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type: "Bill"
title: "Autism spectrum disorder; school board employees, professional development and continuing education."
description: "School board employees; professional development and continuing education; optional programs; children with autism spectrum disorder. Directs the Board of Education to provide guidance on and each school board to provide each year an optional program of high-quality professional development for instructional personnel and school board employees whose duties include regular contact with students on communicating with and supporting students with autism spectrum disorder. The bill provides that any instructional personnel or school board employee who completes such professional development shall be eligible for professional development points toward renewal of his license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1293"
citation: "Virginia SB 1293 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a8d2fbe-ca1c-4af0-b0c1-8355ab27aaaf"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1293"
source_hash: "a7a40b2098e17bf3e5b7a00ee229889f20dfd53427bcf65f4794da13dd9b71f3"
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 SB 1293 (2025) — Autism spectrum disorder; school board employees, professional development and continuing education.
School board employees; professional development and continuing education; optional programs; children with autism spectrum disorder. Directs the Board of Education to provide guidance on and each school board to provide each year an optional program of high-quality professional development for instructional personnel and school board employees whose duties include regular contact with students on communicating with and supporting students with autism spectrum disorder. The bill provides that any instructional personnel or school board employee who completes such professional development shall be eligible for professional development points toward renewal of his license.
## 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/1018822.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077390.PDF)
3. **Finance and Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1037521.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066816.PDF)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (98-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
- Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102154D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1293)
- **2025-01-28** Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Committee substitute printed 25106504D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-03** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1293)
- **2025-02-03** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-03** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-04** Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-04** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1293ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1293)
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on (date) `enrolled`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 516 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a8d2fbe-ca1c-4af0-b0c1-8355ab27aaaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).