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HB 461 — Special education; certain educational settings, student age range restriction.

VA 20261 session

Special education; student age range restrictions in educational settings. Prohibits any student with a disability in grades kindergarten through six from being regularly assigned to any educational setting, including any specialized educational setting, in which the maximum age range exceeds four years unless the student's individualized education program (IEP) team determines that an exception is appropriate and justifies such exception in the student's IEP. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.

Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter

Sponsors (2)
Action timeline (47)
  1. · house · H4020 —
  2. · house · H0901 —
  3. · house · H8500 —
  4. · house · H0912 —
  5. · house · H8120 —
  6. · house · H0917 —
  7. · house · H8122 —
  8. · house · H0908 —
  9. · house · H4640 —
  10. · house · H8500 —
  11. · house · H4110 —
  12. · house · H4120 —
  13. · house · H4410 —
  14. · house · H4601 —
  15. · house · H5000 —
  16. · senate · S4140 —
  17. · senate · S0401 —
  18. · senate · S0412 —
  19. · senate · S8120 —
  20. · senate · S0406 —
  21. · senate · S4150 —
  22. · senate · S4145 —
  23. · senate · S4160 —
  24. · senate · S4160 —
  25. · senate · S4130 —
  26. · senate · S4160 —
  27. · senate · S4130 —
  28. · senate · S4130 —
  29. · senate · S4130 —
  30. · senate · S4210 —
  31. · senate · S4602 —
  32. · senate · S5020 —
  33. · house · H5430 —
  34. · house · H5610 —
  35. · house · H5601 —
  36. · senate · S5620 —
  37. · house · H8500 —
  38. · house · H7010 —
  39. · G7010 —
  40. · house · H7010 —
  41. · G7010 —
  42. · house · H5620 —
  43. · house · H7010 —
  44. · G7010 —
  45. · G7050 —
  46. · G7050 —
  47. · G9998 —
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Who matters on this bill

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Laura Jane Cohen (D, state_lower VA)sponsor0—5
2Virgil Thornton (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor0—1
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Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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