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type: "Bill"
title: "Standards of Quality; state accountability, Standards of Learning assessment expedited retake score."
description: "Standards of Quality; state accountability; Standards of Learning assessment expedited retake scores. Directs the Board of Education, in its calculation of the passage rate for a Standards of Learning assessment or the level of achievement of the Standards of Learning objectives for an individual student growth assessment for the purposes of state accountability ratings, to include, for any student who retakes an assessment on an expedited basis and receives a passing score, the passing score received on the expedited retake and to exclude the score such student received on the assessment taken during the regular assessment administration period."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1243"
citation: "Virginia HB 1243 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/314d06da-24c5-42d1-82fe-b2927c423790"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1243"
source_hash: "2d6f90d108dcab3f667f90665c16264554be43f2e3229c814d15cd9b81d204fc"
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 1243 (2026) — Standards of Quality; state accountability, Standards of Learning assessment expedited retake score.
Standards of Quality; state accountability; Standards of Learning assessment expedited retake scores. Directs the Board of Education, in its calculation of the passage rate for a Standards of Learning assessment or the level of achievement of the Standards of Learning objectives for an individual student growth assessment for the purposes of state accountability ratings, to include, for any student who retakes an assessment on an expedited basis and receives a passing score, the passing score received on the expedited retake and to exclude the score such student received on the assessment taken during the regular assessment administration period.
## 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/1088473.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217954.PDF)
3. **Education Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1139946.HTML)
4. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1135421.PDF)
5. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1142014.PDF)
6. **K-12 Subcommittee Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1138157.HTML)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1209080.PDF)
## Votes
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **100** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
- Virgil Thornton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102057D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1243)
- **2026-02-05** Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-02-10** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)
- **2026-02-11** Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-16** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-02-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1243)
- **2026-02-17** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-18** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-05** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-06** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-06** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-06** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-14** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1243ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1243)
- **2026-03-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 25, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 459 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/314d06da-24c5-42d1-82fe-b2927c423790`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).