| VA | HB498 | Enroll
75% | School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | SB225 | Enroll
75% | School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024 |
| VA | HB958 | Veto | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB253 | Pass | School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 689 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1221 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 741 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB919 | Pass | School boards; model memorandum of understanding; partnerships with certain mental health services providers; provision and expansion of virtual mental health services. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| VA | HB937 | Pass | Student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses. States that the intent of the General Assembly is that school boards encourage the implementation of innovative low-cost or no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| VA | SB441 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| VA | HB355 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| VA | HB1039 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon; school board policies; donations. Permits any local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of undesignated na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| VA | HB134 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| VA | SB726 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| VA | HB732 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| VA | HB599 | Pass | School boards; unexpended local funds; capital reserve fund permitted. Permits any school board, with the concurrence of the local governing body, to establish a capital reserve fund as a savings account into which it exclusively deposits the local o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| VA | HB1231 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| VA | HB1076 | Pass | Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2026 school years. Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2026 school years, assessments as alternatives to the throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| VA | SB435 | Pass | Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system; alternatives during 2024-2026 school years. Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2026 school years, assessments as alternatives to the throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122) |
| VA | HB979 | Engross
50% | School board duties; appointment and employment of division superintendents; oversight. Requires each school board to appoint, employ, and provide oversight for a division superintendent and provides that nothing in the Code of Virginia or the regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB28 | Engross
50% | School boards; powers and duties; policies regarding cell phones and other handheld communication devices. Permits each school board to develop and implement a policy to prohibit the possession or use of cell phones and other handheld communication d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB444 | Engross
50% | School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB442 | Engross
50% | Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school or any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB842 | Engross
50% | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB963 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; survey; excess food donation; best practices. Requires the Department of Education to survey each school board to determine (i) whether it has an existing policy or practice relating to the donation of excess food, as that te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB659 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board guidance on best practices relating to open school enrollment, including on several to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB83 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive community colleges and school boards; dual enrollment agreements; parameters. Requires dual enrollment agreements between comprehensive community colleges and school boards to permit any student to complete an associate degree, the Pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB868 | Intro
25% | Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any elementary or secondary school or school board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1148 | Engross
50% | School boards; employment of counsel. Clarifies that any school board, whether elected or appointed, may employ the attorney for the Commonwealth or other counsel to advise it concerning any legal matter or to represent it, any member thereof, or any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (49-Y 50-N) |
| VA | HB1219 | Intro
25% | School boards; school resource officers; employment; participation in development and review of school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each school board to (i) seek, to the maximum extent practicable, to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1230 | Intro
25% | Certain school board employees; possession of firearms on school property. Permits any school board to authorize any school board employee to possess a firearm on school property, in addition to those individuals expressly authorized to possess such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB936 | Intro
25% | Public school buildings; indoor air quality standards. Establishes several enumerated requirements for school boards to ensure indoor air quality in each public school building in the local school division, including (i) identifying a designated indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1046 | Intro
25% | School boards; parental notification of certain threats, behavior, and unlawful acts; panic alarms. Requires, within four hours of receiving notification of (i) a preliminary determination by the threat assessment team that a student poses a threat o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1528 | Intro
25% | Celeste's Law; school boards; bathroom check policy required. Requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that requires an employee in each public elementary and secondary school, including any school resource officer or any school secur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1153 | Engross
50% | Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. Under current law, such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N) |
| VA | SB468 | Intro
25% | Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1384 | Intro
25% | School boards; teachers; terms of employment; employment verification; requirement. Requires each school board to provide written verification of employment within 10 days of receipt of any request for employment verification from a former employee o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB485 | Intro
25% | School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB582 | Intro
25% | Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB431 | Intro
25% | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives; requirements. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1385 | Intro
25% | School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Requires the clerk of any court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1033 | Intro
25% | Cost of competing adjustment; eligibility; certain school boards. Provides that the Accomack County School Board and the Northampton County School Board are eligible to receive the cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1029 | Intro
25% | Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB347 | Intro
25% | School board employees; civil cause of action against principals, division superintendents, and school boards for workplace injuries. Permits any school board employee who suffers bodily injury in the course of his employment on school board property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB380 | Intro
25% | School board policies; alternative educational opportunities. Requires each school board to create a process allowing a qualified student, as defined in the bill, to access funding set aside for alternative educational opportunities, as defined in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB271 | Intro
25% | Public secondary schools; naloxone 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 de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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