilized for such purposes; and (iii) requirements relating to liability of the school board in the event of any accident, injury, or property damage resulting from the operation of any vehicles provided or utilized for such purposes. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Education to exclude from the re-benchmarking process any additional expenditures relating to school divisions that implement the pilot program pursuant to the bill. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027.

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. Finance and Appropriations Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. K-12 Subcommittee Substitute Offered (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 2-N 3-A) — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 3-N) — 36–3 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 25101000D introduction
• 2025-01-17 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2720)
• 2025-01-23 Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106166D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2720)
• 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 (99-Y 0-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 and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 2-N 3-A) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-18 Committee substitute printed 25107616D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2720)
• 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 (36-Y 3-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2720ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2720)
• 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 312 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3abd8a9e-890c-4858-bb2b-aa3d1b789a00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).