2026 SESSION

SENATE SUBSTITUTE

26107644D

SENATE BILL NO. 757

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations

on February 10, 2026)

(Patron Prior to Substitute—Senator Srinivasan)

A BILL to direct the Board of Education to assess the feasibility and most appropriate manner to establish a Virginia African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous Education Advisory Board; report.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Board of Education (the Board) is directed to assess the feasibility and most appropriate manner to establish a Virginia African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous Education Advisory Board to advise the Governor and the General Assembly on the current ways that African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous history is described in the relevant Standards of Learning and associated curriculum frameworks; how that content is taught in classrooms; and strategies to develop African American history and social studies elective courses, Asian American and Pacific Islander history and social studies elective courses, Latino history and social studies elective courses, and Indigenous history and social studies elective courses. The Board shall assess and recommend a membership structure, advisory powers and duties, and implementation strategies of such an advisory board. The Board shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education by November 1, 2026.