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Bill Teaching Experience; regulations Governing Allowable Credit. Board of Education; Regulations Governing Allowable Credit for Teaching Experience; certain credit substitution allowance permitted. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to provide that teachers in the field of career and technical education, where the licensure requirement calls for occupational work experience beyond the apprenticeship level, may be allowed salary placement credit for one year of teaching experience for each one or two years of work experience. The bill satisfies the reenactment requirement of Chapter 677 of the Acts of Assembly of 2025. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2026 HB 647 Virginia HB 647 (2026)
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Virginia HB 647 (2026) — Teaching Experience; regulations Governing Allowable Credit.

Board of Education; Regulations Governing Allowable Credit for Teaching Experience; certain credit substitution allowance permitted. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to provide that teachers in the field of career and technical education, where the licensure requirement calls for occupational work experience beyond the apprenticeship level, may be allowed salary placement credit for one year of teaching experience for each one or two years of work experience. The bill satisfies the reenactment requirement of Chapter 677 of the Acts of Assembly of 2025.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Education Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Passage R — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health — 150 (pass) · upper
  • H VOTE: — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education with amendment(s) — 210 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 100 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 370 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Hillary Pugh Kent — primary (person)
  • R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
  • Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Timothy P. Griffin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102678D filing, introduction
  • 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2026-01-27 Referred from General Laws and referred to Education (Voice Vote) referral-committee
  • 2026-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB647)
  • 2026-01-30 Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
  • 2026-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
  • 2026-02-03 House committee offered
  • 2026-02-04 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-02-06 Read first time reading-1
  • 2026-02-09 Read second time reading-2
  • 2026-02-09 committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2026-02-09 Engrossed by House as amended
  • 2026-02-10 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
  • 2026-02-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB647)
  • 2026-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2026-02-11 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 (HB647ER) passage
  • 2026-03-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB647)
  • 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 802 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e55eb72-3965-4d67-a362-1e4f19afa5c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).