Virginia House Bill 1704 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)
Status: Passed on March 22 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Public elementary and secondary schools; reports of certain arrests and convictions; receipt, report, and compilation. Requires each division superintendent to annually designate an employee in the local school division as the division safety official whose duty is to receive all reports required to be made pursuant to relevant law from (i) every state official or agency and every sheriff, police officer, or other local law-enforcement officer or conservator of the peace having the power to arrest for a felony upon arresting a person who is known or discovered by the arresting official to be a full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary teacher or any other employee in such local school division for a felony or a Class 1 misdemeanor or an equivalent offense in another state and (ii) the clerk of any circuit court or any district court in the Commonwealth upon the felony conviction of any person known by such clerk to be employed by such local school division. Public elementary and secondary schools; reports of certain arrests and convictions; receipt, report, and compilation. Requires each division superintendent to annually designate an employee in the local school division as the division safety official whose duty is to receive all reports required to be made pursuant to relevant law from (i) every state official or agency and every sheriff, police officer, or other local law-enforcement officer or conservator of the peace having the power to arrest for a felony upon arresting a person who is known or discovered by the arresting official to be a full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary teacher or any other employee in such local school division for a felony or a Class 1 misdemeanor or an equivalent offense in another state and (ii) the clerk of any circuit court or any district court in the Commonwealth upon the felony conviction of any person known by such clerk to be employed by such local school division. The bill requires each division superintendent to include such division safety official designation in the collated packet of school safety audits submitted to the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety pursuant to relevant law and requires the Center to designate an employee of the Center as the school personnel safety official for the Commonwealth whose duty is to compile, maintain, and make publicly available a list of each such division safety official. The bill requires such designation to include updated contact information for the division safety official and requires such safety official to at least annually confirm with each division superintendent that such contact information is up to date and accurate. The bill also provides that a probation and parole officer who is supervising a person employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth shall, upon discovering that such supervised person has been arrested or convicted of a felony offense or an equivalent offense in another state, report such arrest or conviction to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the designated division safety official in the local school division where such supervised person is employed as soon as practicable. The bill requires any such report to be transmitted via certified mail to the mailing address identified by the division superintendent or via fax and email to the fax number and email address identified by the division superintendent, pursuant to the applicable provisions of the bill. Finally, the bill requires, until July 1, 2027, that all such arresting officials or agencies request in writing that the Virginia Employment Commission provide the name of the current employer of each arrested person for purposes of determining whether such notice is required.

Arrests, certain, and convictions of certain individuals; reports to division safety officials.

Del. Robert Bell [R]	Del. Robert Bloxom [R]	Del. Kathy Byron [R]	Del. Ellen Campbell [R]
Del. Hyland Fowler [R]	Del. Karen Greenhalgh [R]	Sen. Chris Head [R]	Del. Keith Hodges [R]
Sen. John McGuire [R]	Del. Roxann Robinson [R]	Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Anne Ferrell Tata [R]
Del. Wendell Walker [R]	Del. Wren Williams [R]	Del. Scott Wyatt [R]

2023-02-25 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N) (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2023-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-15 - House - House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N) (Y: 0 N: 98 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [FAIL]
2023-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-31 - House - House: VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-25 - House - House: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-22		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282)
2023-03-22		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 282 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1704ER)
2023-03-07	House	Enrolled
2023-02-25	House	VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
2023-02-25	House	Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
2023-02-25	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-25	House	Conference substitute printed 23107559D-H1
2023-02-25		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2023-02-25	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2023-02-21	House	Delegates: Bell, Wyatt, Maldonado
2023-02-21	House	Conferees appointed by House
2023-02-21	Senate	Senators: Hashmi, Surovell, Cosgrove
2023-02-21	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2023-02-20	House	House acceded to request
2023-02-20	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-17	Senate	Senate requested conference committee
2023-02-17	Senate	Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-15	House	VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 98-N)
2023-02-15	House	Senate substitute rejected by House 23106552D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
2023-02-13	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-13	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1704S1
2023-02-13	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 23106552D-S1
2023-02-13	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-02-13	Senate	Read third time
2023-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-09	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23106552D-S1
2023-02-09	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2023-02-01	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2023-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2023-01-31	House	VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
2023-01-31	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2023-01-30	House	Printed as engrossed 23100367D-E
2023-01-30	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB1704E
2023-01-30	House	Committee amendments agreed to
2023-01-30	House	Read second time
2023-01-27	House	Read first time
2023-01-25	House	Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
2023-01-24	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
2023-01-23	House	Assigned Education sub: K-12
2023-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2023-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100367D

SB821 (Same As) 2023-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283)
SB821 (Same As) 2023-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	291.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	299.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	83.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	279.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	184	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1704
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1704+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1704E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1704S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1704H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1704ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0282+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105387A.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+HB1704AH
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106552D.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+HB1704AC
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1704FS1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1704FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H0901V0027+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H09V0036+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1214+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S04V0249+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0418HB1704+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0423HB1704+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1836+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0542HB1704+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0987HB1704+HB1704
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2374+HB1704