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type: "Bill"
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title: "Teachers; changes to provisions relating to licensure and certification, reciprocity."
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description: "Teachers; certain licenses and certificates. Makes several changes to provisions of law relating to the licensure and certification of teachers, including (i) establishing universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for certain licensed out-of-state teachers, regardless of the traditional or alternative nature of the education preparation programs that they completed; (ii) establishing and enumerating the criteria for a subject matter expert teaching certificate to provide high-quality teaching candidates who have relevant work experience or expertise in a content or subject matter area an accelerated path toward a renewable license; (iii) permitting the division superintendent rather than the Board of Education, as is current law, to issue a career and technical education teacher a provisional license to allow time for the teacher to attain the industry certification credential required by law; (iv) permitting any high school principal to waive, for any individual whom he seeks to employ as a career and technical education teacher and who is also seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license with an endorsement in the area of career and technical education, certain applicable licensure requirements; and (v) permitting any division superintendent to directly waive, rather than apply to the Department of Education for a biennial waiver as is required under current law, the teacher licensure requirements for any individual whom the local school board hires or seeks to hire to teach in a trade and industrial education program who has obtained or is working toward an industry credential relating to the program area and who has at least 4,000 hours of recent and relevant employment experience."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "HB 632"
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citation: "Virginia HB 632 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 50
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vote_count: 10
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first_action: "2024-01-09"
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last_action: "2024-04-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6d035bb-dc4e-49b6-b590-f9df044d1f37"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB632"
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source_hash: "8d13582e6ea85e601709c2b1da517f4534e83e1177af25a832775347e911c9b4"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 632 (2024) — Teachers; changes to provisions relating to licensure and certification, reciprocity.
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Teachers; certain licenses and certificates. Makes several changes to provisions of law relating to the licensure and certification of teachers, including (i) establishing universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for certain licensed out-of-state teachers, regardless of the traditional or alternative nature of the education preparation programs that they completed; (ii) establishing and enumerating the criteria for a subject matter expert teaching certificate to provide high-quality teaching candidates who have relevant work experience or expertise in a content or subject matter area an accelerated path toward a renewable license; (iii) permitting the division superintendent rather than the Board of Education, as is current law, to issue a career and technical education teacher a provisional license to allow time for the teacher to attain the industry certification credential required by law; (iv) permitting any high school principal to waive, for any individual whom he seeks to employ as a career and technical education teacher and who is also seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license with an endorsement in the area of career and technical education, certain applicable licensure requirements; and (v) permitting any division superintendent to directly waive, rather than apply to the Department of Education for a biennial waiver as is required under current law, the teacher licensure requirements for any individual whom the local school board hires or seeks to hire to teach in a trade and industrial education program who has obtained or is working toward an industry credential relating to the program area and who has at least 4,000 hours of recent and relevant employment experience.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **CHAP0642** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0642)
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2. **Committee substitute printed 24106822D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB632H1)
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3. **Committee substitute printed 24108249D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB632S1)
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4. **HB632ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB632ER)
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5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104684D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB632)
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## Votes
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- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- VOTE: REJECTED (2-Y 97-N) — **2–96** (fail) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
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- Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
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- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
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- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104684D `filing, introduction`
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- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2024-01-19** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB632)
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- **2024-02-05** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
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- **2024-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2024-02-07** Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2024-02-07** Committee substitute printed 24106822D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2024-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2024-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 24106822D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB632H1 `substitution`
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- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB632H1)
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- **2024-02-21** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-29** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
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- **2024-02-29** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2024-02-29** Committee substitute printed 24108249D-S1 `substitution`
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- **2024-03-01** Impact statement from DPB (HB632S1)
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- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
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- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2024-03-04** Reading of substitute waived
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- **2024-03-04** Committee substitute agreed to 24108249D-S1 `substitution`
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- **2024-03-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB632S1 `substitution`
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- **2024-03-04** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2024-03-05** Senate substitute rejected by House 24108249D-S1 (2-Y 97-N)
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- **2024-03-05** VOTE: REJECTED (2-Y 97-N)
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- **2024-03-06** Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2024-03-06** Senate requested conference committee `referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-07** House acceded to request
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- **2024-03-07** Conferees appointed by House
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- **2024-03-07** Delegates: Rasoul, Laufer, Scott, P.A.
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- **2024-03-07** Conferees appointed by Senate
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- **2024-03-07** Senators: VanValkenburg, Hashmi, Peake
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- **2024-03-09** Amended by conference committee
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- **2024-03-09** Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-09** Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-09** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
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- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB632ER) `passage`
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- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
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- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2024-03-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB632ER)
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- **2024-03-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
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- **2024-03-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 642 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
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- **2024-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642)
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6d035bb-dc4e-49b6-b590-f9df044d1f37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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