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type: "Bill"
title: "Heat-related illness; DOE to develop guidelines on policies to inform & educate coaches & athletes."
description: "Department of Education; heat-related illness;guidelines. Directs the Department of Education, in conjunctionwith stakeholders, to develop guidelines on policies to inform andeducate coaches and student athletes and their parents or guardiansof the nature and risk of heat-related illness, how to recognizethe signs of heat-related illness, and how to prevent heat-relatedillness to be distributed to local school divisions by August 1, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 161"
citation: "Virginia SB 161 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ghazala F. Hashmi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4bbefb5-1283-4a89-afb3-1c0b032c8ff6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB161"
source_hash: "1f3f4a996d1cce2b2aa3e848d567fafd1346b031aee5d8877649a3d33e1bf322"
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 SB 161 (2022) — Heat-related illness; DOE to develop guidelines on policies to inform & educate coaches & athletes.
Department of Education; heat-related illness;guidelines. Directs the Department of Education, in conjunctionwith stakeholders, to develop guidelines on policies to inform andeducate coaches and student athletes and their parents or guardiansof the nature and risk of heat-related illness, how to recognizethe signs of heat-related illness, and how to prevent heat-relatedillness to be distributed to local school divisions by August 1, 2022.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0428** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0428)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101762D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB161)
3. **SB161ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB161ER)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (19-Y 3-N) — **193** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (84-Y 15-N) — **8315** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101762D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-13** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB161)
- **2022-01-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Education (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Passed House (84-Y 15-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-03** VOTE: Passage (84-Y 15-N)
- **2022-03-08** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB161ER)
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 428 (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/c4bbefb5-1283-4a89-afb3-1c0b032c8ff6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).