Bill Text: VA HB2733 | 2025 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Students; statewide mobile application for reporting of suspicious activity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-04 - Left in Appropriations [HB2733 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2025-HB2733-Comm_Sub.html
2025 SESSION
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE
25106388D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2733
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Education
on January 29, 2025)
(Patrons Prior to Substitute—Delegates Higgins and Obenshain [HB 2765])
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-23.6, relating to Department of Education; statewide mobile application for student reporting of suspicious activity.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-23.6 as follows:
§ 22.1-23.6. Statewide mobile application for student reporting of suspicious activity.
With such funds as may be appropriated for such purpose pursuant to the general appropriation act or provided from any other source, the Department, alone or in partnership with another state agency or a nonprofit organization, or a combination thereof, shall develop or procure a multiplatform compatible mobile application that is made available at no cost to each public elementary and secondary school student and that permits each such student to report suspicious activity, including by attaching screenshots, other photographs, and videos, to the appropriate school and local law-enforcement officials for analysis and potential response. The Department shall assist each school board to coordinate student awareness of and access to such mobile application, but no school board shall bear any cost or additional administrative burden relating to such mobile application.
