HB2606
Special education due process hearings; dismissal of certain vexatious and repetitive complaints.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 21, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294)
Chief Patron:
Lee Ware (R)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Students with disabilities; due process hearings; certain complaints.
Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations relating to due process hearings for students with disabilities to provide that if a special education due process hearing officer determines that a due process hearing complaint contains substantially the same issues as a previously adjudicated due process complaint evidencing a ... (More) clear pattern of initiating vexatious and repetitive litigation, the hearing officer may dismiss the complaint and report such abuse of the due process hearing system to the Virginia Department of Education. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2025 - House: Presented and ordered printed 25104660D
- 01/13/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2606)
- 01/23/2025 - House: Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 01/23/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/27/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Education with substitute (19-Y 3-N)
- 01/29/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106164D-H1
- 01/30/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2606)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Floor substitute printed 25106606D-H2 (Ware)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Education Substitute rejected
- 02/03/2025 - House: Delegate Ware Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute
- 02/03/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2606)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (68-Y 31-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107372D-S1
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2606)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 95-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/20/2025 - House: House acceded to request
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senators: Pekarsky, VanValkenburg, Pillion
- 02/20/2025 - House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/20/2025 - House: Delegates: Rasoul, McQuinn, Ware
- 02/21/2025 - Amended by conference committee
- 02/21/2025 - House: Conference substitute printed 25107997D-H3
- 02/21/2025 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (77-Y 18-N)
- 02/21/2025 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2606ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2606)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/21/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 294 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/21/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294)
