republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-358.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Voluntary Registration Health and Safety Checklist; DOE to update."
description: "Voluntarily registered family day homes; safesleep guidance; compliance; training. Requires each voluntarilyregistered family day home to comply with all safe sleep guidelinesrecommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and to ensure thateach provider employed in such family day home completes basic trainingon such guidelines."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 358"
citation: "Virginia HB 358 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelly A. Simonds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-06"
last_action: "2024-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/269991e2-f1f9-489f-b251-1edd12b46b76"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB358"
source_hash: "88211da0eff7fea765fdc3cede30cf1b2108b8e37f7a703f6f0afc19347b8f41"
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 358 (2024) — Voluntary Registration Health and Safety Checklist; DOE to update.

Voluntarily registered family day homes; safesleep guidance; compliance; training. Requires each voluntarilyregistered family day home to comply with all safe sleep guidelinesrecommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and to ensure thateach provider employed in such family day home completes basic trainingon such guidelines.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0285** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0285)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106148D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB358H1)
3. **HB358ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB358ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102510D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB358)

## Votes

- Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Referred from Health and Human Services — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N) — **95–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102510D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Referred from Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB358)
- **2024-01-19** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-01-29** Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Committee substitute printed 24106148D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 24106148D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB358H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB358H1)
- **2024-02-02** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 2-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB358ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Impact statement from DPB (HB358ER)
- **2024-02-29** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-03** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 285 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/269991e2-f1f9-489f-b251-1edd12b46b76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).