Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 2551: Home instruction; removes certain criteria for parents.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
HB 2551 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 10, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Home instruction; removes certain criteria for parents. Primary sponsor: Geary Higgins. Most recent recorded action (February 4, 2025): Left in Education.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria—holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child—by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-age child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends.
Sponsors
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geary Higgins | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Left in Education
- Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 2-N)
- Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2551)
- Referred to Committee on Education
- Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103656D