A special, short meeting of the House Committee on Education on an unspecified 2025 date introduced committee staff, reviewed subcommittee meeting times and public-access procedures for the 2025 legislative session, and adjourned after a motion.

Committee Chair (name not specified in the transcript) opened the meeting, confirmed a quorum and introduced key staff: House Clerk Becky Cottrell, DLS attorney Ryan Brimmer and assistant room clerk Randy Wright. The chair said much of the committee’s work would occur in subcommittees and reviewed the subcommittee schedule for the session.

The chair outlined the subcommittee meeting pattern: the Higher Education subcommittee chaired by Delegate Sewell will meet on Monday mornings immediately after adjournment of the full committee; the K-12 subcommittee, chaired by Vice Chair Delegate Simons, will meet Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. in the same room and likely have an additional 4 p.m. meeting in House Room C during crossover; and the Early Childhood subcommittee chaired by Delegate Converse Fowler will meet Wednesdays immediately after the full committee adjourns. The chair also said the committee had "well over 100 bills" already in full committee and expected as many as about 150 bills to take up in a short period.

On public access and document distribution, the chair reminded members that since 2018 full committee meetings have been webcast live and archived on the Virginia General Assembly website. He said that to enhance transparency, amendments and substitute language offered in committee will be released on IHOD and LIS and will not likely be distributed as paper copies, noting that online access assumes normal technical operations.

The chair also described procedures for missed votes: if a member misses a vote, clerks will attempt to contact that member within a short window to record the vote. He reminded members that a subcommittee docket would meet the next morning at 7:30 a.m. with Delegate Simons, and that there may be a 4 p.m. Tuesday meeting as well.

With no further business, the chair asked for a motion to adjourn. A motion to adjourn was made, seconded, and the committee adjourned after an oral "aye" vote.

The meeting primarily served to organize committee procedures for the early part of the 2025 session; no bills or substantive policy measures were debated or decided at this meeting.