Virginia Senate Bill 178 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-02-03 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public school teachers; probationary term of service, grounds for dismissal, and dismissal hearings. Permits each school board to extend for up to two additional years the three-year probationary term of service that is required for each teacher in the school division before the issuance of a continuing contract and prohibits each school board from reemploying a teacher whose performance evaluation during such probationary period is not satisfactory. The bill provides that, for the purpose of the dismissal of a teacher for cause, the term "incompetency" may be construed to include consistent failure to meet the endorsement requirements for the position or one or more unsatisfactory performance evaluations. The bill also eliminates the option for a school board to conduct a teacher dismissal hearing before a three-member fact-finding panel, requires each such hearing to be set no later than 15 days after the request for the hearing, and reduces from 10 days to five days the minimum period of advance written notice to the teacher of the time and place of such hearing.

Public school teachers; probationary term of service, grounds for dismissal, and dismissal hearings.

Sen. Mark Peake [R]

2022-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N) (Y: 8 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-03	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N)
2022-01-19	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2022-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103200D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	303	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	307	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	311	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	313	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB178
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB178+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB178F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S04V0128+SB0178