republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1623.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military families; relocation to the Commonwealth, student registration."
description: "Permits any student whose service member parent is relocated to the Commonwealth pursuant to orders received to register for courses and other academic programs and participate in the lottery process for charter schools and college partnership laboratory schools in the school division in which such student will reside at the same time and in the same manner as students who reside in the local school division. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1623"
citation: "Virginia HB 1623 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Armed Forces", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Cole"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-10-17"
last_action: "2019-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a023420f-8128-41d2-ba26-70ce9e7f6963"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1623"
source_hash: "26854aa6520055bb87ba6b69711a1a0ab919d7c329b1e673b080c91585acd8d4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 1623 (2019) — Military families; relocation to the Commonwealth, student registration.

Permits any student whose service member parent is relocated to the Commonwealth pursuant to orders received to register for courses and other academic programs and participate in the lottery process for charter schools and college partnership laboratory schools in the school division in which such student will reside at the same time and in the same manner as students who reside in the local school division. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0404)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1623AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1623)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1623ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1623ER)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100465D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1623)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19100465D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1623E)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with amendments — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark L. Cole — primary (person)
- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher P. Stolle — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- Jason S. Miyares — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-17** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100465D `introduction`
- **2018-10-17** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2019-01-21** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House as amended HB1623E
- **2019-02-04** Printed as engrossed 19100465D-E
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 404 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a023420f-8128-41d2-ba26-70ce9e7f6963`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).