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HB 131

Virginia House of Delegates bill in Session 2026.

Status: enacted. Latest action: April 6, 2026.

Higher educational institutions, public; reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs, etc.

Bill ID VA-2026-HB-131
Session 2026
Status enacted
Committee Education; Education and Health
House of Delegates enacted 2026-04-06
Summary

Public institutions of higher education; reasonable accommodations for the religious beliefs and practices of individual students. Requires each public institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations, as defined in the bill, for the religious beliefs and practices of individual students with regard to admissions, class attendance, and the scheduling of examinations and work assignments and to provide and describe in the institution's student handbook or an equivalent document and in the institution's faculty handbook or an equivalent document a grievance procedure for any student to seek redress when the student believes that he has been unreasonably denied such reasonable accommodations for his religious beliefs and practices.

Sponsor
Simon
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Actions Timeline
Date Event Detail
2026-01-03 Introduced Bill introduced
2026-04-06 Status enacted
2026-04-06 Latest Action Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074)
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