VA Committee | House Education | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB544 | Student discipline; suspension and expulsion. Prohibits instances of only disorderly or disruptive behavior offenses or technology offenses as providing sufficient cause for a long-term suspension or expulsion. Currently, a student may be suspended o... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB697 | Higher education; mental health. Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement a policy requesting each student to identify points of contact to be notified should the student experience a ment... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB727 | Board of Education; statewide uniform grading policy. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide uniform grading policy. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB887 | Compulsory public education; student suspension or expulsion from school. Requires the superintendent of each school division to ensure that any student who has been suspended or expelled from school continues to receive an education. The Constitutio... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1080 | Student discipline; parental notification. Requires the school principal to take certain procedures, including parental notification and the issuance of due process warnings, prior to questioning a student in the case of a serious violation. A serio... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1207 | Right of students to assert conscientious objection to any requirement of an academic degree program in an institution of higher education; liability. Provides that no public or private institution of higher learning may penalize or deny academic cre... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB365 | Compulsory public education; student suspension or expulsion from school. Requires the superintendent of each school division to ensure that any student who has been suspended or expelled from school continues to receive an education. The Constitutio... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB366 | Student discipline; suspension and expulsion. Prohibits instances of only disorderly or disruptive behavior offenses or technology offenses as providing sufficient cause for a long-term suspension or expulsion. Currently, a student may be suspended o... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB469 | Algebra readiness assessment. Requires the Board of Education to develop or approve a model assessment of algebra readiness for students to take prior to enrolling in non-remedial algebra. Beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year, every student sh... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1369 | School bus stops; sex offenders. Provides that local school boards shall develop and implement policies for minimizing the number of school bus stops located within 500 feet of the residence of a registered sex offender and shall notify the parent of... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1502 | Virginia Index of Performance incentive program; raising the achievement of students in proficiency gap groups. Adds to the existing Virginia Index of Performance incentive program guidelines the requirement that the Board of Education recognize and ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1503 | Standards of Accreditation. Adds high school graduation rates, the college and career readiness of graduates, the rate of student academic progress in all student subgroups identified pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1782 | Policies on concussion in student-athletes. Requires local school divisions to provide to organizations sponsoring athletic activity for student-athletes on school property the Board of Education's guidelines on policies to inform and educate coaches... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1377 | Care of students who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Requires the parents of any public school student who has been diagnosed with diabetes to designate in a diabetes care plan a delegated care aide to provide diabetes care for the student, includ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1808 | Virginia Public School Improvement Program. Creates the Virginia Public School Improvement Program to offer maximum educational options and flexibility for parents, teachers, and students. The bill authorizes local school boards to designate or appro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2159 | In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Establishes that a student shall be eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has provided an affidavit to the public institution of higher education for which he has registered stating that he ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1490 | In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Establishes that a student shall be eligible for in-state tuition if he meets the following criteria: (i) he has graduated from a public or private high school in the Commonwealth or has recei... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1700 | Admission of students domiciled in Virginia at public institutions of higher education. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for the Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk St... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1867 | Expulsion of students for certain drug offenses. Permits local school boards to consider for expulsion from school attendance students determined to have brought certain drugs onto school property or to a school-sponsored activity. Under current law,... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1880 | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1719 | Concussion education, awareness, and management. Replaces the current requirements of Board of Education regarding policies on concussion in student-athletes and requires the Board to develop and deliver to each local school division and each local y... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1894 | Public school programs; opening of the school day. Requires local school boards to set the daily school calendar so that programs of instruction and school activities shall start no earlier than 8:00 a.m. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1389 | Higher education; allocation of in-state undergraduate tuition and state funds. Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education to ensure that all funds received from in-state undergraduate tuiti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1970 | Exemplary Teacher Grant Fund established. Creates the Exemplary Teacher Grant Fund to award grants on a competitive basis to any exemplary teacher in a public elementary or secondary school who subsequently accepts an offer for employment in a critic... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1972 | Advanced and Precision Manufacturing Education Fund established. Creates the Advanced and Precision Manufacturing Education Fund to award grants on a competitive basis to public high schools to establish programs of training and education to prepare ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1321 | Public schools; possession and administration of epinephrine. Requires local school boards to include in policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine a provision allowing any local health department employee approved by the local gov... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2164 | Unexpended or unencumbered local school and educational funds. Requires all moneys derived from local funds unencumbered in any year in any school division to be available for use the next year by the governing body that appropriated the funds. Under... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2171 | School safety audits; school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each local school board to conduct a school safety audit and review its school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plan... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2201 | Public school buildings; carbon monoxide detectors. Directs the Board of Education to include in its regulations a provision requiring that all new construction of, additions to, and alterations of public school buildings include the installation of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1978 | University of Virginia Board of Visitors; composition and quorum. Requires at least one member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors to have administrative experience at an institution of higher education or have experience as a professor i... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1605 | Admission of students domiciled in Virginia at public institutions of higher education. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1556 | Divisionwide ratios of students to teachers. Changes the ratio of students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions from a divisionwide ratio to a schoolwide ratio. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2339 | Department of Education; character education program. Requires the Board of Education to identify, in establishing criteria for character education programs, core objective moral values that apply to all mankind. The bill also permits school boards t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1934 | In-state tuition; undocumented persons. Establishes that an undocumented person who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for in-state tuition unless he meets all of the following criteria: (i) he has resided with his paren... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1602 | Virginia Workforce Council; annual informational brochure for eleventh grade students in public high schools. Requires the Virginia Workforce Council to assist the Governor in developing and annually updating a brochure containing information on voca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2337 | Public schools; school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans; parent involvement. Directs each local school board to hold and require the parents of each student in the local school division to attend an informational ses... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1309 | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1310 | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1317 | Board of Education; administration. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations providing for an additional testing period, to occur prior to March 1 of each year, for the administration of Standards of Learning assessments to students. Loca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1881 | University of Virginia Board of Visitors; composition. Adds two members to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors: one member of the faculty senate, nominated by the faculty senate and approved by the remainder of the board, and one currently e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1875 | Boards of visitors and the State Board for Community Colleges; faculty member. Adds one faculty member to the board of visitors of each public institution of higher education and of the State Board for Community Colleges to be appointed by the other ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1976 | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. Clarifies that the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments is required to evaluate potential appointees to higher education governing boards and to make recommendations to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1470 | Public charter schools; costs and applications. Establishes that public charter schools are not required to pay the costs of necessary renovations to school facilities and clarifies that the negotiations between the public charter school and the loca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2230 | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments; composition. Adds a tenured faculty member from a four-year public institution of higher education and a faculty member from a community college to the Virginia Commission on Higher Educatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1651 | Unified Innovation Fund established. Consolidates funding for virtual school programs, charter schools, college partnership laboratory schools, and other innovative education projects by repealing the Public Charter School Fund and the College Partne... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1491 | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1537 | Student teachers and student teacher supervisors; fingerprinting, criminal history records check, and child abuse and neglect data. Requires any student teacher at an accredited public or private institution of higher education, as a condition of par... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB1151 | Virginia Student Achievement Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Student Achievement Fund that shall be used solely for the purposes of awarding grants on a competitive basis to any local school division or other qualified entity to fund stud... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1158 | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations authorizing local school divisions to determine the date for administering Standards of Learning assessments. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1188 | Career Pathways System Advisory Council; established. Establishes the Career Pathways System Advisory Council. The purpose of the Council is to ensure the coordination and collaboration of career and technical education, adult education, and workforc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
