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type: "Bill"
title: "School board policies; epinephrine, accessibility."
description: "School board policies; epinephrine; accessibility.Requires each school board's policies on the possession and administration of epinephrine in every school in the local schooldivision to require that at least one school nurse, employee of theschool board, employee of a local governing body, or employee ofa local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trainedin the administration of epinephrine has the means to access at alltimes during regular school hours any such epinephrine that is storedin a locked or otherwise generally inaccessible container or area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 999"
citation: "Virginia HB 999 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bed43d8-15bc-4043-81b7-f965e4d5a116"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB999"
source_hash: "9da78fb88512d20bf3ec29b5c20f4f18d50fe9f6779bcfb3cd14bb396ea703f3"
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 999 (2020) — School board policies; epinephrine, accessibility.
School board policies; epinephrine; accessibility.Requires each school board's policies on the possession and administration of epinephrine in every school in the local schooldivision to require that at least one school nurse, employee of theschool board, employee of a local governing body, or employee ofa local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trainedin the administration of epinephrine has the means to access at alltimes during regular school hours any such epinephrine that is storedin a locked or otherwise generally inaccessible container or area.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0476)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB999ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB999ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB999)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB999)
## Votes
- VOTE: Passage #2 (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **61** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) — **961** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102721D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB999)
- **2020-01-22** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** Passed by temporarily
- **2020-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-28** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-28** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2020-01-28** Passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-01-28** VOTE: Passage #2 (98-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled
- **2020-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB999ER)
- **2020-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-02** Signed by President
- **2020-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
- **2020-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 476 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bed43d8-15bc-4043-81b7-f965e4d5a116`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).