Public middle & high schools; establishing career & technical student organizations, etc.
Summary
Public middle and high schools; establishment of career and technical student organizations; certain exclusions. Establishes an exception to the authority granted to each public middle school and high school to establish career and technical education student organizations, regardless of whether such school offers career and technical education courses, in the case of any such organization that is established as a federally chartered corporation pursuant to an act of Congress.
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 6, 2025
Signed Mar 21, 2025
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MINOR
This bill finalizes the legislative process for HB 1783, which establishes career and technical education student organizations in Virginia public middle and high schools. The primary change is the addition of a specific approval date (March 21, 2025), indicating the bill has officially become law and is now enforceable. No substantive policy text, funding amounts, or eligibility criteria were altered in this version compared to the enrolled draft.
TIMELINE
Added the specific date of March 21, 2025, marking the official approval and enactment of the legislation.
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
33
Key actions
10
Committee
6
Mar 21, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (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 (HB1783ER)
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 (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 6, 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
Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2025
Committee
Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 6, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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