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type: "Bill"
title: "Standards of Learning assessments; through-year growth assessment system eliminated."
description: "Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system eliminated. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Education establish, in lieu of a one-time end-of-year assessment, a through-year growth assessment system, aligned with the Standards of Learning, for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight. The bill removes from current law other provisions relating to the administration of such through-year growth assessments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 199"
citation: "Virginia HB 199 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-07"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b7236df-c43f-422c-834c-119fd29593b1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB199"
source_hash: "3c1b7d50494e64bea1ab32e5f9e33dcbc09d983c976ba166df3c2d8d693fd4b1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 199 (2026) — Standards of Learning assessments; through-year growth assessment system eliminated.
Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system eliminated. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Education establish, in lieu of a one-time end-of-year assessment, a through-year growth assessment system, aligned with the Standards of Learning, for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight. The bill removes from current law other provisions relating to the administration of such through-year growth assessments.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1083028.PDF)
2. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1196300.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1210652.PDF)
## Votes
- H VOTE: — **926** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **150** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **916** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **110** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education — **192** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101314D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N)
- **2026-01-21** Reported from Education (19-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-23** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB199)
- **2026-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-27** Read third time and passed House (92-Y 6-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-01-28** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Senate subcommittee offered
- **2026-03-05** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05** Senate committee offered
- **2026-03-05** Committee substitute printed 26108111D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-03-05** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB199)
- **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** Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-03-09** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-03-09** Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Senate substitute agreed to by House (91-Y 6-N 0-A) `substitution`
- **2026-03-30** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-30** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB199ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB199)
- **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`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 914 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b7236df-c43f-422c-834c-119fd29593b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).