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type: "Bill"
title: "Annual public elementary and secondary school safety audits; creation or review of school building."
description: "Annual public elementary and secondary school safety audits; creation or review of school building floor plans required. Requires each local school board, as part of each annual school safety audit, to create a detailed and accurate floor plan for each public school building in the local school division or certify that the existing floor plan for each such school is sufficiently detailed and accurate but provides that such floor plan may be withheld from public disclosure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 741"
citation: "Virginia HB 741 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe1202e0-bb83-4c7a-a948-676358abccd2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB741"
source_hash: "e78483449046205b6712ec0bf08f4f1b207118e5aa8be809adf25f25b4cb5b1f"
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 741 (2022) — Annual public elementary and secondary school safety audits; creation or review of school building.
Annual public elementary and secondary school safety audits; creation or review of school building floor plans required. Requires each local school board, as part of each annual school safety audit, to create a detailed and accurate floor plan for each public school building in the local school division or certify that the existing floor plan for each such school is sufficiently detailed and accurate but provides that such floor plan may be withheld from public disclosure.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0057** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0057)
2. **HB741ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB741ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101168D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB741)
## Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101168D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB741)
- **2022-01-26** Assigned Education sub: K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-08** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2022-02-08** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Enrolled
- **2022-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-23** Signed by President
- **2022-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB741ER)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-01** Approved by Governor-Chapter 57 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe1202e0-bb83-4c7a-a948-676358abccd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).