Virginia Senate Bill 37 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 16 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-08 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence; parental notification of certain expressions and requests and parental permission for certain plans required; parental care. Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee to (i) as soon as practicable, inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor (a) expresses to any individual who is employed in such school that such minor is experiencing gender incongruence, as defined in the bill, or (b) requests that any such employee participate in social affirmation of such minor's gender incongruence or the transition of such minor to a sex or gender different from the minor's biological sex while at school and (ii) request and receive permission from at least one parent of a minor student enrolled at such school prior to the implementation at such school of any plan concerning any gender incongruence experienced by such minor, including any counseling of such minor at school. Any such plan shall include provision for parental participation to the extent requested by the parent. The bill also clarifies, in the definition of the term "abused or neglected child," that in no event shall referring to and raising the child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex, including related mental health or medical decisions, be considered abuse or neglect.

Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence, parental notification.

Sen. John McGuire [R]

2024-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-08	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
2024-01-16	Senate	Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
2023-12-16	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2023-12-16	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101444D

HB670 (Similar To) 2024-02-13 - Left in Education

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	273.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	100	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB37
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB37+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB37F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0110+SB0037