Virginia Senate Bill 1406 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Passed on March 25 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-25 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

School boards; staffing ratios; guidance counselors. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires school boards to employ school counselors in accordance with the following ratios: in elementary schools, one hour per day per 75 students, one full-time at 375 students, one hour per day additional time per 75 students or major fraction thereof; in middle schools, one period per 65 students, one full-time at 325 students, one additional period per 65 students or major fraction thereof; and in high schools, one period per 60 students, one full-time at 300 students, one additional period per 60 students or major fraction thereof. Such ratios would be effective with the 2019-2020 school year.

Guidance counselors; staffing ratios, changes name to school counselors, etc.

Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]

Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

2019-02-15 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-25		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796)
2019-03-25		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 796 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-27		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-02-27	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
2019-02-20	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-20	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-20	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1406ER)
2019-02-20	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-15	Senate	Title replaced 19106756D-H1
2019-02-15	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-13	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-13	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-13	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1406H1
2019-02-13	House	Committee substitute agreed to 19106756D-H1
2019-02-13	House	Read third time
2019-02-12	House	Read second time
2019-02-11	House	Committee substitute printed 19106756D-H1
2019-02-11	House	Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2019-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2019-02-08	House	Read first time
2019-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-05	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2019-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-05	Senate	Printed as engrossed 19102239D-E
2019-02-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1406E
2019-02-05	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2019-02-05	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2019-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2019-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
2019-01-24	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2019-01-24	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N)
2019-01-16	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2019-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2019-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102239D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	227.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:10	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	290.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1406
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1406+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1406E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1406H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1406ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0796+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S04V0086+SB1406
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S05V0220+SB1406
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0353SB1406+SB1406
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0426SB1406+SB1406
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0418SB1406+SB1406
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H02V0194+SB1406
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2713+SB1406
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0682SB1406+SB1406