Virginia Senate Bill 1303

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 3 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-02-11 - Referred from Health and Human Services and referred to Education (Voice Vote)
Pending: House Education Committee
Hearing: Feb 17 @ 8:00 am in House Committee Room A - 008
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Public elementary and secondary schools; diabetes medical care and management in public schools; policies, procedures, and requirements. The bill makes several modifications relating to the provision of medical care and management for students diagnosed as having diabetes in public schools, including (i) requiring the parent of any student who is diagnosed as having diabetes and for whom he seeks to receive or be provided certain diabetes care and management services in a school setting to submit to the school principal and a school nurse a diabetes medical management plan (DMMP); (ii) requiring each school board to permit any student diagnosed with diabetes, upon parental consent and pursuant to his prescriber's approval provided as a part of his DMMP, to (a) carry with him at all times and use whenever necessary certain diabetes care and management supplies and equipment and (b) independently provide certain diabetes care and management services at any time in a school setting; (iii) requiring the Board of Education and the Department of Health to approve and each school board to require certain employees of the school board to complete level one, level two, or level three diabetes care and management training in accordance with the provisions of the bill; (iv) expanding the diabetes care and management services that certain employees of a school board may provide or assist a student in providing; and (v) permitting prescribers to issue an order as a part of a student's DMMP authorizing any employee of the school board who is designated as level three trained diabetes personnel to, when no employee set forth in clause (iv) is physically present and upon parental consent, provide or assist in the provision of certain diabetes care and management services. The bill contains provisions directing the Board of Education and Department of Health to promulgate or amend any regulations as necessary in accordance with the bill.

Public elementary and secondary schools; diabetes medical care and management in public schools.

Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]

2025-02-04 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 3-N 1-A) (Y: 36 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-31 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-30 - Senate - Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 2-N 3-A) (Y: 10 N: 2 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-11	House	Referred from Health and Human Services and referred to Education (Voice Vote)
2025-02-07	House	Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
2025-02-07	House	Read first time
2025-02-07	House	Placed on Calendar
2025-02-04	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 3-N 1-A)
2025-02-03	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2025-01-31	Senate	Passed by for the day
2025-01-31	Senate	Rules suspended
2025-01-31	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
2025-01-30	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 2-N 3-A)
2025-01-30	Senate	Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1303)
2025-01-20	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2025-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2025-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101861D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1303
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1303/text/SB1303
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1303/text/SB1303SC1
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1303/text/SB1303HC1
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1303/text/SB1303AHC1
Supplement	https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1034757.PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/vote-details/SB1303/20251/S04V1030
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/vote-details/SB1303/20251/SV243
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/vote-details/SB1303/20251/SV305