Skip to main content
Independent and nonpartisan. SaveYourState is a civic information resource. It is not a government website and is not affiliated with any government agency, party, or campaign.

Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 677: Public Instruction, Superintendent of; employment of certified school library specialists.

Passed one chamber 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 677 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 9, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Public Instruction, Superintendent of; employment of certified school library specialists. Primary sponsor: Shelly Simonds (Democratic). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 19, 2024): Left in Finance and 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.

Superintendent of Public Instruction; employment of certified school library specialists. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ in the Department of Education at least one certified school library specialist who fulfills several duties enumerated in the bill, including providing leadership and technical assistance with the implementation and use of information literacy skills to support student achievement for local school divisions, Department staff, and other stakeholders and directing the implementation of state and national school library standards and consulting with and providing technical assistance to local school divisions relating to such standards.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Shelly SimondsPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse70
Cia PriceCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse85
Atoosa ReaserCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse27

“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 Finance and Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  3. Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
  4. Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
  5. Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
  6. Impact statement from DPB (HB677E)
  7. Referred to Committee on Education and Health
  8. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  9. VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N)
  10. Read third time and passed House (63-Y 36-N)
  11. Printed as engrossed 24101576D-E
  12. Engrossed by House as amended HB677E

Showing 12 most recent of 28 actions. Full history

Sources

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