Bill Text: VA HB583 | 2024 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) [HB583 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-HB583-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 583 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on Education on February 7, 2024) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Simonds) A BILL to amend and reenact §22.1-291.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §22.1-291.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§22.1-291.1. Planning time for public elementary school teachers; data on lunch breaks.

A. Each school board shall ensure that all elementary school teachers in its employment are provided at least an average of 30 minutes per day during the students' school week as planning time.

B. The Department shall annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the share of teachers that are provided each working day a lunch break of at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties.