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type: "Bill"
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title: "Public elementary & secondary school teachers; certain training activities, requirements, etc."
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description: "Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that term is defined in the bill, more frequently than once within six months of employment with the applicable school board and once every five years thereafter, except in the case of certain training relating to secure mandatory test violations upon determination by the school board or division superintendent that additional training is necessary. The bill also provides that the total frequency and duration of non-academic training activities in which each such teacher is required to participate pursuant to state law or regulation or policy or regulation of the applicable school board shall not exceed 25 hours every five years. This bill is identical to SB 822."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 1626"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1626 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Joshua E. Thomas"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 51
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vote_count: 13
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first_action: "2025-01-03"
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last_action: "2025-03-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea1a7358-17e9-47d9-9dea-04da37538e3a"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1626"
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source_hash: "fb264401185482c57844c682435e6eefd0752fdc7d047af786dca26c5e88e69f"
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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 1626 (2025) — Public elementary & secondary school teachers; certain training activities, requirements, etc.
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Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that term is defined in the bill, more frequently than once within six months of employment with the applicable school board and once every five years thereafter, except in the case of certain training relating to secure mandatory test violations upon determination by the school board or division superintendent that additional training is necessary. The bill also provides that the total frequency and duration of non-academic training activities in which each such teacher is required to participate pursuant to state law or regulation or policy or regulation of the applicable school board shall not exceed 25 hours every five years. This bill is identical to SB 822.
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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. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012362.PDF)
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2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1076883.PDF)
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3. **Conference Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066487.HTML)
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4. **Conference Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066489.PDF)
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5. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024568.PDF)
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6. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052242.PDF)
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7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068800.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N) — **0–96** (fail) · lower
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- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Joshua E. Thomas — primary (person)
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- Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102022D `filing, introduction`
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- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-10** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1626)
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- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2025-01-21** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1626)
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- **2025-01-22** Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-22** Committee substitute printed 25104836D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2025-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2025-01-27** Education Substitute agreed to
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- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
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- **2025-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13** Committee substitute printed 25107243D-S1 `substitution`
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- **2025-02-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1626)
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- **2025-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-19** Rules suspended
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- **2025-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
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- **2025-02-19** Passed by for the day
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- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2025-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
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- **2025-02-20** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
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- **2025-02-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2025-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
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- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2025-02-20** Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
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- **2025-02-20** Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2025-02-20** Senate requested conference committee `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-20** Conferees appointed by House
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- **2025-02-20** Delegates: Thomas, Simonds, Cherry
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- **2025-02-20** House acceded to request
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- **2025-02-20** Conferees appointed by Senate
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- **2025-02-20** Senators: VanValkenburg, Pekarsky, Craig
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- **2025-02-21** Amended by conference committee
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- **2025-02-21** Conference substitute printed 25107857D-H2
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- **2025-02-21** Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-02-21** Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1626ER) `passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1626)
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- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
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- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
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- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477)
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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/ea1a7358-17e9-47d9-9dea-04da37538e3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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