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| Bill | Teaching licenses; automatic revocation upon certain convictions. | Board of Education; automatic revocation of teaching licenses upon certain convictions. Requires the Board of Education to automatically revoke the teaching license of a license holder upon receiving a record of the license holder's conviction of a felony and order to register under the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act. The bill provides that any such revocation applies to any active teaching license and to any inactive teaching license if such license was active at the time that the offense occurred. The bill provides that no such license holder whose teaching license has been so revoked is entitled to a hearing but that the license may be reinstated by the Board if the license holder's conviction is overturned on appeal and the Board is satisfied that reinstatement is in the best interest of the public schools of the Commonwealth. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 1387 | Virginia HB 1387 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 1387 (2026) — Teaching licenses; automatic revocation upon certain convictions.
Board of Education; automatic revocation of teaching licenses upon certain convictions. Requires the Board of Education to automatically revoke the teaching license of a license holder upon receiving a record of the license holder's conviction of a felony and order to register under the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act. The bill provides that any such revocation applies to any active teaching license and to any inactive teaching license if such license was active at the time that the offense occurred. The bill provides that no such license holder whose teaching license has been so revoked is entitled to a hearing but that the license may be reinstated by the Board if the license holder's conviction is overturned on appeal and the Board is satisfied that reinstatement is in the best interest of the public schools of the Commonwealth.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Reported from Education — 20–1 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 10–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Mike A. Cherry — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 26105617D
introduction - 2026-01-21 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2026-01-28 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1387)
- 2026-02-05 Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2026-02-10 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N)
- 2026-02-11 Reported from Education (20-Y 1-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-13 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-16 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-02-18 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2026-02-26 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2026-03-05 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-03-06 Rules suspended
- 2026-03-06 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-03-06 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-03-09 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-03-09 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-14 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-14 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1387ER)
passage - 2026-03-14 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-14 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1387)
- 2026-03-25 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 25, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-25 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 311 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a308ba55-7e10-4a02-badd-37027ea975ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).