HB 1824 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits, etc.

Summary

High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits; certain substitutions permitted. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute the African American History course or the Advanced Placement African American Studies course for the World History I course or the World Geography course for the purpose of satisfying the history and social studies credit requirements, provided that enrollment in such an African American History course or Advanced Placement African American Studies course is available to the student. This bill is identical to SB 1462.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

Vetoed

May 2025

Introduced Jan 6, 2025 Vetoed May 2, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced → Enrolled · 1 edit · Mar 10, 2025

MINOR

This bill transitions HB 1824 from an introduced draft version to an enrolled, final version ready for signing into law. The substantive policy content of the high school graduation requirements remains unchanged; the differences are purely formatting and structural, including the addition of official act numbering, session headers, and page breaks typical of enrolled legislation.

TECHNICAL

Removed introductory draft metadata (committee referral, patron names, introduction date) and added official enrolled formatting (act numbers, chapter headers, page numbers, and approval stamps).

Floor votes · Senate Feb 17, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

How they voted

39–0

Passed · 1 other

Total votes 40

Feb 17, 2025

D Democratic21

21 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican19

18 Yea 1

94% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

May 2, 2025

Vetoed

Vetoed by Governor

executive

Apr 2, 2025

Vetoed

House rejected Governor's recommendation (26-Y 70-N)

lower

Mar 24, 2025

Vetoed

Governor's recommendation received by House

executive

Mar 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed by President

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed by Speaker

lower

Mar 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1824ER)

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Senate Amendments agreed to by House (52-Y 46-N)

lower

Feb 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate with amendments (24-Y 16-N)

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Introduced

Engrossed by Senate as amended

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

Education and Health Amendments agreed to

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Introduced

Reading of amendments waived

upper

Feb 18, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from Education and Health with amendments (10-Y 5-N)

upper

Feb 10, 2025

Committee

Assigned Education sub: Public Education

upper

Feb 5, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

upper

Feb 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)

lower

Jan 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from Education (12-Y 9-N)

lower

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)

lower

Jan 24, 2025

Committee

Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee

lower

Jan 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Education

lower

1 primary · 3 co-sponsors