Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers.
Summary
Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; exclusions. Excludes from the definition of "publicly funded provider" for the purpose of provisions of law relating to early childhood care and education any program for which the sole source of public funding is financial assistance for military child care pursuant to relevant federal law and that is accredited by a U.S. Department of Defense-approved national accrediting body.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 3, 2025
Signed Mar 21, 2025
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MINOR
This bill reenacts and slightly reformats Virginia's early childhood care definitions without substantive policy changes. The text was converted from an enrolled bill format to a chaptered format with proper spacing and line breaks, but the actual legal definitions and requirements remain identical to the previous version.
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Text formatting and spacing were adjusted to convert from enrolled bill format to chaptered statute format, with no changes to legal content or definitions.
Floor votes · Senate Feb 18, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 18, 2025
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
11
Committee
7
Amendments
2
Mar 21, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 187
(Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1685ER)
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 10, 2025
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 5, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Education Amendments agreed to
lower
Jan 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2025
Committee
Assigned Educ sub: Early Childhood
lower
Jan 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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