| VA | SB738 | Engross
50% | 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 elementary and secondary school to implement age-appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Conference substitute printed 25107823D-S2 |
| VA | HB1548 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB445 | Intro
25% | Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local school board to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs as a tea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB440 | Intro
25% | Employment of school protection officers in public schools. Permits any local law-enforcement agency to employ in any public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, pursuant to an agreement with the local school board, a school p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB96 | Intro
25% | Special education; Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program (the Pilot Program), to be developed and administered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB360 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; duties; fixed and actual school staffing ratios. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially calculate, compare, and report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly the differences b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB677 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; employment of certified school library specialists. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ in the Department of Education at least one certified school library specialist who fulfills several...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB431 | Intro
25% | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives; requirements. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB518 | Intro
25% | Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB842 | Engross
50% | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB675 | Engross
50% | Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in complian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB351 | Intro
25% | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB170 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB395 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student athletes; pre-participation mental health assessment required. Provides that no public elementary or secondary school student is permitted to be a participant on or try out for any school athletic team...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB72 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB619 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1375 | Engross
50% | Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. Provides that any locality wishing to participate in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) must submit a proposal by May 15 of each year identifying a lead VPI agency responsible for de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB408 | Intro
25% | Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Education to periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorized child enrollm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB485 | Intro
25% | School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB319 | Intro
25% | Firearms instructors and safety programs; National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association. Removes references to the National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the United States Concealed Carry Association from the Code that al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB328 | Intro
25% | Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact. Enters the Commonwealth into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, the purpose of which is to facilitate the mobility of teachers across the member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through a new pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB41 | Intro
25% | Standards of Learning; programs of instruction; civics education; instruction on local government. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for Virginia and United States Government for grade 12 and requires each school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB386 | Intro
25% | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB502 | Intro
25% | Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB978 | Intro
25% | Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB500 | Intro
25% | Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments; development and administration of assessments; assessments in languages other than English; requirements. Requires the Board of Education to develop all Standards of Learning assessments using ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB563 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB573 | Intro
25% | Student safety and discipline; certain reports to school principals and division superintendents; form and scope. Requires local law-enforcement authorities to prepare in writing and provide to the principal or his designee and the division superinte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB372 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; Child Care Implementation and Substitute Employee Pool Grant Program established. Requires the Department of Education, with such funds as may be appropriated for such purpose pursuant to the general appropriation act, to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB332 | Engross
50% | Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill also requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB181 | Intro
25% | Public school staffing ratios; school counselors. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enrolled in the local school division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB347 | Intro
25% | School board employees; civil cause of action against principals, division superintendents, and school boards for workplace injuries. Permits any school board employee who suffers bodily injury in the course of his employment on school board property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB882 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; model policy on student cell phone use during instructional time; local adoption. Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model policy whereby public elementary and second...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1385 | Intro
25% | School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Requires the clerk of any court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB582 | Intro
25% | Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB977 | Intro
25% | Expeditious resolution of complaints relating to certain student transportation safety issues. Requires each locality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, to expeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to the maximum ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB359 | Intro
25% | Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories; federal fund deduction methodology; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1051 | Intro
25% | Public education; dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment; high school graduation. Makes several changes relating to graduation from a public high school in the Commonwealth, including (i) eliminating the requirement for a student to complete one v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB564 | Intro
25% | Public schools; classified instructional support staff; competitive compensation; biennial review. Declares that it is a goal of the Commonwealth that its classified instructional support staff, defined in the bill as any individual who works more th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB181 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required; grant program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) that addresses the appropriate use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
