republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1732.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School safety procedures; emergency situations, annual training."
description: "Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each student and employee in each school at least once each school year. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1732"
citation: "Virginia HB 1732 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-12-19"
last_action: "2019-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/090bbc23-8de3-4963-abe7-8c9b7aca5407"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1732"
source_hash: "430c9c6b35e924d2f1bca0689e7afed16a1d6687f32163668bc98b176547bf55"
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 1732 (2019) — School safety procedures; emergency situations, annual training.

Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each student and employee in each school at least once each school year. 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 (CHAP0140)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0140)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1732ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1732ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104872D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1732H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100605D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1732)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
- A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
- Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
- Cheryl B. Turpin — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Kirkland Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — 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)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Steve E. Heretick — cosponsor (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100605D `introduction`
- **2018-12-19** 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 substitute agreed to 19104872D-H1
- **2019-01-21** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1732H1
- **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
- **2019-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 140 (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/090bbc23-8de3-4963-abe7-8c9b7aca5407`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).