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 HB 1499.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Apr 6Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322)Latest
- Apr 6Approved by Governor Abigail Spanberger-Chapter 322 (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 24Signed by PresidentMajor
- Feb 24Signed by SpeakerMajor
- Feb 24Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB19)
- Feb 24Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB19ER)Major
- Feb 24EnrolledMinor
- Feb 23Passed House (62-Y 34-N 0-A)Passed House
- Vote recorded H VOTE:. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 23Read third timeMinor
- Feb 20Read second timeMinor
- Feb 18Reported from Education (14-Y 7-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 4Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB19)
- Feb 3Referred to Committee on EducationMinor
- Feb 3Read first timeMinor
- Feb 3Placed on Calendar
- Jan 27Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A)Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Passage R. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 26Engrossed by Senate
- Jan 26Read second timeMinor
- Jan 26Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- Jan 23Passed by for the day
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed R. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 23Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- Jan 23Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Jan 23Rules suspended
- Jan 22Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 5-N 1-A)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education and Health. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 15Assigned Education sub: Public EducationMinor
- 2025
- Nov 17Referred to Committee on Education and HealthMinor
- Nov 17Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100692DIntroduced