Virginia House Bill 2382 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
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]

Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press. Declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public elementary or secondary school or public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom of speech and the press in school-sponsored media, including determining the news, opinion, feature, and advertising content of school-sponsored media, regardless of whether the media is supported financially by the school board, supported through the use of school facilities in the school division, or produced in conjunction with a course or class in which the student is enrolled. The bill defines "school-sponsored media" as any material that is prepared, substantially written, published, or broadcast by a student journalist at a public elementary or secondary school or public institution of higher education under the direction of a student media adviser and distributed or generally made available to members of the student body.

Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press.

Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Sen. Danica Roem [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Michael Mullin [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. David Reid [D]	Del. Debra Rodman [D]
Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Richard Sullivan [D]

2019-01-28 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (3-Y 5-N) (Y: 3 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Education
2019-01-28	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (3-Y 5-N)
2019-01-18	House	Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103929D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	203.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	401.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2382
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2382+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0901V0021+HB2382