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| Bill | Public education; early childhood care and education, child care access calculations, report. | Public education; early childhood care and education; child care access calculations; report. Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain calculations for the provision of early childhood care and education services based on cost of quality rate per child, actual data from the prior year, an estimate of parental demand and choice preferences based on historic growth trends and current eligibility criteria, and an estimate of the number of slots to be added to support local or regional economic development efforts and public-private partnerships focused on increasing the supply of child care services, giving priority to localities or regions identified as child care deserts, as determined by the Department. The bill also contains several provisions relating to the use and appropriation of funds as applicable to such calculations, including (i) providing that the calculations shall not obligate the General Assembly to a specific appropriation, (ii) requiring the calculations to be used to provide information to guide the General Assembly in making decisions about the proportion of parental demand for and supply of early childhood care and education services to be addressed and level of appropriation required to address such demand, and (iii) providing that the annual overall funding available for slots shall be subject to appropriation as determined by the General Assembly. The bill also provides that if waitlists for slots at early childhood care and education sites remain, up to $5 million from prior-year unexpended state general funds appropriated for such purpose in a general appropriation act may be carried forward to the current fiscal year to temporarily provide additional slots during the current fiscal year solely to reduce or eliminate waitlists, unless the general appropriation act authorizes a greater amount to be carried forward and that such prior-year funds shall not be used to increase the base amount of funding required in the subsequent fiscal year and the Department shall monitor program utilization and attrition to ensure that no families will lose access at the end of the current fiscal year. Finally, the bill requires the Department to annually submit to the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education and post on its website a report on the data used to calculate the minimum funding and number of slots for the calculations in accordance with the provisions of the bill. This bill is identical to SB 134. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 1208 | Virginia HB 1208 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 1208 (2026) — Public education; early childhood care and education, child care access calculations, report.
Public education; early childhood care and education; child care access calculations; report. Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain calculations for the provision of early childhood care and education services based on cost of quality rate per child, actual data from the prior year, an estimate of parental demand and choice preferences based on historic growth trends and current eligibility criteria, and an estimate of the number of slots to be added to support local or regional economic development efforts and public-private partnerships focused on increasing the supply of child care services, giving priority to localities or regions identified as child care deserts, as determined by the Department. The bill also contains several provisions relating to the use and appropriation of funds as applicable to such calculations, including (i) providing that the calculations shall not obligate the General Assembly to a specific appropriation, (ii) requiring the calculations to be used to provide information to guide the General Assembly in making decisions about the proportion of parental demand for and supply of early childhood care and education services to be addressed and level of appropriation required to address such demand, and (iii) providing that the annual overall funding available for slots shall be subject to appropriation as determined by the General Assembly. The bill also provides that if waitlists for slots at early childhood care and education sites remain, up to $5 million from prior-year unexpended state general funds appropriated for such purpose in a general appropriation act may be carried forward to the current fiscal year to temporarily provide additional slots during the current fiscal year solely to reduce or eliminate waitlists, unless the general appropriation act authorizes a greater amount to be carried forward and that such prior-year funds shall not be used to increase the base amount of funding required in the subsequent fiscal year and the Department shall monitor program utilization and attrition to ensure that no families will lose access at the end of the current fiscal year. Finally, the bill requires the Department to annually submit to the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education and post on its website a report on the data used to calculate the minimum funding and number of slots for the calculations in accordance with the provisions of the bill. This bill is identical to SB 134.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
- Conference Report Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- H VOTE: — 0–98 (fail) · lower
- H VOTE: — 76–20 (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — 74–22 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 9–1 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Committee Report R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Insist & Request R — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute — 18–3 (pass) · lower
- Passage R — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Briana D. Sewell — primary (person)
- Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charlie Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Pope Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Leslie Chambers Mehta — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsey Dougherty — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret A. Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Mark C. Downey — cosponsor (person)
- May Nivar — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104909D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-14 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2026-01-30 Assigned HED sub: Early Childhood and Innovation
referral-committee - 2026-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1208)
- 2026-02-04 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 1-N)
- 2026-02-09 Reported from Education with substitute (18-Y 3-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-09 House committee offered
- 2026-02-09 Committee substitute printed 26107408D-H1
substitution - 2026-02-09 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1208)
- 2026-02-11 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-12 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-12 committee substitute agreed to
substitution - 2026-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2026-02-13 Read third time and passed House (74-Y 22-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-02-16 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2026-02-19 Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-19 Senate committee offered
- 2026-02-19 Committee substitute printed 26108243D-S1
substitution - 2026-02-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1208)
- 2026-02-25 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-26 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-26 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-27 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-27 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 2026-02-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
substitution - 2026-02-27 Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-03 Senate substitute rejected by House
- 2026-03-05 Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
substitution - 2026-03-05 Senate requested conference committee
referral-committee - 2026-03-06 House acceded to request
- 2026-03-09 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2026-03-09 Senate Conferees: Locke, Favola, Pillion
- 2026-03-10 Conferees appointed by House
- 2026-03-10 House Conferees: Sewell, Askew, Kent
- 2026-03-14 Conference Report released
- 2026-03-14 Conference report agreed to by House (76-Y 20-N 0-A)
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-03-14 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-03-30 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-30 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1208ER)
passage - 2026-03-30 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1208)
- 2026-03-31 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-31 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-31 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 456 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77c1d940-fcb9-4fde-a377-d682f2bdf344. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).