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Bill Public elementary & secondary school teachers; certain training activities, requirements, etc. Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that term is defined in the bill, more frequently than once within six months of employment with the applicable school board and once every five years thereafter, except in the case of certain training relating to secure mandatory test violations upon determination by the school board or division superintendent that additional training is necessary. The bill also provides that the total frequency and duration of non-academic training activities in which each such teacher is required to participate pursuant to state law or regulation or policy or regulation of the applicable school board shall not exceed 25 hours every five years. This bill is identical to HB 1626. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 SB 822 Virginia SB 822 (2025)
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Virginia SB 822 (2025) — Public elementary & secondary school teachers; certain training activities, requirements, etc.

Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that term is defined in the bill, more frequently than once within six months of employment with the applicable school board and once every five years thereafter, except in the case of certain training relating to secure mandatory test violations upon determination by the school board or division superintendent that additional training is necessary. The bill also provides that the total frequency and duration of non-academic training activities in which each such teacher is required to participate pursuant to state law or regulation or policy or regulation of the applicable school board shall not exceed 25 hours every five years. This bill is identical to HB 1626.

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. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
  4. Conference Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  5. Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  6. Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  7. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 960 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House (95-Y 0-N) — 950 (pass) · lower
  • Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) — 950 (pass) · lower
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 1-N) — 371 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 210 (pass) · lower
  • House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) — 139 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

  • Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-12-31 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100075D filing, introduction
  • 2024-12-31 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2025-01-16 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2025-01-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB822)
  • 2025-01-28 Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-28 Committee substitute printed 25104899D-S1 substitution
  • 2025-01-30 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-31 Committee substitute printed 25106561D-S2 substitution
  • 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB822)
  • 2025-02-03 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-03 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-04 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-02-04 Education and Health Substitute rejected
  • 2025-02-04 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2025-02-04 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-02-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-04 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-04 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-07 Placed on Calendar
  • 2025-02-07 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-02-07 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2025-02-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB822)
  • 2025-02-12 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-12 Committee substitute printed 25106936D-H1 substitution
  • 2025-02-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB822)
  • 2025-02-14 Read second time reading-2
  • 2025-02-17 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-17 Education Substitute agreed to
  • 2025-02-17 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-17 Passed House with substitute (95-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-17 Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
  • 2025-02-17 Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-18 House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N)
  • 2025-02-19 House insisted on substitute substitution
  • 2025-02-19 House requested conference committee referral-committee
  • 2025-02-20 Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2025-02-20 Senators: VanValkenburg, Pekarsky, Craig
  • 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2025-02-20 Delegates: Thomas, Simonds, Cherry
  • 2025-02-21 Amended by conference committee
  • 2025-02-21 Conference substitute printed 25107825D-S3
  • 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 1-N) committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB822ER) passage
  • 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB822)
  • 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
  • 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 489 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6f8f7d3-5bc0-4ede-b979-bef65447b086. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).