Virginia House Bill 2346 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Passed on March 20 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-03-20 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Yearly school lock-down drills, school safety audits, and school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each school, in its annual school safety audit, to complete a school inspection walk-through using a standardized checklist provided by the Virginia Center for School Safety, which shall incorporate crime prevention through environmental design principles. Each completed walk-through checklist shall be made available to the chief law-enforcement officer of the locality or his designee upon request. The bill requires the local school board to provide copies of each school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plan to the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief emergency medical services official, and the emergency management official of the locality upon request. The bill also requires the division superintendant to establish a school safety audit committee that will review the school safety audits, and requires each school division to designate an emergency manager. The bill finally requires each public school to conduct at least two lock-down drills: one in September and one in January of each school year.

Lock-down drills; every public school is required to have at least two practices per year, etc.

Sen. John Cosgrove [R]	Del. Edward Scott [R]	Del. Luke Torian [D]	Del. Thomas Greason [R]
Del. Margaret Ransone [R]

2013-02-21 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendments (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-15 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 102 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-11 - House - House: Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with substitute (19-Y 1-N) (Y: 19 N: 1 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-20		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)
2013-03-20		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (effective 7/1/13)
2013-03-05	House	Signed by Speaker
2013-03-04	Senate	Signed by President
2013-03-04	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2346ER)
2013-03-04	House	Enrolled
2013-02-21	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N)
2013-02-21	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 13105398D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
2013-02-21	House	Placed on Calendar
2013-02-21	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
2013-02-21	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2346S1
2013-02-21	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 13105398D-S1
2013-02-21	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2013-02-21	Senate	Read third time
2013-02-21	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2013-02-20	Senate	Committee substitute printed 13105398D-S1
2013-02-20	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2013-02-18	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2013-02-18	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2013-02-15	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2013-02-15	House	Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N)
2013-02-14	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2346H1
2013-02-14	House	Committee substitute agreed to 13105124D-H1
2013-02-14	House	Read second time
2013-02-13	House	Read first time
2013-02-11	House	Committee substitute printed 13105124D-H1
2013-02-11	House	Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with substitute (19-Y 1-N)
2013-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
2013-02-08	House	Presented and ordered printed 13104831D
2013-02-08	House	Introduced at the request of Governor

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	137.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	279.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB2346
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB2346+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB2346H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB2346S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB2346ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+CHAP0609+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+H15V0103+HB2346
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+HV0958+HB2346
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S04V0224+HB2346
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0816HB2346+HB2346
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0817HB2346+HB2346
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+HV1240+HB2346