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type: "Bill"
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title: "Public schools; suspensions."
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description: "Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1924"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1924 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Education"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-10"
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last_action: "2017-02-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4c937dd-d541-4e85-8b0a-4512ee47db73"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1924"
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source_hash: "38915ece2a781d3cbdb3707b5148a606610f83036658e3e665f05ffec6669028"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1924 (2017) — Public schools; suspensions.
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Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0231)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1924ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1924ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102230D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1924)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Education and Health — **13–2** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House — **82–12** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **38–2** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Education — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
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- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
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- Daun S. Hester — cosponsor (person)
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- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
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- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
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- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
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- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
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- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
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- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
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- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
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- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
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- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102230D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House (82-Y 12-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
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- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
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- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4c937dd-d541-4e85-8b0a-4512ee47db73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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