| VA | SB1084 | Intro 25% | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily before or after regular school hours, during the summe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1437 | Intro 25% | Standards of Quality; class size limits; exception for certain fine and performing arts classes. Exempts any fine or performing arts class offered in grade six from the provision limiting the size of any class offered in grades four through six to no... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1354 | Intro 25% | Department of Education; Medicaid billing navigator positions; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish within the Department of Education two Medicaid billing navigator positions for the purpose of providing school divi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1264 | Intro 25% | Board of Education; career and technical education courses, pathways, and credentials; biennial review; report. Requires the Board of Education and the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, with the assistance of the Department of Workforce Develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 4:00 pm] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1293 | Intro 25% | School board employees; health care professionals; professional development and continuing education; optional programs; children with autism spectrum disorder. Directs the Board of Education to provide guidance on and each school board to provide ea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-01-24 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1380 | Intro 25% | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information rela... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 7:30 am] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1404 | Intro 25% | School boards; method of selection; election required. Requires election as the method of selecting the members of each school board in the Commonwealth and makes several changes to eliminate provisions relating to appointed school boards. Current la... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1381 | Intro 25% | Department of Education; mental health first aid training program. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop a mental health first aid training program consist... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 7:00 am] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | 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] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1102 | Intro 25% | Board of Education; programs of instruction; Safety First Comprehensive Drug Education Pilot Program established. Establishes the Safety First Comprehensive Drug Education Pilot Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1143 | Intro 25% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1244 | Intro 25% | Educational opportunities for children of certain federal employees; expansion of policies to students transferring from foreign countries. Expands the provisions of law relating to educational opportunities for students of certain federal employees ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB879 | Intro 25% | Board of Education; teacher licensure; career and technical education; alternative pathway to provisional licensure. Requires the Board of Education to issue a provisional license to any person seeking an initial license in the Commonwealth with an e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1149 | Intro 25% | Public school funding; composite index of local ability-to-pay; use value of real estate devoted to certain uses. Requires, for the purpose of determining the state and local shares of basic aid funding, that the composite index of local ability-to-p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1377 | Intro 25% | Department of Education; mental health first aid training program. Directs the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop a mental health first aid training program consist... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 7:00 am] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1441 | Intro 25% | Public middle schools; programs of instruction; Middle School Mathematics Innovation Program established. Establishes the Middle School Mathematics Innovation Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of assisting sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB898 | Intro 25% | Teachers; employment and licensure; locally awarded subject matter expert teaching credentials. Establishes, enumerates criteria for, and permits a division superintendent or a comprehensive community college to issue a locally awarded subject matter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 4:00 pm] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1462 | Intro 25% | High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits; certain substitutions permitted. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute the African American H... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 7:30 am] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1111 | Intro 25% | Public schools; student support services; student personal information and data security; registration; requirements; grants; report. Requires any student support agency, as defined by the bill, to register with the Department of Education in order t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1382 | Intro 25% | Department of Education; development of guidelines and information relating to virtual or online learning; public health emergencies. Provides for the Department of Education to develop and post on its official website guidelines and information rela... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 7:30 am] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1486 | Intro 25% | Public schools; student records and personal information; school-issued devices and school technology providers; protection of student personal information; policies and procedures. Establishes several requirements and restrictions for the purpose of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1230 | Intro 25% | Public schools; temporarily employed teachers; rules and requirements; extension of time limitation. Extends from 90 to 180 days the maximum period of time during one school year for which a school board may employ a temporarily employed teacher, as ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20 [Hearing: Jan 28] [Hearing: Jan 28 @ 4:00 pm] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB1303 | Intro 25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; diabetes medical care and management in public schools; policies, procedures, and requirements. The bill makes several modifications relating to the provision of medical care and management for students diagno... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20 [Hearing: Jan 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | 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 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | 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 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | 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 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | 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 28] To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |