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Board of Education; regulations; qualifications of division superintendents. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulation that establishes the qualifications for division superintendents to (i) require the record of each candidate for the list of eligible division superintendents and the renewable division superintendent license under any of the four permitted options to attest to good character and demonstrated ability as an educational administrator and (ii) amend Option IV by requiring the candidate to have (a) completed five years of successful educational experience in a public school or an accredited nonpublic school, two years of which shall have been full-time teaching experience at the preK-12 level and two years of which shall have been in administration and supervision and (b) been recommended by a school board that is interested in employing the individual as division superintendent and that governs a school division with fewer than 2,000 enrolled students. The bill also provides that the requirements under Option IV that were in effect prior to the effective date of the bill shall apply to any individual who was employed as a division superintendent pursuant to Option IV as of such date and who maintains continuous employment as a division superintendent in any school division in the Commonwealth after such date.
Introduced
Jan 14, 2026
Last Action
Mar 14, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Signed by Speaker
Enrolled
Signed by President
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1165)
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1165ER)
Senate amendment agreed to by House (62-Y 33-N 0-A)
Read third time
Passed Senate with amendment (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate as amended
Education and Health Amendment agreed to
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reported from Education and Health with amendment (9-Y 6-N)
Senate subcommittee offered
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1165)
Read third time and passed House (61-Y 35-N 0-A)
committee amendments agreed to
Engrossed by House as amended
Read second time
Read first time
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (14-Y 7-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 3-N)
House subcommittee offered
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1165)
Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee
Referred to Committee on Education
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104767D
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Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Jeremy S. McPike