VA HB837 | 2020 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 6 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 6 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Board of Education; school boards; dress or grooming codes. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct (i) standards for reducing bias and harassment in the enforcement of any code of student conduct and (ii) standards for dress or grooming codes, which the bill defines as any practice, policy, or portion of a code of student conduct adopted by a school board that governs or restricts the attire of any enrolled student. The bill permits any school board to include in its code of student conduct a dress or grooming code. The bill requires any dress or grooming code included in a school board's code of student conduct or otherwise adopted by a school board to (a) permit any student to wear any religiously and ethnically specific or significant head covering or hairstyle, including hijabs, yarmulkes, headwraps, braids, locs, and cornrows; (b) maintain gender neutrality by subjecting any student to the same set of rules and standards regardless of gender; (c) not have a disparate impact on students of a particular gender; (d) be clear, specific, and objective in defining terms, if used; (e) prohibit any school board employee from enforcing the dress or grooming code by direct physical contact with a student or a student's attire; and (f) prohibit any school board employee from requiring a student to undress in front of any other individual, including the enforcing school board employee, to comply with the dress or grooming code.
Title
Dress or grooming codes in schools; school boards may include in its code of student conduct, etc.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2020-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) (Y: 24 N: 15 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 4-N 3-A) (Y: 8 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (81-Y 17-N) (Y: 81 N: 17 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N) (Y: 4 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 4-N 3-A) (Y: 8 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (81-Y 17-N) (Y: 81 N: 17 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N) (Y: 4 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2020-04-06 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) | |
2020-04-06 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/20) | |
2020-03-12 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 | |
2020-03-12 | House | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020 |
2020-03-06 | Senate | Signed by President |
2020-03-06 | House | Signed by Speaker |
2020-03-06 | House | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB837ER) |
2020-03-06 | House | Enrolled |
2020-03-03 | Senate | Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
2020-03-03 | Senate | Read third time |
2020-03-02 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
2020-03-02 | Senate | Read third time |
2020-02-28 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) |
2020-02-27 | Senate | Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 4-N 3-A) |
2020-02-18 | Senate | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
2020-02-10 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
2020-02-10 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed |
2020-02-07 | House | VOTE: Passage (81-Y 17-N) |
2020-02-07 | House | Read third time and passed House (81-Y 17-N) |
2020-02-06 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB837H1 |
2020-02-06 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 20107220D-H1 |
2020-02-06 | House | Read second time |
2020-02-05 | House | Read first time |
2020-02-03 | House | Committee substitute printed 20107220D-H1 |
2020-02-03 | House | Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) |
2020-01-27 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N) |
2020-01-15 | House | Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 |
2020-01-07 | House | Referred to Committee on Education |
2020-01-07 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104462D |
Code Citations
Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
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22 | 1 | 276.01 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
22 | 1 | 279.6 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |