republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/hb-643.md

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Bill	School Performance and Support Framework; Board of Education to consider certain changes, report.	Board of Education; School Performance and Support Framework; certain changes. Requires the Board of Education to consider certain enumerated changes to the School Performance and Support Framework that it adopted in order to implement its school accountability standards, including developing and applying new school performance label terminology that more clearly communicates school performance as part of a continuous scale and rebalancing the weight assigned to growth, at least equally with proficiency, to more fully account for each school's contribution to student learning. This bill incorporates HB 1323 and is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	HB 643	Virginia HB 643 (2026)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	6	35	6	2026-01-13	2026-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/15d3d88c-8c0e-4f1a-9f29-c6db2ce185d1	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB643	975c09101b5a5bb7d8625e75241d684ea723b1b01115502075a82831472c192a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 643 (2026) — School Performance and Support Framework; Board of Education to consider certain changes, report.

Board of Education; School Performance and Support Framework; certain changes. Requires the Board of Education to consider certain enumerated changes to the School Performance and Support Framework that it adopted in order to implement its school accountability standards, including developing and applying new school performance label terminology that more clearly communicates school performance as part of a continuous scale and rebalancing the weight assigned to growth, at least equally with proficiency, to more fully account for each school's contribution to student learning. This bill incorporates HB 1323 and is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.

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 Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. K-12 Subcommittee Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• H VOTE: — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104413D filing, introduction
• 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2026-01-30 Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2026-02-03 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)
• 2026-02-04 Reported from Education with amendment(s) committee-passage
• 2026-02-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB643)
• 2026-02-09 House committee offered
• 2026-02-09 Incorporates HB1323 (Reaser)
• 2026-02-09 Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-09 Committee substitute printed 26107193D-H1 substitution
• 2026-02-09 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB643)
• 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 (96-Y 0-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 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2026-02-26 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-27 Rules suspended
• 2026-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-02-27 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
• 2026-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-02 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-06 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB643ER) passage
• 2026-03-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB643)
• 2026-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-06 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 649 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
• 2026-04-13 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15d3d88c-8c0e-4f1a-9f29-c6db2ce185d1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).