VA HB786 | 2022 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Board of Education; policy on certain instructional material and related academic activities; annual parental notification; replacement or alternative material and activities; local compliance. Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each local school board to comply with, a policy to require each public elementary or secondary school to (i) annually notify the parent of any student enrolled in a class or course in which the instructional material or related academic activities includes or may include sexually explicit content, as defined in the bill, or content that depicts sexual misconduct, as defined in the bill; (ii) permit the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content or content that depicts sexual misconduct, upon request; and (iii) provide, as a replacement or an alternative to instructional material and related academic activities that include sexually explicit content or content that depicts sexual misconduct, instructional material and related academic activities that do not include sexually explicit content or content that depicts sexual misconduct to any student whose parent so requests.

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Title

Instructional material and related academic activities; Board of Education to establish policy.

Sponsors


History

DateChamberAction
2022-02-15HouseLeft in Education
2022-01-11HouseReferred to Committee on Education
2022-01-11HousePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104073D

Subjects


Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
22116.8(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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