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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HJ 67: Fair school funding reform; joint committee of various House and Senate committees to study.

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

HJ 67 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 10, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Fair school funding reform; joint committee of various House and Senate committees to study. Primary sponsor: Shelly Simonds (Democratic). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 19, 2024): Left in Finance and Appropriations.

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Official summary

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

Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study fair school funding reform; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and three members of the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study fair school funding reform by, among other things, utilizing the recommendations from the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission in its July 2023 report, "Virginia's K-12 Funding Formula," and any stakeholder input and feedback received by the joint committee to produce and submit to the Division of Legislative Automated Services by the first day of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly an executive summary of its findings and recommendations.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Shelly SimondsPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse70
Rip SullivanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse6
Vivian WattsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse14

“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. Committee substitute printed 24108716D-S1
  5. Reported from Rules with substitute
  6. Referred to Committee on Rules
  7. Reading waived (on 1st reading)
  8. VOTE: Block vote adoption (97-Y 0-N)
  9. AAgreed to by House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
  10. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HJ67H1
  11. Committee substitute agreed to 24107115D-H1
  12. Taken up

Showing 12 most recent of 25 actions. Full history

Sources

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