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VA HB 1473

died on adjournment

Higher educational institutions, public; restrictions on student speech, limitations.

Virginia · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Public institutions of higher education; students and campus; restrictions on student speech; limitations. Clarifies the requirements for and limitations on the ability of a public institution of higher education to impose restrictions on the time, place, or manner of student speech that occurs in outdoor areas of the institution's campus and is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States by (i) clarifying the criteria for demonstrating that the restriction is permissible; (ii) prohibiting any public institution of higher education from imposing certain restrictions, punishments, policies, or restraints designed to restrict student speech in ways that violate the First Amendment rights of students, faculty, and staff; and (iii) requiring any public institution of higher education that deems any student speech or assembly unlawful and imposes a restriction on the time, place, or manner of such speech to submit to the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education within 45 days of imposing such restriction a report detailing the justification for such restriction, demonstrating how the restriction satisfies the criteria required pursuant to applicable law and the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Introduced
2026-01-23
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-02-11 — Continued to next session in Education (Voice Vote)
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Charlie Schmidtprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-23

    Presented and ordered printed 26103873D

    introduction

  2. 2026-01-23

    Referred to Committee on Education

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-02-05

    Assigned HED sub: Higher Education

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-02-06

    Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1473)

  5. 2026-02-09

    House subcommittee offered

  6. 2026-02-09

    Subcommittee recommends continuing to (Voice Vote)

  7. 2026-02-11

    Continued to next session in Education (Voice Vote)

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Related bills

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Official source

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1473

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