| SB890 | Intro
25% | Agricultural commodity boards; Agricultural Council; appointment and membership terms; production areas. Amends various provisions relating to the appointment, terms, and quorums of agricultural commodity boards, including the Cotton Board, Egg Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 9:00 am]
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee |
| SB978 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary education; Office of Mathematics Improvement established; mathematics improvement and advancement policies and programs. Establishes several new programs and policies for the purpose of improving mathematics instructio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 8:00 am]
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB784 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; public school accountability system; Three "E" Readiness Framework; include and incentivize work-based learning experiences. Directs the Board of Education to revise its Three "E" Readiness Framework: Employment, Enlistment, and E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB738 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; student cell phone possession and use policies; development and implementation. Directs each school board to develop and each public elementary and secondary school to implement age-appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB755 | Intro
25% | School safety; employment of school security officers; criteria. Modifies the criteria that an individual employed as a school security officer, as defined by applicable law, must satisfy in order to carry a firearm in the performance of his duties b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB756 | Intro
25% | Public education; early childhood care and education; funding formula calculations; Early Childhood Care and Education Fund established; report. Requires the Department of Education to (i) establish and maintain a funding formula for the provision of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB753 | Intro
25% | Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments in languages other than English; development and administration. Requires (i) the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning assessments in native languages other than English that are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB749 | Intro
25% | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB820 | Intro
25% | Public schools; Virginia School Improvement Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Virginia School Improvement Grant Program for the purpose of providing additional support to public schools identified based on their school performance sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB822 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB786 | Intro
25% | Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program established; incorporation into National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund. Establishes the Nationally Certified School Psychologist Program and incorporates such program into the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB829 | Intro
25% | Public school teachers; teacher compensation; Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program established. Establishes the Professionally Licensed Teacher Supplemental Pay Program (the Program) for the purpose of addressing shortages of prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB855 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments and related student assessment methods; assessment development, implementation, and administration reform. Modifies provisions relating to assessment methods for determining the level of achieveme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB929 | Intro
25% | Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund established. Establishes the Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund and requires any eligible designated funds received under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be deposited into the Fund....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee |
| SB1000 | Intro
25% | Compensation for livestock and poultry killed by dogs. Increases the fair market value compensation amounts for livestock and poultry killed or injured by dogs from $750 to $1,000 per animal and from $10 to $25 per fowl.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee |
| SB908 | Intro
25% | Public schools; student discipline and codes of conduct; prevention of and response to cyberbullying; policies and procedures required. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB905 | Intro
25% | School boards; Internet safety education program; Internet Safety Advisory Council established. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Internet Safety Advisory Council and requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB921 | Intro
25% | State Veterinarian; large animal veterinary grant program; report. Directs the State Veterinarian to establish a large animal veterinary grant program no later than July 1, 2026, to provide grants to increase or stabilize the number of large animal v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee |
| SB955 | Intro
25% | Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. Makes several changes relating to the textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials that are utilized as the curriculum basis for public elementary and secondary sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB979 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; public school accountability; delayed implementation and review of revised public school accountability system; report; emergency. Directs the Department of Education to delay for a period of one year the implementation of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1033 | Intro
25% | Local school boards; powers and duties; binding arbitration agreements. Permits any school board to enter into a written agreement to submit any existing controversy to binding arbitration and to execute a contract, including a collective bargaining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1003 | Intro
25% | School breakfasts; availability at no cost to students. Requires each school board to require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1066 | Intro
25% | Programs of instruction; family life education; instruction on human reproduction; inclusion of certain materials relating to human gestation required. Requires the curriculum guidelines developed by the Board of Education for a comprehensive, sequen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1126 | Intro
25% | Students with individualized education programs or Section 504 Plans; emergency protocol and guide. Requires each individualized education program implemented for a public school student with a disability in accordance with the federal Individuals wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1130 | Intro
25% | School boards; school-based mental health teletherapy services; increasing accessibility of mental health teletherapy services; policies and requirements. Directs the Department of Education (the Department) to include in the model memorandum of unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1037 | Intro
25% | School boards; student access to telehealth services; policies. Directs each school board to consider, for the purpose of increasing access to health care services for students, developing and implementing policies for permitting any public school st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1017 | Intro
25% | School boards; powers and duties; school meal policies; payment of school meal debt. Requires each school board, at the end of each school year, to pay for the total unpaid school meal balance, resulting from uncollected school meal debts on any stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1079 | Intro
25% | Elementary and secondary schools; athletics; participation in female sports; civil cause of action. Requires each public elementary or secondary school and each private elementary or secondary school that competes in sponsored athletic events against...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1030 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student athletes; pre-participation physical examination required. Provides that no public elementary or secondary school student is permitted to be a participant on or try out for any school athletic team or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1129 | Intro
25% | National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1031 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance requirements; religious exemption; requirements. Amends the provisions permitting any child and his parents to receive an exemption from school attendance by reason of bona fide religious...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1032 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; teacher; terms of employment; reemployment of teacher who has not achieved continuing contract status; written notice required. Removes the requirement that, in the event of the noncontinuation of the contract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1036 | Intro
25% | Seizure rescue medications; administration by certain school employees; possession by certain students. Permits a prescriber to authorize an employee of (i) a school board, (ii) a school for students with disabilities, (iii) an accredited private sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1034 | Intro
25% | Students who need or use augmentative and alternative communication; documentation of needs on individualized education program; staff training. Requires each school division to document on the individualized education program of a student with a dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1048 | Intro
25% | School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1124 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; driver education programs; computer-based driver education courses; requirements. Requires the Board of Education to establish or approve and permits each school board that chooses to offer a program of driver education in the saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| SB1307 | Intro
25% | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects, defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB754 | Intro
25% | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; obtaining, disclosing, etc., reproductive or sexual health information without consumer consent. Provides that obtaining, disclosing, selling, or disseminating personally identifiable reproducti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB781 | Intro
25% | Publication of personal information of retired or former law-enforcement officers. Adds retired or former law-enforcement officers, defined in the bill, to the definition of "public official" for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15]
Passed by for the day |
| SB812 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB787 | Intro
25% | Department of Housing and Community Development reports; consolidation. Consolidates varying due dates for certain reports relating to the Department of Housing and Community Development to October 1 and requires such reports be submitted as part of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB872 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Portsmouth. Amends the charter for the City of Portsmouth by authorizing the City Manager to require city departments to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law wherever there exists (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:30 am]
Passed by for the day |
| SB874 | Intro
25% | Local sales and use tax; capital projects for schools; Pulaski County. Adds Pulaski County to the list of localities that are authorized to levy an additional general retail sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent to provide revenue sol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB885 | Intro
25% | Office of the State Inspector General; behavioral health and developmental services; required reports. Adds the Behavioral Health Commission to the list of entities to whom the Office of the State Inspector General is required to report on certain is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
[Hearing: Jan 16]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB935 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Chesapeake. Amends the charter for the City of Chesapeake to clarify the dates for (i) the election and terms of members of council and the mayor, (ii) when a sitting council member must resign when running for mayor, and (iii) the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:30 am]
Passed by for the day |
| SB876 | Intro
25% | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; notice of public meetings; proposed agenda required. Requires public bodies subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to include a proposed agenda listing all items expected to be considered by the public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB987 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Norfolk. Amends the charter for the City of Norfolk to exempt the position of deputy fire chief from the classified service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 7:30 am]
Passed by for the day |
| SB758 | Intro
25% | Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote monitoring services for pregnant and postpartum patients; reimbursement. Expands provision for payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring services provided via telemedicine to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
| SB1289 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; nutritional standards for school meals and other foods; nutrition requirements; certain color additives prohibited. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school from offering or making available to any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB833 | Intro
25% | Operation of the City of Hampton local health department. Allows the City of Hampton to enter into a contract with the Department of Health for the local administration of local health services. Currently, the local department of health is operated a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee |
