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type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc."
description: "Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution. This bill incorporates SB 71 and is identical to HB 48."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Virginia SB 46 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schuyler T. VanValkenburg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-21"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81b0ce72-50db-40fb-bd90-83524db599c7"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB46"
source_hash: "2ee413cb97813a93634aca87c36f1e696f8045ba06ff6d67bee46c8588ee2f40"
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 46 (2024) — Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc.
Public institutions of higher education; admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from providing any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student's legacy status, defined in the bill, or such student's familial relationship to any donor to such institution. This bill incorporates SB 71 and is identical to HB 48.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0002** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0002)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24105417D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB46S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101274D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB46)
4. **SB46ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB46ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — primary (person)
- Aaron R. Rouse — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101274D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-12-21** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-18** Committee substitute printed 24105417D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-18** Incorporates SB71 (McPike)
- **2024-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-01-22** Committee substitute agreed to 24105417D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-22** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB46S1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB46S1)
- **2024-01-23** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-19** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB46ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB46ER)
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 2 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81b0ce72-50db-40fb-bd90-83524db599c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).