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type: "Bill"
title: "Students with disabilities; individualized accommodations and supports during emergency evacuations."
description: "Individualized education programs; individualized accommodations and supports during emergencies. Permits, if deemed appropriate by the individualized education program (IEP) team, including the parent, each IEP implemented for a public school student with a disability, with the exception of such students who have been placed in private day or residential school settings, to contain language addressing individualized accommodations and supports for the student during emergency situations and evacuations. The bill also (i) provides that in developing such language, IEP teams should be supported by the school administration and (ii) directs the Department of Education to provide guidance to school divisions on how to support IEP teams for the consideration of specific supports required for students with disabilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1806"
citation: "Virginia HB 1806 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laura Jane Cohen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/328807c5-ee76-4f3d-9b82-6634e0abadbc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1806"
source_hash: "c657483486bf453364fa5022d2c803e57f3ca2e8a3c538288598833393964a45"
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 1806 (2025) — Students with disabilities; individualized accommodations and supports during emergency evacuations.
Individualized education programs; individualized accommodations and supports during emergencies. Permits, if deemed appropriate by the individualized education program (IEP) team, including the parent, each IEP implemented for a public school student with a disability, with the exception of such students who have been placed in private day or residential school settings, to contain language addressing individualized accommodations and supports for the student during emergency situations and evacuations. The bill also (i) provides that in developing such language, IEP teams should be supported by the school administration and (ii) directs the Department of Education to provide guidance to school divisions on how to support IEP teams for the consideration of specific supports required for students with disabilities.
## 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/1013065.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071434.PDF)
3. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1019855.PDF)
4. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1043037.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050051.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (Y-97 N-0 A-0) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Laura Jane Cohen — primary (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104351D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-11** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1806)
- **2025-01-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-15** Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-15** Committee substitute printed 25104850D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-17** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-20** Education Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-20** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-01-21** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-22** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1806)
- **2025-02-06** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06** Committee substitute printed 25106863D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1806)
- **2025-02-07** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-07** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-10** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-10** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Senate substitute agreed to by House (Y-97 N-0 A-0) `substitution`
- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1806ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1806)
- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 141 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/328807c5-ee76-4f3d-9b82-6634e0abadbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).