2026 SESSION

INTRODUCED

26103091D

HOUSE BILL NO. 290

Offered January 14, 2026

Prefiled January 9, 2026

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-264.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to false statements as to school division or attendance zone residency; penalty.

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Patrons—Anderson, Carnegie, Clark and Schmidt

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Referred to Committee on Education

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22.1-264.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22.1-264.1. False statements as to school division or attendance zone residency; civil penalty.

Any person who knowingly makes a false statement concerning the residency of a child, as determined by § 22.1-3, in a particular school division or school attendance zone, for the purposes of (i) avoiding the tuition charges authorized by § 22.1-5 or (ii) enrollment in a school outside the attendance zone in which the student resides, shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $250 and shall be liable to the school division in which the child was enrolled as a result of such false statements for tuition charges, pursuant to § 22.1-5, for the time the student was enrolled in such school division.