Virginia Code | Chapter 22

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	SB738	Intro Prefile	Public elementary and secondary schools; student Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; student cell phone possession and use policies; development and implementation. Directs each school board to develop and each public element... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-09-18 To Senate Education and Health Committee
VA	HB1548	Intro Prefile	High school graduation requirements; passing score on select questions from U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require, except in the case of a high school student whose ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-09-12 Committee Referral Pending
VA	SB6004	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act established; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Gaming Commerce Regulation Act for the purpose of providing a regulatory and registration scheme for electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth. The bill auth... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-15 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
VA	HB187	Veto	Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	SB104	Veto	Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	SB105	Veto	Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB224	Veto	Public schools; teachers and other relevant personnel; mental health awareness training. Requires each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the applicable school board, employed on a full-time basis to complete mental health awarene... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB962	Veto	Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	SB142	Pass	Public school teachers; licensure requirements; one-year local eligibility license; alternate routes and flexibility. Requires the Board of Education to include in its teacher licensure regulations provisions authorizing each school board, upon recom... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845)
VA	HB498	Veto	School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB536	Veto	Student bullying; definition; characteristics of victim. Adjusts the definition of "bullying" in the context of public education to specify that the real or perceived power imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim that is involved in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB624	Veto	Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB1504	Veto	Board of Education; guidelines on school-connected overdose policies; response and parental notification. Requires the Board of Education to establish guidelines for school-connected overdose response and parental notification policies to aid local s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VA	HB215	Pass	Department of Education; development of Title IX and sexual harassment prevention training modules for students in the ninth and tenth grades. Requires the Department of Education to develop culturally appropriate, age-appropriate, and trauma-informe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805)
VA	HB625	Pass	Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools as an office within the Department for the purpose of supporting the develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
VA	HB398	Veto	Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB738	Pass	Space Force; extension of certain benefits and privileges for persons serving in a branch of the Armed Forces. Amends several provisions of law related to certain benefits and privileges available to persons serving or having served in a branch of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817)
VA	SB448	Veto	Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto
VA	SB608	Pass	Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools as an office within the Department for the purpose of supporting the develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797)
VA	HB571	Veto	Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB615	Pass	Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; purpose and duties; historically underrepresented students. Expands the purpose of the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board to include promoting the partici... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814)
VA	HB603	Pass	Public elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enume... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)
VA	SB235	Veto	Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto
VA	SB225	Enroll Sine Die	School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	SB329	Veto	Compost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB797	Veto	Demonstrated competence for a concealed handgun permit; firearms instructors and safety programs. Requires that any course, class, or training to demonstrate competence with a handgun as required to obtain a concealed handgun permit must include a li... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB790	Pass	Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821)
VA	HB958	Veto	Commission on Civic Education; model guidance on student participation in the work of local school boards. Requires the Commission on Civic Education, in conjunction with such stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to create and provide to each local ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1088	Veto	Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	SB498	Enroll Sine Die	Board of Education; guidelines on school-connected overdose policies; response and parental notification. Requires the Board of Education to establish guidelines for school-connected overdose response and parental notification policies to aid local s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VA	SB582	Pass	Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796)
VA	SB586	Veto	Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Senate sustained Governor's veto
VA	SB54	Pass	Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757)
VA	SB272	Pass	Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766)
VA	HB253	Pass	School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)
VA	HB419	Pass	Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722)
VA	HB1221	Pass	Health education; menstrual education instruction permitted. Permits each school board to provide a program of instruction on menstrual education as a part of any health education instruction offered at such grade level in grades four through eight a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741)
VA	HB1247	Pass	Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743)
VA	SB199	Pass	High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666)
VA	SB707	Pass	Public middle schools and high schools; student organizations; career and technical education organizations permitted. Permits each public middle school and high school to establish career and technical education student organizations, regardless of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776)
VA	HB617	Pass	High school student-athletes; use of name, image, or likeness. Establishes rights, duties, and prohibitions relating to the use of the name, image, or likeness of high school student-athletes that are equivalent to those established in law for colleg... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694)
VA	HB632	Pass	Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642)
VA	HB1024	Pass	Department of Education; Virginia Preservice Training for Child Care Staff course; relevancy review. Requires the Department of Education to review its Virginia Preservice Training for Child Care Staff course for appropriateness based on the age rang... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)
VA	SB352	Pass	Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672)
VA	HB1087	Pass	Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647)
VA	HB731	Pass	Teachers; renewable licenses; requirements; assessments. Requires the Board of Education to eliminate the requirement for any individual to take and receive a passing score on the Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment as a condition of the i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729)
VA	SB627	Pass	Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684)
VA	HB1345	Pass	High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657)
VA	HB1451	Pass	Standards of Learning assessments; expedited retakes; eligibility. Directs the Board of Education to revise its regulations relating to student eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning assessment, with the exception of the wri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612)
VA	SB283	Pass	Free school meals; stakeholder work group; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group to study the estimated impact of offering free school meals to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586)