Virginia Senate Bill 556 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2014 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-01-16 - Incorporated by Education and Health
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Limited public forums for student religious viewpoint expression; school division policy. Requires each school division to adopt a policy to permit a student speaker to express a religious viewpoint at all school events at which a student is permitted to publicly speak. The policy shall declare each such school event to be a limited public forum, provide a neutral method for the selection of student speakers, and require each school principal to provide a disclaimer in advance of each such school event that the school division does not endorse any religious viewpoint that may be expressed by student speakers.

Student religious viewpoint expression; limited public forums, school division policy.

Sen. Richard Black [R]

2014-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-16	Senate	Incorporated by Education and Health
2014-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2014-01-08	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 14101986D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	203.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB556
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB556+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S04V0015+SB0556