HB 1972 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Early childhood care & education; statewide unified public-private system, capacity & family choice.

Summary
Statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; state goal; capacity and family choice. Requires the statewide, unified, public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be established with the goal of increasing and maintaining capacity systemwide to provide each family with meaningful access to high-quality and affordable choices among publicly funded, federally funded, mixed delivery, and private providers.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 7, 2025 Last action Feb 17, 2025
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What changed between versions

Education Subcommittee Substitute Education Substitute · 5 edits
MODERATE
The bill text was reformatted from a House Substitute version to an Education Subcommittee Substitute version, with significant changes to the bill's title, section numbering, and content structure. The substantive policy content regarding early childhood education funding, eligibility criteria, and program requirements appears to remain largely unchanged, though the formatting and organization of the text were substantially altered.
TECHNICAL

The bill header was changed from 'HOUSE SUBSTITUTE' to 'HOUSE SUBSTITUTE' with different document numbers (25105706D to 25105869D), indicating a revision in the legislative process.

The bill title was shortened from 'statewide, unified, universally accessible, public-private system' to 'statewide unified public-private system', removing the 'universally accessible' descriptor.

The bill's purpose statement was expanded to include goals of 'increasing and maintaining capacity systemwide to provide each family with meaningful access to high-quality and affordable choices among publicly funded, federally funded, mixed delivery, and private providers.'

The section lettering was reorganized, with subsections A, B, C, and D being renumbered and restructured, though the substantive content within each section appears to remain consistent.

The formatting of the bill text changed from a continuous paragraph structure to a more structured layout with line numbers and spacing, indicating this is a revised version of the same legislative proposal.

Floor votes · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

How they voted

5147
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 100
Feb 4, 2025
D Democratic51
50 Yea 1
98% Yea
R Republican49
1 Yea 47 Nay 1
95% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
17
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Feb 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-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 47-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2025
Committee
Assigned Educ sub: Early Childhood
lower
Jan 7, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 18 co-sponsors

Sponsors