Fabio
89 lines
5.4 KiB
Markdown
89 lines
5.4 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Free public elementary and secondary education; eligibility criteria."
|
||
description: "Requires every person of school age to be deemed to reside in a school division for the purpose of eligibility for free public elementary and secondary education in such school division when all or any portion of the building in which such person resides with certain other individuals or as an emancipated minor is taxable by the locality in which the school division is located. The bill provides that each student who resides on property that is located in more than one school division and who registers for enrollment at a public school in one such school division prior to July 1, 2019, and any sibling of any such student, is deemed to reside in the enrolled school division and is eligible to attend public school in such school division for free."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2019"
|
||
identifier: "HB 2297"
|
||
citation: "Virginia HB 2297 (2019)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: ["Education"]
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus B. Simon"]
|
||
version_count: 4
|
||
action_count: 23
|
||
vote_count: 6
|
||
first_action: "2019-01-08"
|
||
last_action: "2019-03-18"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c8ec363-ec8a-4681-89e7-986cb07015fd"
|
||
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2297"
|
||
source_hash: "16cd2c8484d121a3189b6cdd6857c292e2cd8a2519607c1a13d31cf035430485"
|
||
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 2297 (2019) — Free public elementary and secondary education; eligibility criteria.
|
||
|
||
Requires every person of school age to be deemed to reside in a school division for the purpose of eligibility for free public elementary and secondary education in such school division when all or any portion of the building in which such person resides with certain other individuals or as an emancipated minor is taxable by the locality in which the school division is located. The bill provides that each student who resides on property that is located in more than one school division and who registers for enrollment at a public school in one such school division prior to July 1, 2019, and any sibling of any such student, is deemed to reside in the enrolled school division and is eligible to attend public school in such school division for free.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0586)
|
||
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2297ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2297ER)
|
||
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103220D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2297)
|
||
4. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106590D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2297S1)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **14–1** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106590D-S1 — **100–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Reported from Education — **22–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Marcus B. Simon — primary (person)
|
||
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103220D `introduction`
|
||
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2019-01-21** Referred from Finance by voice vote
|
||
- **2019-01-21** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2019-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2019-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
|
||
- **2019-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
|
||
- **2019-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
|
||
- **2019-02-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2019-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
|
||
- **2019-02-18** Committee substitute agreed to 19106590D-S1
|
||
- **2019-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2297S1
|
||
- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
|
||
- **2019-02-19** Passed by for the day
|
||
- **2019-02-20** Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106590D-S1 (100-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
|
||
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
|
||
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
|
||
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
|
||
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
|
||
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 586 (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/6c8ec363-ec8a-4681-89e7-986cb07015fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|