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type: "Bill"
title: "Annual school safety audits; items to be reviewed."
description: "Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety;school safety audit; requirements. Requires the Virginia Centerfor School and Campus Safety to include in the list of items to bereviewed and evaluated in school safety audits and each school boardto require all schools under its supervision to review and evaluatein their annual school safety audits information relating to thetype of school security technology utilized in each public schoolbuilding in the applicable school division, including informationrelating to the specific types of technology systems and the age of such systems."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 561"
citation: "Virginia HB 561 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Q. Askew"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9775d91f-58ca-4acb-9355-08eccd0a7163"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB561"
source_hash: "b7a035736c2e8f2dbdedf21cafd2f6037fce4b85e11c6164afb413b59b4f27f0"
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 561 (2024) — Annual school safety audits; items to be reviewed.
Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety;school safety audit; requirements. Requires the Virginia Centerfor School and Campus Safety to include in the list of items to bereviewed and evaluated in school safety audits and each school boardto require all schools under its supervision to review and evaluatein their annual school safety audits information relating to thetype of school security technology utilized in each public schoolbuilding in the applicable school division, including informationrelating to the specific types of technology systems and the age of such systems.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0429** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0429)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106804D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB561H1)
3. **HB561ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB561ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104960D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB561)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104960D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB561)
- **2024-01-19** Assigned CT & I sub: Technology and Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-24** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-02-07** Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** Committee substitute printed 24106804D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB561H1)
- **2024-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 24106804D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB561H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB561ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB561ER)
- **2024-03-08** 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`
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 429 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9775d91f-58ca-4acb-9355-08eccd0a7163`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).