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SB786Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1017Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1031Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1032Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB855Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1033Intro
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 ...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1003Intro
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 ...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB979Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB908Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB905Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1000Intro
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.
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee
SB1034Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1048Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB921Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee
SB929Intro
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....
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee
SB1126Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1130Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB755Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB756Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB753Intro
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 ...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1079Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB749Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB978Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 8:00 am]
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB829Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1030Intro
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 ...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB890Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 15 @ 9:00 am]
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Rural Committee
SB820Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB955Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1066Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1036Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1129Intro
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,...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1037Intro
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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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB738Intro
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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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB784Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB822Intro
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 ...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB1124Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
SB796Intro
25%
Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority; authority to dissolve. Provides that the board of directors of the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority may by resolution divest itself of property owned by the Authority and may transfer all such pro...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB831Intro
25%
Department of Medical Assistance Services; presumptive eligibility for pregnant individuals; qualified entities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority to implement presumptive eligibility for pregnant individ...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee
SB857Intro
25%
Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance; Dam Safety Act; powers and duties of the Department of Conservation and Recreation; rights and requirements of dam owners; civil penalty. Amends various provisions of the Dam Safety Act to strea...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB804Intro
25%
Limitation on prosecution of felony due to lapse of time after finding of probable cause; exceptions; competency evaluation. Provides that the speedy trial statute is tolled for an evaluation to determine a defendant's competency to stand trial.
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2025-01-14
Passed by for the day
SB910Intro
25%
Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a cert...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee
SB841Intro
25%
Board of Pharmacy; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; opioid treatment programs; mobile units; report. Directs the Board of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to de...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee
SB843Intro
25%
Department of Medical Assistance Services; remote patient monitoring for patients with chronic conditions; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop a plan and estimate costs for expanding eligibility criteria under Med...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 16 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee
SB992Intro
25%
Civil penalties for certain repeat zoning violations in Planning District 23; appeals. Provides an enhanced level of civil penalties in Planning District 23 (Hampton Roads) for repeat violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses, defined in the ...
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2025-01-14
Passed by for the day
SB1406Intro
25%
Office of the Children's Ombudsman; foster youth's right to receive information. Requires the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or any child-placing agency to provide certain in...
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2025-01-14
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB997Intro
25%
Local officers; oath of office. Provides that, notwithstanding the provisions of any local government charter, or any other provision of law, every elected county, city, town and district officer, on or before the day on which his term of office begi...
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2025-01-14
Passed by for the day
SB1397Intro
25%
Possession or transportation of firearms, firearms ammunition, stun weapons, explosives or concealed weapons by persons adjudicated delinquent; penalty. Provides that the prohibition on the possession and transportation of firearms and ammunition by ...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB1089Intro
25%
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; operational plan submission. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to include in the annual report on its operational plan the most recent available audit report from the...
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2025-01-14
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB854Intro
25%
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed prohibited for minors. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using...
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2025-01-14
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB1035Intro
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Opioid antagonists; dispensing and administration by person acting on behalf of an organization. Permits persons acting on behalf of an organization that provides services to individuals at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose or training in the a...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Health Committee
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