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| Bill | Health Ed. SOL & Curriculum Framework; Board of Education to include water safety instruction. | Board of Education; Health Standards of Learning; water safety. Requires the Board of Education, during its next regularly scheduled revision of the Health Education Standards of Learning and Curriculum Framework, to develop and make available to each school board guidelines for a program of instruction on water safety to be provided as a part of any health education instruction provided to elementary school students. This bill is identical to SB 151. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 705 | Virginia HB 705 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 705 (2026) — Health Ed. SOL & Curriculum Framework; Board of Education to include water safety instruction.
Board of Education; Health Standards of Learning; water safety. Requires the Board of Education, during its next regularly scheduled revision of the Health Education Standards of Learning and Curriculum Framework, to develop and make available to each school board guidelines for a program of instruction on water safety to be provided as a part of any health education instruction provided to elementary school students. This bill is identical to SB 151.
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
- Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Education and Health Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- H VOTE: — 77–17 (pass) · lower
- Passage R — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 82–16 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Committee Report R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute — 17–4 (pass) · lower
- Insist & Request R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 0–97 (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 9–1 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103870D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2026-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB705)
- 2026-01-30 Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2026-02-03 House subcommittee offered
- 2026-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N)
substitution - 2026-02-04 Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 4-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-04 Committee substitute printed 26107000D-H1
substitution - 2026-02-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB705)
- 2026-02-06 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-09 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-09 committee substitute agreed to
substitution - 2026-02-09 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2026-02-10 Read third time and passed House (82-Y 16-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-02-11 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2026-02-19 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-19 Senate committee offered
- 2026-02-19 Committee substitute printed 26108241D-S1
substitution - 2026-02-20 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-20 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB705)
- 2026-02-23 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-23 Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 2026-02-23 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
substitution - 2026-02-23 Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-02-25 Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 97-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-27 Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
substitution - 2026-02-27 Senate requested conference committee
referral-committee - 2026-03-02 House acceded to request
- 2026-03-04 Conferees appointed by House
- 2026-03-04 House Conferees: Hayes, Simonds, Kilgore
- 2026-03-04 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2026-03-04 Senate Conferees: Perry, Pekarsky, Craig
- 2026-03-12 Conference Report released
- 2026-03-13 Conference report agreed to by House (77-Y 17-N 0-A)
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-03-13 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 (HB705ER)
passage - 2026-03-30 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB705)
- 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 - 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 204 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16d6c6fc-b787-4b63-b5cd-1249611fabcc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).