At the Statehouse: 2026 Priority Public Education and Constitutional Amendment Bills

The 2026 General Assembly (GA) session convened on Wednesday, January 14, 2026. The calendar for the session is available at this link. 

2026 Priority Public Education Bills 

Already some education bills are advancing to the respective chamber floors. The progress of 4 Public Education’s priority bills, which are listed below, can be followed at this link.

Please click on the "Calls to Action", where available in the bill description, to ask elected representatives to vote for the priority bills below. We thank you for encouraging our legislators to vote for these bills: 

• HB92 Equity in public school funding and staffing; at-risk Program established, standards of quality. Sam Rasoul is the Chief Patron. Please answer this Call to Action to ask the House Education Committee members to vote for this bill that will provide equity in public school funding for schools with at-risk students. 

• HB199 Through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2028 school years permitted. Sam Rasoul is the Chief Patron. Please answer this Call to Action to ask your delegate to vote for this bill that will extend the period of growth assessment to the 2027 to 2028 School Year. 

• HB206 College partnership laboratory schools; transparency. Karen Keys-Gamarra is the Chief Patron. Please answer this Call to Action to ask your delegate to vote for this bill that will improve transparency in College partnership laboratory schools.

• HB279 Teachers; timeline and process for increasing salaries to at least national average. Nadarius E. Clark is the Chief Patron. Please answer this Call to Action to increase the salaries of teachers and support staff to at least the national average.

• SB33 Programs for at-risk students; permissible uses of funding. Barbara E. Favola the Chief Patron. Please answer this Call to Action to ask the Senate Education and Health Committee to help at-risk students succeed in school by addressing health issues.

• SB66 Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in all counties and cities to support schools. Jeremy McPike is the Chief Patron. No Call to Action available. 

• SB90 Equity in public school funding and staffing; at-risk Program established, standards of quality. Barbara Favola is Chief Patron. Please answer this Call to Action to ask the Senate Education and Health Committee members to vote for this bill that will provide equity in public school funding for schools with at-risk students. 

Constitutional Amendment Bills

The seven constitutional amendment bills have passed in both chambers in consecutive years, with a House of Delegates election between those General Assembly sessions, so these bills will now each go to a vote in 2026 to determine whether Virginia will change the Virginia Constitution with these amendments:

• HJ1 and SJ1 Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom.  This amendment would provide that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be, directly or indirectly, denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justified by a compelling state interest, as defined in the amendment, and achieved by the least restrictive means. 

• HJ2 and SJ2 Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters, right to vote, persons not entitled to vote.  This amendment would provide that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution shall have the fundamental right to vote in the Commonwealth and that such right shall not be abridged by law, except for persons who have been convicted of a felony and persons who have been adjudicated to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting. 

• HJ3 and SJ3 Constitutional amendment; marriage between two adult persons; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry.  This amendment repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related provisions that are no longer valid as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. 

• HJ4 Constitutional amendment; apportionment, congress districts, limited authority of the GA to modify.  Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia related to the establishment of congressional districts. The amendment provides explicit authority for the General Assembly to modify one or more congressional districts, outside of the standard decennial redistricting cycle, in the event that any other state conducts a redistricting of the state's congressional districts outside of the standard decennial redistricting cycle or for any purpose other than complying with a state or federal court order to remedy an unlawful or unconstitutional district map.