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type: "Bill"
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title: "Students in local school division who receive home instruction; division's legal obligation."
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description: "Department of Education; Superintendent's memo; confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction. Requires, no later than the start of the 2025–2026 school year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to include in a Superintendent's memo an explanation of each division superintendent's obligations set forth in relevant law relating to the confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction."
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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 2598"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2598 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Phillip A. Scott"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 32
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-01-13"
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last_action: "2025-03-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2c6ae99-7d5a-4789-bd3f-14b16f185df9"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2598"
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source_hash: "9e92b8aacaeddbb3358941f034494080eaf23b67cd8b465ae871529e08f94912"
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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 2598 (2025) — Students in local school division who receive home instruction; division's legal obligation.
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Department of Education; Superintendent's memo; confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction. Requires, no later than the start of the 2025–2026 school year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to include in a Superintendent's memo an explanation of each division superintendent's obligations set forth in relevant law relating to the confidentiality of certain information relating to students who receive home instruction.
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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/1019107.PDF)
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2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072404.PDF)
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3. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032314.PDF)
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4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061441.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Phillip A. Scott — primary (person)
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- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark L. Earley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103453D `filing, introduction`
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- **2025-01-13** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-20** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2025-01-29** Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-29** Committee substitute printed 25105695D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2025-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-03** Education Substitute agreed to
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- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
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- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
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- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2598)
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- **2025-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-13** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
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- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
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- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
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- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2598ER) `passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2598)
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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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- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 291 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
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- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291)
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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/d2c6ae99-7d5a-4789-bd3f-14b16f185df9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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