Virginia Senate Bill 80 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on November 26 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-23 - Continued to 2021 in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N)
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press. Declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public middle school or high school or public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom of speech and the press in school-sponsored media, including determining the news, opinion, feature, and advertising content of school-sponsored media, regardless of whether the media is supported financially by the school board or governing board, supported through the use of school or campus facilities, or produced in conjunction with a class or course in which the student is enrolled. The bill defines "school-sponsored media" as any material that is prepared, substantially written, published, or broadcast by a student journalist at a public middle school or high school or public institution of higher education under the direction of a student media adviser and distributed or generally made available to members of the student body.

Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press.

Sen. Dave Marsden [D]

2020-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N) (Y: 13 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-23	Senate	Continued to 2021 in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N)
2020-01-14	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2019-11-26	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2019-11-26	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101479D

SB80 (Carry Over) 2020-01-23 - Continued to 2021 in Education and Health (13-Y 1-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	203.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	401.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB80
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB80+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S04V0036+SB0080