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type: "Bill"
title: "School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals."
description: "School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals; certain criminal convictions. Prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any felony crime of violence as defined in the bill or any offense involving a child. Current law prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any violent felony set forth in a certain statutory definition of \"barrier crime\" or any offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse, or rape of a child, or the solicitation of any such offense."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1924"
citation: "Virginia HB 1924 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeion A. Ward"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a32e5b00-5074-44af-a428-bc9bf2054d77"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1924"
source_hash: "3fa2542e87d4d2225379df508fb2217a4e0dd88682e137a7909a870cf62ffd90"
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 1924 (2025) — School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals.
School boards; prohibition against hiring or contracting for the services of certain individuals; certain criminal convictions. Prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any felony crime of violence as defined in the bill or any offense involving a child. Current law prohibits each school board from employing or contracting for the services of any individual who has been convicted of any violent felony set forth in a certain statutory definition of "barrier crime" or any offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse, or rape of a child, or the solicitation of any such offense.
## 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/1014057.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1079191.PDF)
3. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024054.PDF)
4. **Governor Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074780.PDF)
5. **Governor's Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1073562.HTML)
6. **Reenrolled** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1075054.PDF)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066632.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 4-N) — **174** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) — **2515** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- House concurred in Governor's recommendation (92-Y 2-N) — **922** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (71-Y 28-N) — **7128** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) — **96** (pass) · upper
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jeion A. Ward — primary (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101860D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-18** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-22** Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22** Committee substitute printed 25105422D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-23** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1924)
- **2025-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Education Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed House (71-Y 28-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **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 (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1924ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1924)
- **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** Governor's recommendation received by House `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2025-03-24** Governor's substitute printed (HB1924H2)
- **2025-04-02** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (92-Y 2-N)
- **2025-04-02** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-04-02** Governor's recommendation adopted `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-02** Reenrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-04-02** Reenrolled bill text (HB1924ER2) `enrolled`
- **2025-04-02** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2025-04-02** Signed by President as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2025-04-02** Enacted, Chapter 642 (Effective 07/01/25) `became-law`
- **2025-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a32e5b00-5074-44af-a428-bc9bf2054d77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).