Subject Education | 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 | HB1420 | Board of Education; definition of "intervener." Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations defining "intervener" as an individual with knowledge and skill in the mode of communication of a deaf-blind student and who can communicate to ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| VA | SB899 | Bumper stickers on school buses. Authorizes local school divisions to place decals on the rear of school buses noting that the buses stop at railroad crossings. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| VA | HB1609 | Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Provides that the governing board of each public four-year institution of higher education may establish written memoranda of understanding with its local community services board or behavioral... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| 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 | SB1277 | Wildlife exhibitor permit. Requires the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to establish standards for the possession and display of wildlife by elementary and secondary school teachers for educational purposes. The bill exempts such exhibits from the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| VA | SB1324 | Opportunity Educational Institution and Board 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 accredita... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Communicated to Governor |
| 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 | HB2176 | Northampton County School Board; terms. Shortens or lengthens the terms of the currently appointed members of the Northampton County School Board so they all expire on December 31, 2013, and provides for the initial staggering of terms of the member... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| VA | SB1345 | Teacher licensure; renewal requirements. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require any individual licensed and endorsed to teach (i) middle school civics or economics or (ii) high school government or history who is seeking ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| 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 | SB1342 | Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Provides that the governing board of each public four-year institution of higher education may establish written memoranda of understanding with its local community services board or behavioral... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| 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 | HB1617 | Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| 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 | SB1074 | Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| VA | HB1601 | Commission on Civics Education; sunset extended. Extends the sunset date for the Commission on Civics Education to July 1, 2016. The bill also repeals the provision that made the existence of the Commission contingent on continued funding in a gener... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| 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 | SB1207 | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "stude... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| VA | HB1999 | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "stude... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| 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 | HB2345 | Virginia Center for School Safety; duties. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety, in conjunction with the Department of State Police, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, and the Department of Education, to develop... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| 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 | 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 | SB1167 | Student growth indicators. Requires the Board of Education to develop student growth indicators by October 1, 2014, to be used in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also requires the Department of Education to submi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| 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 | HB2144 | Standards of Quality; waivers from third grade Standards of Learning assessments in certain scenarios. Allows a public elementary school that had an adjusted pass rate of less than 75 percent on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessmen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2343 | Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013. Requires the Virginia Public School Authority to issue bonds for the funding of matching grants to local public school divisions for the purchase and installation of security equipment in public sch... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| 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 | SB1376 | Civil immunity for certain persons; incidents on school property. Provides that any person who, in good faith and without malice, reports, investigates, or causes an investigation to be made into the activities of any person relating to conduct invol... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| VA | SB718 | Child support; imputation of income; attendance in educational or vocational program. Provides that a parent's decision to attend and complete an educational or vocational program that is likely to maintain or increase the parent's earning potential ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| 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 | SB1011 | Licensed clinical social workers; educational requirements. Requires the Board of Social Work to accept proof of the successful completion of the following as evidence of the satisfaction of the educational requirements for licensure as a clinical so... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| 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 | HB2193 | Child abuse investigations; employees of school divisions. Expands the class of individuals whom a local department of social services must report to a local school board upon determination that a complaint alleging that such individual has committed... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| VA | HB1582 | Armed security officers; protection of schools and child day centers. Permits any armed security officers licensed by the Department of Criminal Justice Services to carry firearms onto private or religious school property if such officer is hired by ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| 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) |
