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Committee continues teacher-compact debate, reports school-psychologist compact
Summary
Delegates discussed interstate compacts to ease licensure portability for teachers and school psychologists; members raised questions about overlap with existing reciprocity law and provisional licensure pathways, and moved to continue the teacher compact (HB 253) to the 2027 session while recommending reporting for the school-psychologist compact (HB 255).
Delegate Glass explained two interstate compacts: HB 253 (teacher compact) and HB 255 (school-psychologist compact). Compacts allow license mobility across member states once enacted by the required number of states; patrons described compacts as tools to help military families and other transient educators enter classrooms quickly while still meeting Virginia certification timelines.
Committee members and counsel discussed existing law that already provides for universal licensure by reciprocity under specified conditions, and witnesses cautioned there may be limited additional uptake from the teacher compact. Concerns included potential proliferation of provisional pathways and the administrative complexity of multiple licensure tracks.
After deliberation the committee moved to continue the teacher-compact bill until the 2027 session to allow more review and possible substitute language, while voting to recommend reporting HB 255 (school-psychologist compact) by a recorded voice vote (announced as 5–0).
