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type: "Bill"
title: "Public elementary & secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans."
description: "Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans required. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) or an athletic emergency action plan (EAP), as those terms are defined in the bill, that addresses the appropriate use of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual who is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency while on school grounds and, in the event that such school has an athletic department or organized athletic program, while attending or participating in an athletic practice or event. The bill requires each such CERP or athletic EAP to integrate nationally recognized evidence-based core elements and nationally recognized evidence-based guidelines and to integrate certain additional provisions and guidelines, including those relating to establishing a cardiac emergency response team, activating such team in response to a sudden cardiac event, and integrating the CERP or athletic EAP into the local community's emergency medical services response protocols. This bill is identical to SB 817."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1695"
citation: "Virginia HB 1695 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Q. Askew"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 46
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2025-01-04"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ab09865-335e-4a81-b96c-b4e02be4e8f6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1695"
source_hash: "a9f8f3961274b7d3514eca535c3f8f125113a598d933a1ab71319e2a9d80484d"
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 HB 1695 (2025) — Public elementary & secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans.
Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response or emergency action plans required. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) or an athletic emergency action plan (EAP), as those terms are defined in the bill, that addresses the appropriate use of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual who is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency while on school grounds and, in the event that such school has an athletic department or organized athletic program, while attending or participating in an athletic practice or event. The bill requires each such CERP or athletic EAP to integrate nationally recognized evidence-based core elements and nationally recognized evidence-based guidelines and to integrate certain additional provisions and guidelines, including those relating to establishing a cardiac emergency response team, activating such team in response to a sudden cardiac event, and integrating the CERP or athletic EAP into the local community's emergency medical services response protocols. This bill is identical to SB 817.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012684.PDF)
2. **Appropriations Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024301.HTML)
3. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1073453.PDF)
4. **Conference Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066682.HTML)
5. **Education and Health Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1051694.PDF)
6. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052250.PDF)
7. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1027241.PDF)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068808.PDF)
## Votes
- Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 0-N) — **920** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 97-N) — **097** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102068D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-04** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-11** Assigned Approps sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-22** Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Appropriations Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-01-27** Printed as engrossed 25102068D-E
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1695)
- **2025-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Committee substitute printed 25107540D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1695)
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-18** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 97-N)
- **2025-02-20** Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-02-20** Senate requested conference committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** House acceded to request
- **2025-02-20** Conferees appointed by House
- **2025-02-20** Delegates: Askew, Cohen, Leftwich
- **2025-02-20** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2025-02-20** Senators: VanValkenburg, Rouse, Head
- **2025-02-21** Amended by conference committee
- **2025-02-21** Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21** Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1695ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1695)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 372 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ab09865-335e-4a81-b96c-b4e02be4e8f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).