Bill Text: VA HB501 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194) [HB501 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-HB501-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 501 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 8, 2024 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-137.4, relating to school building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments. ---------- Patron-- Cohen ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-137.4 as follows:

§22.1-137.4. School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments.

Any divisionwide or public elementary or secondary school-specific school building evacuation plan, policy, or protocol shall include provisions that seek to maximize the opportunity for students with mobility impairments to evacuate the school building alongside their non-mobility-impaired peers.