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Bill	Early childhood care and education; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs.	Early childhood care and education; publiclyfunded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child dayprograms. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any childcare subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesfrom the federal funds that would otherwise render a child day programas a "publicly funded provider," as that term is defined and usedin relevant law relating to early childhood care and education. Thebill also exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of PublicInstruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependent children of military personnel and (ii) (a) is located on a militarybase or federal property or (b) is certified as a family child careprovider by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States andprovides that any branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesor its agent, including an installation commander of a military baseon which a child day program is located, may assume responsibilityfor approving or determining which children may be served by theprogram that is so exempted from licensure.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 739	Virginia HB 739 (2024)	bill		enacted	Briana D. Sewell	4	31	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c9c14f96-df8f-4edc-aaa1-3c20eb7861b8	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB739	fd71d8f80483a8b55565eac62c96966571c8fd168f78765486b262a0ceebbf4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 739 (2024) — Early childhood care and education; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs.

Early childhood care and education; publiclyfunded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child dayprograms. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any childcare subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesfrom the federal funds that would otherwise render a child day programas a "publicly funded provider," as that term is defined and usedin relevant law relating to early childhood care and education. Thebill also exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of PublicInstruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependent children of military personnel and (ii) (a) is located on a militarybase or federal property or (b) is certified as a family child careprovider by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States andprovides that any branch of the Armed Forces of the United Statesor its agent, including an installation commander of a military baseon which a child day program is located, may assume responsibilityfor approving or determining which children may be served by theprogram that is so exempted from licensure.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0049 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106106D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB739ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101358D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Briana D. Sewell — primary (person)
• Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101358D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB739)
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-31 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-05 Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute printed 24106106D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Incorporates Hb146 (Tata)
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB739H1)
• 2024-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Committee substitute agreed to 24106106D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB739H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB739ER) passage
• 2024-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB739ER)
• 2024-02-22 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 49 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9c14f96-df8f-4edc-aaa1-3c20eb7861b8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).