VA Code | §22-1 | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1350 | Mathematics assessments; targeted remediation and intervention for computational deficiencies. Requires local school divisions to provide targeted mathematics remediation and intervention to students in grades six through eight who show computational... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| VA | SB960 | Public schools; residency of children in kinship care. Allows a child receiving kinship care from an adult relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bill also allows local school divisions to require one l... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| VA | HB1864 | School-based offenses; delinquency charges. Clarifies that a local law-enforcement agency is not required to file delinquency charges against a student and that a school and a local law-enforcement agency may deal with school-based offenses through g... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Signed by President as reenrolled |
| VA | SB1194 | Juvenile alleged to be truant; development of truancy plan. Provides that in cases in which a school attendance officer files a complaint alleging that a juvenile is a truant and the juvenile has not previously been proceeded against informally or ad... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB1097 | Deaf and hearing-impaired children; special education. Permits local school divisions to ensure that individualized education program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of hearing-impaired children and address those needs as approp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| VA | HB2347 | Confidentiality of juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principal. Provides that, in addition to disclosures of juvenile law-enforcement records that may already be made by chiefs of police and sheriffs to school principals, those... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| VA | HB1406 | Parent educational information for public school students; eating disorders. Requires each school board to annually provide parent educational information on eating disorders for public school students in grades five through 12. The bill also require... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| VA | HB1344 | Special education; children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Permits local school divisions to ensure that individualized education program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and address ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| VA | HB2344 | School safety; threat assessment teams and oversight committees. Requires local school boards to establish policies and procedures for the establishment of threat assessment teams. The bill requires the division superintendent to establish for each s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| VA | HB1858 | Career and technical occupational experiences for secondary school students; model waiver form. Requires the Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2014, a model waiver form for use by any entity providing a career and technical occupational exper... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| VA | HB1750 | Participation in interscholastic programs; students residing on a military or naval reservation. Requires any student who resides on a military or naval reservation with military-owned housing located wholly or partly within the geographical boundari... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| VA | SB1185 | Teacher performance; Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative created. Establishes the Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative and Fund, which provide that local school divisions may submit proposals to the Board of Education to receive grants that ma... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| VA | HB1497 | Participation in public school interscholastic programs by students in military families. Prohibits public elementary or secondary schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| VA | HB1871 | Student and school employee conduct; bullying. Defines the term "bullying" and requires school boards to include in their codes of student conduct policies and procedures that include a prohibition against bullying. The bill also requires the Board o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| VA | HB2098 | School boards; releases from state regulations. Requires any school board that has requested a release from certain state regulations to provide a description of how the release from the state regulation is designed to increase the quality of instruc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| VA | HB2116 | Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Amends the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to create new efficiencies and streamline procedures b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| VA | SB1209 | Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Amends the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to create new efficiencies and streamline procedures b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| VA | HB1844 | Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy; privatization. Makes various technical and other statutory changes necessary to implement the privatization of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| VA | HB2151 | Public schools; evaluation policies and grievance procedures. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated. The bill requires teachers, assistant principals, and principals to be evaluated every ye... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| VA | SB893 | Public schools; possession and administration of epinephrine. Adds employees of local governing bodies and employees of local health departments to the lists of individuals who are permitted to possess and administer epinephrine and not be held liabl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| VA | SB1196 | Board of Education; report to include information on school choice. Requires the Board of Education to include information regarding school choice in its annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| VA | SB1201 | Board of Education; regulations. Removes the requirement that the Board of Education promulgate regulations concerning the process for submitting proposals for the consolidation of school divisions and temporarily employed teachers. The bill also rem... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| VA | SB1191 | Participation in interscholastic programs; students residing on a military or naval reservation. Requires any student who resides on a military or naval reservation with military-owned housing located wholly or partly within the geographical boundari... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| VA | SB1223 | Public schools; evaluation policies and grievance procedures. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated. The bill requires teachers, assistant principals, and principals to be evaluated every ye... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| VA | HB2346 | Yearly school lock-down drills, school safety audits, and school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each school, in its annual school safety audit, to complete a school inspection walk-through using a standar... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| VA | HB2101 | Career and technical education; High School to Work Partnerships. Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for the establishment of High School to Work Partnerships between public high schools and local businesses to create apprenticeship... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| VA | HB2028 | Public schools; cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators. Allows school boards to require current certification or training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and the use of automated external defi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| VA | SB986 | Public schools; cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators. Allows school boards to require current certification or training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and the use of automated external defi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| VA | SB1189 | School boards; releases from state regulations. Requires any school board that has requested a release from certain state regulations to provide a description of how the release from the state regulation is designed to increase the quality of instruc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| VA | HB2084 | Teacher licensure; Teach For America license. Creates a two-year provisional license for participants in Teach For America, a nationwide nonprofit organization focused on closing the achievement gaps among students in low-income areas, who meet certa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| VA | HB1468 | Public schools; possession and administration of epinephrine. Adds employees of local governing bodies and employees of local health departments to the lists of individuals who are permitted to possess and administer epinephrine and not be held liabl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| VA | HB1735 | Local school boards; salary increases. Specifies that salary increases for local school boards representing a city or town established in a year preceding a year in which members are to be appointed or elected shall become effective on July 1 of the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278) |
| VA | HB1866 | Public schools; expulsion of students. Removes certain weapons from the definition of "firearm" the possession of which by a student on school property or at a school-sponsored activity is punishable by mandatory expulsion from school for at least on... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| VA | HB1889 | Public schools; personnel files. Requires performance indicators, or other data used by the local school board to judge the growth or quality of a teacher, to be kept confidential but permits such information to be disclosed pursuant to court order, ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| VA | HB2019 | Public schools; policies and regulations. Requires that a current copy of all school division policies and regulations approved by the local school board must be posted on the division's website and available to employees and to the public. Printed c... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| VA | HB2066 | Standards of Quality; assignment of certain staff. Permits local school divisions that employ a sufficient number of librarians, guidance counselors, and school-based clerical personnel to meet the staffing requirements that are prescribed in Standar... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224) |
| VA | HB2076 | Charter schools; applications. Provides that charter school applications that are initiated by one or more local school boards are not subject to review by the Board of Education. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225) |
| VA | HB2083 | Teacher performance; Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative created. Establishes the Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative and Fund, which provide that local school divisions may submit proposals to the Board of Education to receive grants that ma... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| VA | SB1171 | Public schools; early intervention services for reading and mathematics. Adds kindergarten and grades one and two to the requirement that local school divisions provide early intervention services to students in grade three who demonstrate deficienci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157) |
| VA | SB1172 | Standards of Quality; assignment of certain staff. Permits local school divisions that employ a sufficient number of librarians, guidance counselors, and school-based clerical personnel to meet the staffing requirements that are prescribed in Standar... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158) |
| VA | HB1388 | Principals, assistant principals, and supervisors; reassignment. Changes the deadline for a school board to notify principals, assistant principals, or supervisors under continuing contract of their reassignment to teaching positions from April 15 to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| VA | HB2068 | Public schools; early intervention services for reading and mathematics. Adds kindergarten and grades one and two to the requirement that local school divisions provide early intervention services to students in grade three who demonstrate deficienci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123) |
| VA | SB1252 | Policies on concussions in student-athletes. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property to establish policies and procedures based on either the local school division's guidelines or the Board of Education... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB1374 | Schools that have been denied accreditation and fail to make progress toward accreditation; turnaround specialist. Requires local school boards, when a school has been denied accreditation and has failed to make satisfactory progress toward full accr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB936 | Principals, assistant principals, and supervisors; reassignment. Changes the deadline for a school board to notify principals, assistant principals, or supervisors under continuing contract of their reassignment to teaching positions from April 15 to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044) |
| VA | SB1131 | Charter schools; applications. Provides that charter school applications that are initiated by one or more local school boards are not subject to review by the Board of Education. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| VA | SB1175 | Teacher licensure; Teach For America license. Creates a two-year provisional license for participants in Teach For America, a nationwide nonprofit organization focused on closing the achievement gaps among students in low-income areas, who meet certa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053) |
| VA | SB1248 | Career and technical education; High School to Work Partnerships. Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for the establishment of High School to Work Partnerships between public high schools and local businesses to create apprenticeship... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056) |
| VA | HB2096 | Opportunity Educational Institution established. Creates the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board. The bill requires any school that has been denied accreditation and p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| VA | SB934 | Charter schools; personnel. Allows public charter schools to designate in their application whether their employees will participate in the Virginia Retirement System. The bill directs the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System to develo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
