2026 Bills in Conference (so far)
In the Virginia General Assembly, sending a bill to conference means that the House of Delegates and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill and will try to find final compromise before it can move forward.
When one chamber amends a bill that originated in the other chamber and the originating chamber does not agree with those amendments, the bill is referred to a conference committee composed of members from both the VA House of Delegates and VA Senate.
Once the conference committee reaches an agreement, a report is sent back to both chambers for a vote.
Below, you will find a few bills that have been posted on the Legislative Information System (LIS) sent to conference with their respective assigned list of conferees. There are several bills that were decided during committee to be sent to a conference, but that are not yet available. More to come!
HB125, patron by Delegate Reaser, provides that a written notice of noncontinuation of a continuing teacher contract by the teacher must be given by June 15 of each year is now heading to conference.
Senate Conferees include:
- Senator Pekarsky
- Senator Craig
- Senator VanVulkenburg
House Conferees include:
- Delegate Reaser
- Delegate McAuliff
- Delegate Tata
HB705, patron by Delegate Hayes, requires
the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board
guidelines for a program of instruction on water safety to be provided as a
part of any health education instruction provided to elementary school
students.
Senate Conferees include:
- Senator Perry
- Senator Pekarsky
- Senator Craig
House Conferees include:
- Delegate Hayes
- Delegate Simonds
- Delegate Kilgore
HB1278, patron by Delegate Reaser, requires each school board to develop, implement, and post in a publicly accessible location on its website a language access plan consisting of policies and procedures designed to ensure meaningful communication with and informational accessibility for limited English proficient (LEP) parents, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.
Senate Conferees include:
- Senator Pekarsky
- Senator VanVulkenburg
- Senator Head
House Conferees include:
- Delegate Reaser
- Delegate Cohen
- Delegate Tata
SB134, patron by Senator Locke, requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain a calculation to be used to provide a cost estimate for funding needed per biennium to address parental demand for the provision of early childhood care and education services.
Senate Conferees include:
- Senator Locke
- Senator Favola
- Senator Pillion
House Conferees include:
TBD
HB30, House Budget Bill conferees include:
- Senator Lucas
- Senator Deeds
- Senator Locke
- Senator Pillion
- Senator Stuart
- Delegate Torian
- Delegate Carr
- Delegate McQuinn
- Delegate Krizek
- Delegate Austin
- Delegate Bloxom
Sofhia Pineda
Government Relations Specialist
Virginia School Boards Association
200 Hansen Road, Suite 2
Charlottesville, VA 22911
800-466-8722 or 434-295-8722 Office
sofhia@vsba.org, www.vsba.org
