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type: "Bill"
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title: "Guidance counselors; changes name to school counselors, staff time."
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description: "Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school to spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "HB 1729"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1729 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Education"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2018-12-19"
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last_action: "2019-02-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9704bbad-272d-4bf5-a9a6-1a1d39a2e98e"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1729"
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source_hash: "87572d1cf04e790bb6076346a1806ce1798ae3e53183d2c9348aea187d21e329"
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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 1729 (2019) — Guidance counselors; changes name to school counselors, staff time.
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Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school to spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students.
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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 (CHAP0139)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0139)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1729ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1729ER)
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3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104768D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1729H1)
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4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100598D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1729)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
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- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
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- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
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- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
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- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
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- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
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- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
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- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
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- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Kirkland Cox — cosponsor (person)
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- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
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- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
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- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronnie R. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
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- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
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- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
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- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
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- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-12-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100598D `introduction`
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- **2018-12-19** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-21** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-21** Committee substitute agreed to 19104768D-H1
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- **2019-01-21** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1729H1
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- **2019-01-22** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
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- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
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- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
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- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
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- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
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- **2019-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 139 (effective 7/1/19) `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/9704bbad-272d-4bf5-a9a6-1a1d39a2e98e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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