SB 19 VA

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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.

• Mamie E. Locke Democratic · primary

1. Nov 17, 2025 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100692D · upper
2. Nov 17, 2025 Referred to Committee on Education and Health · upper
3. Jan 15, 2026 Assigned Education sub: Public Education · upper
4. Jan 22, 2026 Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 5-N 1-A) · upper
5. Jan 23, 2026 Rules suspended · upper
6. Jan 23, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
7. Jan 23, 2026 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote) · upper
8. Jan 23, 2026 Passed by for the day · upper
9. Jan 26, 2026 Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote) · upper
10. Jan 26, 2026 Read second time · upper
11. Jan 26, 2026 Engrossed by Senate · upper
12. Jan 27, 2026 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A) · upper
13. Feb 3, 2026 Placed on Calendar · lower
14. Feb 3, 2026 Read first time · lower
15. Feb 3, 2026 Referred to Committee on Education · lower
16. Feb 4, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB19) · upper
17. Feb 18, 2026 Reported from Education (14-Y 7-N) · lower
18. Feb 20, 2026 Read second time · lower
19. Feb 23, 2026 Read third time · lower
20. Feb 23, 2026 Passed House (62-Y 34-N 0-A) · lower
21. Feb 24, 2026 Enrolled · upper
22. Feb 24, 2026 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB19ER) · upper
23. Feb 24, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB19) · upper
24. Feb 24, 2026 Signed by Speaker · lower
25. Feb 24, 2026 Signed by President · upper
26. Mar 10, 2026 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 · upper
27. Mar 10, 2026 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 · executive
28. Apr 6, 2026 Approved by Governor-Chapter 322 (effective 7/1/2026) · executive
29. Apr 6, 2026 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) · executive

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Chaptered · PDF
• Chaptered · HTML
• Enrolled · PDF
• Enrolled · HTML
• Introduced · PDF
• Introduced · HTML