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type: "Bill"
title: "School Performance and Support Framework; Board of Education to consider certain changes, report."
description: "Board of Education; School Performance and Support Framework; certain changes. Requires the Board of Education to consider certain enumerated changes to the School Performance and Support Framework that it adopted in order to implement its school accountability standards, including developing and applying new school performance label terminology that more clearly communicates school performance as part of a continuous scale and rebalancing the weight assigned to growth, at least equally with proficiency, to more fully account for each school's contribution to student learning. This bill incorporates HB 1323 and is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 643"
citation: "Virginia HB 643 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15d3d88c-8c0e-4f1a-9f29-c6db2ce185d1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB643"
source_hash: "975c09101b5a5bb7d8625e75241d684ea723b1b01115502075a82831472c192a"
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 643 (2026) — School Performance and Support Framework; Board of Education to consider certain changes, report.
Board of Education; School Performance and Support Framework; certain changes. Requires the Board of Education to consider certain enumerated changes to the School Performance and Support Framework that it adopted in order to implement its school accountability standards, including developing and applying new school performance label terminology that more clearly communicates school performance as part of a continuous scale and rebalancing the weight assigned to growth, at least equally with proficiency, to more fully account for each school's contribution to student learning. This bill incorporates HB 1323 and is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.
## 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/1085333.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1221565.PDF)
3. **Education Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1108350.HTML)
4. **Education Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1134293.PDF)
5. **K-12 Subcommittee Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1108805.HTML)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194144.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **100** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **960** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104413D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-13** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30** Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-02-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)
- **2026-02-04** Reported from Education with amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB643)
- **2026-02-09** House committee offered
- **2026-02-09** Incorporates HB1323 (Reaser)
- **2026-02-09** Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-09** Committee substitute printed 26107193D-H1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-09** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB643)
- **2026-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
- **2026-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-02-13** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-16** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-27** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-27** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-06** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB643ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB643)
- **2026-03-06** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 649 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-13** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15d3d88c-8c0e-4f1a-9f29-c6db2ce185d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).