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VAHB131PassDepartment of Education; learning needs dashboard. Requires the Department of Education to continue to maintain until July 1, 2029, a learning needs dashboard that includes an interactive bar chart feature to compare annual pass rates and an interact...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB121PassBoard of Education; health education Standards of Learning; severe allergic reaction awareness training. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for health education for grade nine and grade 10 an in-person or online s...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 171 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB66Enroll
75%
Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Requires every public school to hold fire drills during the school session in accordance with the requirements of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB54Enroll
75%
Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB98Enroll
75%
Public secondary schools; satisfaction of physical education requirements; participation in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Permits each local school board to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps as fulfillment...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB355Enroll
75%
School boards; employment verification; timing. Requires each school board to respond within 10 working days of receiving a request for employment verification of a former employee of the school board when such verification is sought by another schoo...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB134Enroll
75%
Department of Education; development of education materials relating to risks of opioids. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with such stakeholders and experts as it deems necessary or appropriate, to develop and submit to the Chai...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB215Enroll
75%
Department of Education; development of Title IX and sexual harassment prevention training modules for students in the ninth and tenth grades. Requires the Department of Education to develop culturally appropriate, age-appropriate, and trauma-informe...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB105Enroll
75%
Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB224Enroll
75%
Public schools; teachers and other relevant personnel; mental health awareness training. Requires each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the applicable school board, employed on a full-time basis to complete mental health awarene...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB398Enroll
75%
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB419Enroll
75%
Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB272Enroll
75%
Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB962Enroll
75%
Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia.
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1221Enroll
75%
Health education; menstrual education instruction permitted. Permits each school board to provide a program of instruction on menstrual education as a part of any health education instruction offered at such grade level in grades four through eight a...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1247Enroll
75%
Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB583Enroll
75%
Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the shar...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB441Enroll
75%
School boards; employment verification; timing. Requires each school board to respond within 10 working days of receiving a request for employment verification of a former employee of the school board when such verification is sought by another schoo...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB617Enroll
75%
High school student-athletes; use of name, image, or likeness. Establishes rights, duties, and prohibitions relating to the use of the name, image, or likeness of high school student-athletes that are equivalent to those established in law for colleg...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB625Enroll
75%
Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education; Community School Development and Implementation Planning Grant; state goal. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB626Enroll
75%
Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB624Enroll
75%
Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB632Enroll
75%
Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB790Enroll
75%
Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB329VetoCompost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB797VetoDemonstrated competence for a concealed handgun permit; firearms instructors and safety programs. Requires that any course, class, or training to demonstrate competence with a handgun as required to obtain a concealed handgun permit must include a li...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB830Enroll
75%
Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of i...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB732Enroll
75%
Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to dev...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB958Enroll
75%
Commission on Civic Education; model guidance on student participation in the work of local school boards. Requires the Commission on Civic Education, in conjunction with such stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to create and provide to each local ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB314Enroll
75%
Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of i...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB352Enroll
75%
Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1089Enroll
75%
Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1087Enroll
75%
Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1088Enroll
75%
Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate cha...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1231Enroll
75%
Department of Education; communication to local school boards; JROTC; legal obligations. Requires the Department of Education to notify each school board of any obligation imposed on the school board or any public school in the local school division ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB582Enroll
75%
Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB586Enroll
75%
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB627Enroll
75%
Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1345Enroll
75%
High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1451Enroll
75%
Standards of Learning assessments; expedited retakes; eligibility. Directs the Board of Education to revise its regulations relating to student eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning assessment, with the exception of the wri...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1477Enroll
75%
Public schools; instructional time; competency-based education. Requires the Board of Education to provide local school boards maximum flexibility to waive existing instructional clock hour requirements by developing alternative instructional time mo...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1504Enroll
75%
Board of Education; guidelines on school-connected overdose policies; response and parental notification. Requires the Board of Education to establish guidelines for school-connected overdose response and parental notification policies to aid local s...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB5PassSTEM+C Competition Team Grant Program established. Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing (STEM+C) Competition Team Grant Program to encourage interest in STEM+C-related subject areas and support STEM+C-related e...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 151 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB719PassPublic high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or hea...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 144 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB1075PassDolly Parton's Imagination Library of Virginia Program established. Establishes Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Virginia Program for the purpose of promoting a comprehensive statewide initiative for encouraging preschool-age children to develop...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 147 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB571VetoPolicies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB60Enroll
75%
Department of Education; guidelines for individualized education program teams relating to certain age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction; availability and posting. Requires the Department of Education to make available to each s...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB358Enroll
75%
Voluntarily registered family day homes; safe sleep practices; checklist. Requires the Department of Education to update its Voluntary Registration Health and Safety Checklist for any voluntarily registered family day home to include safe sleep pract...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB168Enroll
75%
Department of Education; resource document on supports and services for homeless students. Requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board a resource document containing guidance and best practices for providin...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB462Enroll
75%
School Construction Program and Fund; career and technical education programs eligible. Clarifies that, for the purposes of eligibility to receive grants through the School Construction Fund and Program, "local school division" includes any joint or ...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
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