HB 571 Virginia House of Delegates · 2024 Regular Session

Sexually explicit content; policies on parental notification of instructional material.

Summary
Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school. This bill is identical to SB 235.
Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
Vetoed
Mar 2024
Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Vetoed Mar 14, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Feb 26, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 13, 2024

How they voted

2118
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Feb 26, 2024
D Democratic21
20 Yea 1
95% Yea
R Republican19
1 Yea 18 Nay
94% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
25
Key actions
9
Committee
6
Apr 17, 2024
Vetoed
House sustained Governor's veto
lower
Mar 14, 2024
Vetoed
Vetoed by Governor
executive
Mar 3, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB571ER)
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
upper
Feb 22, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Passage (55-Y 40-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 40-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (14-Y 8-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 9, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 12 co-sponsors

Sponsors