Bill Text: VA HB127 | 2022 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Governor's Schools, academic year; certain practices prohibited and required.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 30-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) [HB127 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2022-HB127-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 127 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on Education and Health on March 3, 2022) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Davis) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-26.2, relating to academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and required.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-26.2 as follows:

§22.1-26.2. Academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and required.

A. No academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof shall discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the process of admitting students to such school.

B. Each local school board that jointly manages and controls a regional academic year Governor's school pursuant to §22.1-26 shall collaborate to ensure that each public middle school that is eligible to send students to attend such Governor's school offers coursework, curriculum, and instruction that is comparable in content and in rigor in order to provide each student in each such middle school with the opportunity to gain admission to and excel academically at such Governor's school.