HB 1499 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 SB 19.

• Destiny LeVere Bolling Democratic · primary

1. Jan 23, 2026 Presented and ordered printed 26101382D · lower
2. Jan 23, 2026 Referred to Committee on Education · lower
3. Feb 2, 2026 Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee · lower
4. Feb 3, 2026 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 3-N) · lower
5. Feb 4, 2026 Reported from Education (14-Y 7-N) · lower
6. Feb 6, 2026 Read first time · lower
7. Feb 9, 2026 Read second time and engrossed · lower
8. Feb 10, 2026 Read third time and passed House (62-Y 35-N 0-A) · lower
9. Feb 10, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1499) · lower
10. Feb 11, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) · upper
11. Feb 11, 2026 Referred to Committee on Education and Health · upper
12. Feb 19, 2026 Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) · upper
13. Feb 20, 2026 Rules suspended · upper
14. Feb 20, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
15. Feb 20, 2026 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote) · upper
16. Feb 23, 2026 Read third time · upper
17. Feb 23, 2026 Passed Senate (20-Y 18-N 0-A) · upper
18. Feb 25, 2026 Enrolled · lower
19. Feb 25, 2026 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1499ER) · lower
20. Feb 25, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1499) · lower
21. Feb 25, 2026 Signed by Speaker · lower
22. Feb 25, 2026 Signed by President · upper
23. Mar 10, 2026 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 · lower
24. Mar 10, 2026 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 · executive
25. Apr 6, 2026 Approved by Governor-Chapter 321 (effective 7/1/2026) · executive
26. Apr 6, 2026 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) · 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