Virginia House Bill 485

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-07 - Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

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 licensed, provisionally licensed, or unlicensed are subject to the requirements in existing law to undergo a criminal history records check and a search of the registry of founded complaints of child abuse and neglect and to disclose certain criminal history information at the employment application stage and upon arrest. The bill provides that in the event that any school board fails or refuses to perform its duty to require any employee to undergo a criminal history records check as set forth in relevant law, each individual member of such board is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and his position on such school board shall be deemed vacant.

School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications, penalty for noncompliance.

Del. Thomas Garrett [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-07	House	Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
2024-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote
2024-01-19	House	Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
2024-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2024-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101308D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	296.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	296.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	296.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB485
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB485+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24105403D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB485F122+PDF