republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/sb-439.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	College and Career Ready Virginia Program; advisory committee and work group composition.	Department of Education; College and Career Ready Virginia Program; administration; advisory committee and work group composition. Removes the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from the membership of the advisory committee and the work group that the Department of Education and the Community College System are required to establish for administration of the College and Career Ready Program pursuant to applicable law. This bill is identical to HB 1039.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	SB 439	Virginia SB 439 (2026)	bill		enacted	Lamont Bagby	2	27	5	2026-01-13	2026-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/2bd81b10-7206-4738-bc68-e359fd2a8936	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB439	f90f11e84042568a636f3ec5261c5b0659da3c02a210d061578205af44696f96	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 439 (2026) — College and Career Ready Virginia Program; advisory committee and work group composition.

Department of Education; College and Career Ready Virginia Program; administration; advisory committee and work group composition. Removes the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from the membership of the advisory committee and the work group that the Department of Education and the Community College System are required to establish for administration of the College and Career Ready Program pursuant to applicable law. This bill is identical to HB 1039.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed R — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lamont Bagby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102410D filing, introduction
• 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2026-01-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB439)
• 2026-01-22 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2026-01-29 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-01-30 Rules suspended
• 2026-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-01-30 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
• 2026-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-02 Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
• 2026-02-03 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-09 Placed on Calendar
• 2026-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-09 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2026-02-18 Assigned HAPP sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2026-02-20 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-02-25 Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-02-27 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB439ER) passage
• 2026-02-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB439)
• 2026-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-02-27 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 807 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2bd81b10-7206-4738-bc68-e359fd2a8936. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).