Youngkin signs bill codifying school mask opt-out, likely ending state's mask war

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill into law Wednesday codifying his controversial executive order allowing parents to opt their children out of school mask mandates.

The new law likely spells the end of the commonwealth’s mask wars, which have pitted school districts that refused to lift mandates against parents who had sought to take advantage of an executive order Youngkin had signed on his first day in office allowing them to opt their children out of school mask mandates.