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type: "Bill"
title: "Public school building security enhancements; compliance with Uniform Statewide Building Code, etc."
description: "Requires each school board, in consultation with the local building official and the state or local fire marshal, to develop a procurement plan to ensure that all security enhancements to public school buildings are in compliance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code and Statewide Fire Prevention Code."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1725"
citation: "Virginia HB 1725 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Fire Protection"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry D. Knight"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-12-18"
last_action: "2019-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25cb6d6d-b505-4abd-a32b-2c4f5b3e511e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1725"
source_hash: "5099b916e0057719efa166dea71e13587f083d87228c3f5d670287507f82e1c2"
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 1725 (2019) — Public school building security enhancements; compliance with Uniform Statewide Building Code, etc.
Requires each school board, in consultation with the local building official and the state or local fire marshal, to develop a procurement plan to ensure that all security enhancements to public school buildings are in compliance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code and Statewide Fire Prevention Code.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0121)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1725AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1725ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1725ER)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102593D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1725)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102593D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1725E)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendment — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- M. Kirkland Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-12-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102593D `introduction`
- **2018-12-18** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-21** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-01-21** Engrossed by House as amended HB1725E
- **2019-01-21** Printed as engrossed 19102593D-E
- **2019-01-22** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 121 (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/25cb6d6d-b505-4abd-a32b-2c4f5b3e511e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).