Virginia House Bill 1046 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

School boards; parental notification of certain threats, behavior, and unlawful acts; panic alarms. Requires, within four hours of receiving notification of (i) a preliminary determination by the threat assessment team that a student poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; (ii) threatening or aberrant behavior that may represent a threat to the school; or (iii) unlawful acts committed on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity that involve the unlawful use or possession of a weapon, homicide, criminal sexual assault, or trespassing, each division superintendent to notify the parent of each student enrolled in the relevant school of such threat, threatening or aberrant behavior, or unlawful act. The bill requires each school board to equip each public elementary and secondary school building in the local school division with at least one panic alarm that adheres to nationally recognized industry standards, including the standards of the National Fire Protection Association and Underwriters Laboratories, and is installed by a licensed and qualified professional. The bill defines "panic alarm" as a silent security system by which the user manually activates a device that sends a non-audible signal to the local law-enforcement agency that indicates a school security emergency, including a non-fire evacuation, lockdown, or active shooter situation, that requires immediate response and assistance from such agency.

School boards; parental notification of certain incidents, Alyssa's law-silent panic alarms.

Del. Amanda Batten [R]

2024-02-06 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Education
2024-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2024-02-01	House	Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
2024-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2024-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102162D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	79.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	79.4:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1046
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1046+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24107272D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB1046F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0901V0100+HB1046