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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Community College System; certain registered apprenticeships, uniform instruction."
description: "Requires the Virginia Community College System, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop and deliver uniform, related instruction for registered apprenticeships in high-demand programs, as determined by the Virginia Board of Workforce Development and the Virginia Employment Commission, and for which coursework is not otherwise available. The bill requires such instruction to be available statewide and to be delivered in a face-to-face, online, or blended format."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2020"
citation: "Virginia HB 2020 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew James - Resigned 5/19"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 34
vote_count: 13
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1606e4ec-ae3c-4f53-9da7-287efc309cd9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2020"
source_hash: "ea9be64942aa81268a276d09268ba2b3d417ce027228160505d38293e96f121f"
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 2020 (2019) — Virginia Community College System; certain registered apprenticeships, uniform instruction.
Requires the Virginia Community College System, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop and deliver uniform, related instruction for registered apprenticeships in high-demand programs, as determined by the Virginia Board of Workforce Development and the Virginia Employment Commission, and for which coursework is not otherwise available. The bill requires such instruction to be available statewide and to be delivered in a face-to-face, online, or blended format.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0580)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2020AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2020)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2020ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2020ER)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102341D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2020)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102341D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2020E)
7. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2020ASE)
## Votes
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **380** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House — **970** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **220** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment rejected by House — **199** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance with amendment — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Senate insisted on amendment — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with amendments — **200** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- L. Louise Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102341D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2019-01-23** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Assigned App. sub: Higher 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 HB2020E
- **2019-02-04** Printed as engrossed 19102341D-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`
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Senate amendment rejected by House (1-Y 99-N)
- **2019-02-21** Senate requested conference committee
- **2019-02-21** House acceded to request
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by House
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2019-02-22** Amended by conference committee
- **2019-02-23** Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- **2019-03-07** Enrolled
- **2019-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-03-09** Signed by President
- **2019-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- **2019-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 580 (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/1606e4ec-ae3c-4f53-9da7-287efc309cd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).