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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 181: School counselors; decreases public school staffing ratios.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 181 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 3, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: School counselors; decreases public school staffing ratios. Primary sponsor: Michael Feggans (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Appropriations.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Public school staffing ratios; school counselors. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Michael FeggansPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse97
Nadarius ClarkCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse84

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Appropriations (Voice Vote)
  3. Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
  4. Impact statement from DPB (HB181)
  5. Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
  6. Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  7. Reported from Education (17-Y 4-N)
  8. Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
  9. Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  10. Assigned Education sub: K-12
  11. Referred to Committee on Education
  12. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101441D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source