Virginia Senate Bill 127 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-08 - Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public school staffing ratios; school counselors; specialized student support positions. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division. The bill also increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students in the local school division. Such specialized student support positions include school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavior analysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions.

School counselors; public school staffing ratios, increases specialized student support positions.

Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg [D]

Sen. Russet Perry [D]

2024-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-08	Senate	Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
2024-01-18	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2024-01-18	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-10	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2024-01-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2024-01-05	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102209D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB127
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB127+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB127F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0025+SB0127
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S05V0282+SB0127