5a13be122b
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
106 lines
6.8 KiB
Markdown
106 lines
6.8 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "School Construction Fund and Program; definitions."
|
||
description: "Virginia Public School Construction GrantsProgram and Fund; career and technical education programs eligible.Directs the Board of Education to revise the guidelines on theadministration of the Virginia Public School Construction GrantsProgram to explicitly clarify that grants provided to a qualifyingschool division under the Program may be used for construction, additions,infrastructure, site acquisition, and renovations for buildings andfacilities used for career and technical education programs providedat a regional comprehensive school. The bill also provides that \"publicschool buildings and facilities\" or \"public school buildings\" forthe purposes of the Program includes any school building or facilityused for career and technical education programs provided at any regional comprehensive school."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
|
||
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2024"
|
||
identifier: "SB 474"
|
||
citation: "Virginia SB 474 (2024)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Obenshain"]
|
||
version_count: 5
|
||
action_count: 38
|
||
vote_count: 8
|
||
first_action: "2024-01-09"
|
||
last_action: "2024-04-04"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5189b08-cae2-4b04-aa6d-6988043ce069"
|
||
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB474"
|
||
source_hash: "139332c67a617c5833eb3a1837204054f6c7def19b003398773f85188b25f629"
|
||
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 474 (2024) — School Construction Fund and Program; definitions.
|
||
|
||
Virginia Public School Construction GrantsProgram and Fund; career and technical education programs eligible.Directs the Board of Education to revise the guidelines on theadministration of the Virginia Public School Construction GrantsProgram to explicitly clarify that grants provided to a qualifyingschool division under the Program may be used for construction, additions,infrastructure, site acquisition, and renovations for buildings andfacilities used for career and technical education programs providedat a regional comprehensive school. The bill also provides that "publicschool buildings and facilities" or "public school buildings" forthe purposes of the Program includes any school building or facilityused for career and technical education programs provided at any regional comprehensive school.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **CHAP0389** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0389)
|
||
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106737D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB474S1)
|
||
3. **Committee substitute printed 24107370D-S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB474S2)
|
||
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103371D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB474)
|
||
5. **SB474ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB474ER)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103371D `filing, introduction`
|
||
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2024-01-24** Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2024-02-01** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2024-02-01** Committee substitute printed 24106737D-S1 `substitution`
|
||
- **2024-02-01** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2024-02-01** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
|
||
- **2024-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (SB474S1)
|
||
- **2024-02-07** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2024-02-07** Committee substitute printed 24107370D-S2 `substitution`
|
||
- **2024-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2024-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB474S2)
|
||
- **2024-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2024-02-09** Committee substitute rejected 24106737D-S1
|
||
- **2024-02-09** Reading of substitute waived
|
||
- **2024-02-09** Committee substitute agreed to 24107370D-S2 `substitution`
|
||
- **2024-02-09** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB474S2 `substitution`
|
||
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2024-02-09** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
|
||
- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
|
||
- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2024-02-23** Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2024-02-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
|
||
- **2024-02-28** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2024-03-01** Read second time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2024-03-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2024-03-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
|
||
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
|
||
- **2024-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB474ER) `passage`
|
||
- **2024-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB474ER)
|
||
- **2024-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
|
||
- **2024-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
|
||
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
|
||
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
|
||
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 389 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389)
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5189b08-cae2-4b04-aa6d-6988043ce069`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
|
||
|