Virginia House Bill 1032 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Superintendent of Public Instruction and local school boards; standards for certain public school library materials; parental review of library and other educational materials. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and distribute to each local school board and each such school board to enforce throughout the local school division mandatory statewide standards for evaluating, classifying, and removing from any public elementary or secondary school library any explicit material. The bill also permits the Office of the Attorney General to enforce compliance with such standards in any local school division. The bill also establishes means and processes for the review of education materials and the review and approval of library materials by parents, including requiring the parents of all students who attend a public elementary or secondary school to comprise the Parental Review and Approval Committee for such school and requiring such Committee to review and vote to approve or disapprove of each item on a list of proposed library materials distributed to it by the school.

School boards, local; standards for certain public school library materials, parental review.

Del. Dave LaRock [R]

Del. Wendell Walker [R]

Del. Wren Williams [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Education
2022-01-28	House	Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
2022-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2022-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103773D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	207.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	23	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	79	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB1032
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1032+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22105009D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB1032F122+PDF