Subject Education | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB576 | Public schools; teacher contract and evaluation policies. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and retained. Teachers, assistant principals, and principals who have not achieved continuing ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB866 | Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HJR94 | Memorializing Congress; voluntary school prayer and prayer in public meetings. Memorializes the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow for voluntary public school prayer and public prayer. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB118 | Virginia Public School Improvement Program. Creates the Virginia Public School Improvement Program to offer more educational options and flexibility for parents, teachers, and students. The bill authorizes local school boards to designate or approve ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB168 | Public schools; closed-circuit cameras. Prohibits the use of closed-circuit cameras for the purpose of monitoring student conduct within the school, unless necessary to protect the physical safety and security of the students. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB269 | Physical education; JROTC participation fulfills requirement. Requires local school boards to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps as fulfillment of any high school physical education requirement. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB399 | Deaf and hearing-impaired children; special education. Requires 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 appro... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB553 | Local school divisions; unexpended state funds. Provides that local school divisions may elect to use any unexpended state funds to provide a one-time bonus to all teachers of up to three percent of the annual base salary. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB567 | Low-income and student toll tax credit. Establishes a tax credit for students and low-income persons who have an E-ZPass or who pay tolls. The amount of the credit is capped at $1,000 per qualified taxpayer. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB624 | Institutions of higher education; suicidal students. Requires public institutions of higher education to notify parents any time the institution receives notification from any source that a student may be suicidal, to the extent permitted by the fede... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB665 | Standards of Learning; method of administration. Allows a local school division to administer any Standards of Learning assessment for elementary school students online or by paper. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SJR14 | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the Composite Index of Local Abilit... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SJR17 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB208 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [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 | 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 | HB832 | Distribution of sales tax revenue to localities based on school-age population. Permits local school divisions that make the determination that the annual estimate of school-age population within the division provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for ... [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 | HB1006 | Home school instruction tax credit. Creates an individual income tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for amounts paid by a parent or legal guardian for his child for home instruction-related materials and correspondence courses or distance learning... [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 | SB216 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB581 | Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
