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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 HB 705. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 151 | Virginia SB 151 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 151 (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 HB 705.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Education Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- K-12 Subcommittee Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from Education with substitute — 17–5 (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — 82–17 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 9–1 (pass) · lower
- Concur House Substitute R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Christie New Craig — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102594D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2026-01-15 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2026-01-22 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-01-23 Rules suspended
- 2026-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-01-23 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 2026-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB151)
- 2026-01-23 Passed by for the day
- 2026-01-26 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-01-26 Engrossed by Senate Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-01-26 Engrossed by Senate
- 2026-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-03 Placed on Calendar
- 2026-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2026-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N)
substitution - 2026-02-25 Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-25 Committee substitute printed 26108226D-H1
substitution - 2026-02-25 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB151)
- 2026-02-27 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-03-02 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-03-02 committee substitute agreed to
substitution - 2026-03-02 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2026-03-02 Passed House with substitute (82-Y 17-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-04 House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
substitution - 2026-03-10 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-10 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB151ER)
passage - 2026-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB151)
- 2026-03-10 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-10 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 205 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c086a63a-e94e-499a-b42e-beedb4948c86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).