Virginia House Bill 2104 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public elementary and secondary schools; dress or grooming codes. Requires any dress or grooming code, which the bill defines as any practice, policy, or portion of a code of student conduct adopted by a school board that governs or restricts the attire of any enrolled student, to (i) permit any student to wear any religiously, ethnically, or culturally specific or significant head covering or hairstyle, including hijabs, yarmulkes, headwraps, braids, dreadlocks, and cornrows; (ii) maintain gender neutrality by subjecting any student to the same set of rules and standards regardless of gender; (iii) be clear, specific, and objective and avoid any subjective term or standard such as "distracting," "provocative," or "inappropriate"; (iv) prohibit any school board employee from enforcing the dress or grooming code by direct physical contact with a student or a student's attire; and (v) prohibit any school board employee from requiring a student to undress in front of any other individual, including the enforcing school board employee, to comply with the dress or grooming code. The bill requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct standards for dress or grooming codes.

Public elementary and secondary schools; dress or grooming codes.

Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Del. Betsy Carr [D]
Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Debra Rodman [D]	Sen. Danica Roem [D]
Del. Marcus Simon [D]

2019-01-25 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 5-N) (Y: 4 N: 5 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Education
2019-01-25	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (4-Y 5-N)
2019-01-18	House	Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103700D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	276.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	279.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2104
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2104+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0902V0020+HB2104