Bill Amendment: VA SB586 | 2024 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc.

Status: 2024-04-17 - Passed by for the day [SB586 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-SB586-Conference_amendments.html

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(SB586)

JOINT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

We, the conferees, appointed by the respective bodies to consider and report upon the disagreeing vote on Senate Bill No. 586, report as follows:

A. We recommend that the House Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (24108219D) be rejected.

B. We recommend that the engrossed bill be accepted with the following amendments to resolve the matter under disagreement:

1. Line 57, engrossed, after without

strike

initiating

insert

considering

2. Line 72, engrossed, after F.

strike

the remainder of line 72 and all of lines 73 through 78

insert

The Department shall add as part of the student behavior and administrative response collection required pursuant to subsection D of § 22.1-279.3:1 the use of evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices as a behavioral intervention in order to evaluate the use and effectiveness of such practices.

Respectfully submitted,

Senator Stella G. Pekarsky

Senator Ghazala F. Hashmi

Senator Todd E. Pillion

Conferees on the part of the Senate

Delegate Delores L. McQuinn

Delegate Laura Jane Cohen

Delegate Carrie E. Coyner

Conferees on the part of the House