VirginiaDOE; policies relating to instructional material that contains sexually explicit content.
What it does
Department of Education; policies relating to instructional material that contains sexually explicit content; applicability; construction. Amends current law requiring the Department of Education to develop model policies and each school board to adopt policies consistent with the Department's model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content by (i) defining "instructional material" as any material, regardless of its format, assigned and provided to a student by a public school teacher directly for the completion of an assignment or curricular objective and clarifying that "instructional material" does not include any book or audiovisual material available in a public school library unless specifically required or assigned by a public school teacher directly for completion of an assignment or curricular objective and (ii) providing that nothing in the applicable law or any model policy or amendments thereto adopted by the Department or any policy or amendments thereto adopted by a school board pursuant to the applicable law shall be (a) construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school or (b) utilized as a rationale or basis for the removal of books from any public elementary or secondary school. This bill is identical to SB 19.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Apr 6Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321)Latest
- Apr 6Approved by Governor Abigail Spanberger-Chapter 321 (effective 7/1/2026)Became Law
- Mar 10Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026To Governor
- Mar 10Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026Minor
- Feb 25Signed by PresidentMajor
- Feb 25Signed by SpeakerMajor
- Feb 25Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1499)
- Feb 25Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1499ER)Major
- Feb 25EnrolledMinor
- Feb 23Passed Senate (20-Y 18-N 0-A)Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Passage R. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 23Read third timeMinor
- Feb 20Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 20Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Feb 20Rules suspended
- Feb 19Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education and Health. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 11Referred to Committee on Education and HealthMinor
- Feb 11Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 10Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1499)
- Vote recorded H VOTE:. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 10Read third time and passed House (62-Y 35-N 0-A)Passed House
- Feb 9Read second time and engrossedMinor
- Feb 6Read first timeMinor
- Feb 4Reported from Education (14-Y 7-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 3Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 3-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 2Assigned HED sub: K-12 SubcommitteeMinor
- Jan 23Referred to Committee on EducationMinor
- Jan 23Presented and ordered printed 26101382DIntroduced