# Virginia HB647: Teaching experience; regulations governing allowable credit. Virginia HB647, Teaching experience; regulations governing allowable credit., is a 2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Hillary Pugh Kent (Republican); status signed, last action 2026-04-13 (Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-12). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB647-2026 - As of: 2026-10-12 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Virginia HB647 - State: Virginia - Session: 2026 Regular Session - Title: Teaching experience; regulations governing allowable credit. - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2026-01-13 - Last action: 2026-04-13, Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) - Sponsor: Hillary Pugh Kent (Republican) - Cosponsors: 0 - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 8 (221 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 1 ## Summary Board of Education; Regulations Governing Allowable Credit for Teaching Experience; certain credit substitution allowance permitted. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to provide that teachers in the field of career and technical education, where the licensure requirement calls for occupational work experience beyond the apprenticeship level, may be allowed salary placement credit for one year of teaching experience for each one or two years of work experience. The bill satisfies the reenactment requirement of Chapter 677 of the Acts of Assembly of 2025. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - More salary credit for CTE teachers: benefit, medium. Virginia changes teacher salary placement rules. Career and technical education teachers whose license requires work beyond apprenticeship can count that work as teaching time. For salary placement, you can get 1 year of teaching credit for each 1 year of qualifying work, or 1 year for every 2 year… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Hillary Pugh Kent (Republican), House ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-03-02 | Senate | Passed Senate Block Vote | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-02-27 | Senate | Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote) | pass | 0 | 0 | | | 2026-02-27 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) | pass | 37 | 0 | | | 2026-02-26 | Senate | Reported from Education and Health | pass | 15 | 0 | | | 2026-02-10 | House | Read third time and passed House Block Vote | pass | 98 | 0 | | | 2026-02-04 | House | Reported from Education with amendment(s) | pass | 21 | 0 | | | 2026-02-03 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting | pass | 10 | 0 | | | 2026-01-27 | House | Referred from General Laws and referred to Education (Voice Vote) | pass | 0 | 0 | | ## Actions (32) - 2026-04-13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) (Governor) - 2026-04-13: Approved by Governor-Chapter 802 (effective 7/1/2026) (Governor) - 2026-03-10: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 (Governor) - 2026-03-10: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 (House) - 2026-03-06: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB647) (House) - 2026-03-06: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB647ER) (House) - 2026-03-06: Enrolled (House) - 2026-03-06: Signed by President (Senate) - 2026-03-06: Signed by Speaker (House) - 2026-03-02: Passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) (Senate) - 2026-03-02: Read third time (Senate) - 2026-02-27: Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote) (Senate) - 2026-02-27: Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A) (Senate) - 2026-02-27: Rules suspended (Senate) - 2026-02-26: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Senate) - 2026-02-19: Assigned Education sub: Public Education (Senate) - 2026-02-11: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB647) (House) - 2026-02-11: Referred to Committee on Education and Health (Senate) - 2026-02-11: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (Senate) - 2026-02-10: Read third time and passed House Block Vote (98-Y 0-N 0-A) (House) - 2026-02-09: Engrossed by House as amended (House) - 2026-02-09: committee amendment agreed to (House) - 2026-02-09: Read second time (House) - 2026-02-06: Read first time (House) - 2026-02-04: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) (House) - 2026-02-03: House committee offered (House) - 2026-02-03: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) (House) - 2026-01-30: Assigned HED sub: K-12 Subcommittee (House) - 2026-01-29: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB647) (House) - 2026-01-27: Referred from General Laws and referred to Education (Voice Vote) (House) - 2026-01-13: Referred to Committee on General Laws (House) - 2026-01-13: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102678D (House) ## Bill text - Chaptered, 2026-04-13: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1222711.HTML), [PDF](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1222710.PDF) - Enrolled, 2026-03-06: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194166.HTML), [PDF](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194165.PDF) - Engrossed, 2026-02-09: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1127263.HTML), [PDF](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1127262.PDF) - Amendment, 2026-02-04: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1116360.HTML) - Amendment, 2026-02-03: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1115584.HTML) - Introduced, 2026-01-13: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1085350.HTML), [PDF](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1085349.PDF) ## Related bills - HB5: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties. (signed) - SB199: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties. (signed) - HB95: Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement. (signed) - HB1393: Electric utilities; pilot program for energy assistance and weatherization for certain individuals. (signed) - HB834: Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fire or casualty damage, termination by landlord. (signed) - HB675: Protection of employees; coercion or threat based on immigration status, civil penalty. (signed) ## Sources - [Chaptered (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1222711.HTML) - [Chaptered (PDF)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1222710.PDF) - [Enrolled (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194166.HTML) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194165.PDF) - [Engrossed (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1127263.HTML) - [Engrossed (PDF)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1127262.PDF) - [Amendment (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1116360.HTML) - [Amendment (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1115584.HTML) - [Introduced (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1085350.HTML) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1085349.PDF) ## Related - [HB5: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB5-2026) - [SB199: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-SB199-2026) - [HB95: Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB95-2026) - [HB1393: Electric utilities; pilot program for energy assistance and weatherization for…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB1393-2026) - [HB834: Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fire or casualty damage, terminat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB834-2026) - [HB675: Protection of employees; coercion or threat based on immigration status, civil…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB675-2026) - [Virginia bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/virginia/bills) - [Virginia state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/virginia) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB647-2026 (as of 2026-10-12).