Virginia Senate Bill 832 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 23 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-02-02 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (14-Y 1-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public schools; parental rights to educational Public schools; parental rights to educational transparency. Declares that the parent of any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth has the right to (i) access a list of any printed or audiovisual instructional material; (ii) participate in the textbook review and approval process; (iii) receive notice of and give informed consent to any counseling or guidance program offered to his child by the school; (iv) access his child's education records; (v) receive advance, written notice of any school-sponsored field trip, activity, assembly, presentation, or other event at which his child's attendance is invited, including a clear opt-out provision; (vi) receive advance notice of any questionnaire or survey to be administered to his child; (vii) receive notice of and attend any public meeting of the school board in the local school division in which his child is enrolled; (viii) review the annual school division budget and expenditures; and (ix) petition the circuit court with jurisdiction over such child's local school division to review an action of the school board if the parent is aggrieved by such action. The bill requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the parental right to review and exempt his child from any printed or audiovisual instructional materials used as a part of the curriculum in any class or course in which such parent's child is enrolled. The bill also revises existing policies and duties of each local school board in accordance with the parental rights to transparency in education.

Public schools; parental rights to educational transparency.

Sen. Amanda Chase [R]

2023-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-02	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (14-Y 1-N)
2023-01-11	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2022-12-23	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-12-23	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102373D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	1.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	16.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:7	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	79.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB832
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB832+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB832F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S04V0145+SB0832