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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	SB104	Enroll 75%	Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Communicated to Governor
VA	SB105	Enroll 75%	Public school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Communicated to Governor
VA	SB142	Enroll 75%	Public school teachers; licensure requirements; one-year local eligibility license; alternate routes and flexibility. Requires the Board of Education to include in its teacher licensure regulations provisions authorizing each school board, upon recom... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Communicated to Governor
VA	SB235	Veto	Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model polici... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Requires 2/3 members present
VA	SB448	Veto	Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Passed by for the day
VA	SB329	Veto	Compost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Passed by for the day
VA	SB582	Enroll 75%	Purchase, possession, and sale of retail tobacco products; retail tobacco products and liquid nicotine tax; penalties. Prohibits Internet sales of liquid nicotine or nicotine vapor products, except to a retail dealer, and prohibits the sale of retail... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
VA	SB608	Enroll 75%	Public education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education; Community School Development and Implementation Planning Grant; state goal. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 37-N)
VA	SB586	Veto	Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Passed by for the day
VA	SB54	Pass	Early childhood care and education system; need-based and demand-based funding. Requires, for the purpose of addressing family demand and preferences for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education services, state general funds to be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 757 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB272	Pass	Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 766 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB707	Pass	Public middle schools and high schools; student organizations; career and technical education organizations permitted. Permits each public middle school and high school to establish career and technical education student organizations, regardless of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 776 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB352	Pass	Teacher licensure; universal licensure by reciprocity. Establishes universal licensure by reciprocity as a category of teacher licensure in the Commonwealth for teachers who hold a valid out-of-state teaching license with full credentials and without... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 672 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB627	Pass	Department of Education and Virginia Community College System; College and Career Ready Virginia Program and Fund established. Establishes the College and Career Ready Virginia Fund and requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB283	Pass	Free school meals; stakeholder work group; report. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group to study the estimated impact of offering free school meals to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 586 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB60	Pass	Department of Education; guidelines for individualized education program teams relating to certain age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction; availability and posting. Requires the Department of Education to make available to each s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 493 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB441	Pass	School boards; employment verification; timing. Requires each school board to respond within 10 working days of receiving a request for employment verification of a former employee of the school board when such verification is sought by another schoo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 508 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB474	Pass	School Construction Program and Fund; career and technical education programs eligible. Clarifies that, for the purposes of eligibility to receive grants through the School Construction Fund and Program, "local school division" includes any joint or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 389 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB220	Pass	Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 502 (effective - see bill)
VA	SB314	Pass	Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 399 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB420	Pass	Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind Board of Visitors; membership; powers and duties; meetings. Expands the total membership of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind from 11 to 15 members by increasing the num... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 351 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB484	Pass	Public schools; certain local school divisions; youth and community violence prevention; Community Builders Pilot Program established; report. Establishes the Community Builders Pilot Program for the purpose of reducing youth involvement in behaviors... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357)
VA	SB702	Pass	Early childhood care and education; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependent children of military personnel and (i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259)
VA	SB5	Pass	STEM+C Competition Team Grant Program established. Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing (STEM+C) Competition Team Grant Program to encourage interest in STEM+C-related subject areas and support STEM+C-related e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151)
VA	SB28	Engross 50%	School boards; powers and duties; policies regarding cell phones and other handheld communication devices. Permits each school board to develop and implement a policy to prohibit the possession or use of cell phones and other handheld communication d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-06 To House Education Committee
VA	SB444	Engross 50%	School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-06 To House Education Committee
VA	SB181	Engross 50%	Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required; grant program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) that addresses the appropriate use ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	SB70	Engross 50%	SNAP; employment and training. Requires all local departments of social services to offer a voluntary employment and training program for SNAP benefits program participants from funds so appropriated. SNAP; employment and training. Requires all loca... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-28 Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
VA	SB563	Engross 50%	Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-23 To House Rules Committee
VA	SB27	Engross 50%	Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Public School Trades Incentive Fund (the Fund) and the Public School Trades Incentive Program (the Program) for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-15 To House Appropriations: Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
VA	SB498	Engross 50%	School-connected overdoses; policies relating to parental notification and response; requirements. Requires each division superintendent or his designee to notify the parent of each student in the local school division of any school-connected overdos... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-15 To House Education: K-12 Committee
VA	SB443	Engross 50%	Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-14 Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N)
VA	SB726	Engross 50%	Public schools; opioid antagonist Public schools; opioid antagonist procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Education Committee
VA	SB37	Intro 25%	Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence; parental notification of certain expressions and requests and parental permission for certain plans required; parental care. Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal or... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
VA	SB68	Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
VA	SB76	Intro 25%	Child day centers operated by religious institutions; exemption from licensure by Superintendent of Public Instruction. Exempts fully from the statutory requirement to be licensed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction any child day center that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N 1-A)
VA	SB75	Intro 25%	Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any child care subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States fro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Incorporated by Education and Health
VA	SB72	Intro 25%	Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized stud... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VA	SB228	Intro 25%	Public school funding; English language learner students and children with disabilities. Requires, in addition to the positions supported by basic aid, state funding, pursuant to the general appropriation act, to be provided to cover (i) the actual a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
VA	SB96	Intro 25%	Special education; Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Parental Behavior Technician Registration and Participation Pilot Program (the Pilot Program), to be developed and administered... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee
VA	SB351	Intro 25%	Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee
VA	SB127	Intro 25%	Public school staffing ratios; school counselors; specialized student support positions. Decreases from one to 325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselors required to be employed by each local school board per student enroll... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
VA	SB128	Intro 25%	Public school funding; certain calculations. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Stan... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
VA	SB407	Intro 25%	Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact. Enters the Commonwealth into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, the purpose of which is to facilitate the mobility of teachers across the member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through a new pat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
VA	SB518	Intro 25%	Public high schools; personnel; college and career specialist required. Requires each school board to employ at least one college and career specialist, as defined in the bill, in each public high school in the local school division. The bill provide... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee
VA	SB445	Intro 25%	Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local school board to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs as a tea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VA	SB227	Intro 25%	Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions; programs for at-risk students. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
VA	SB395	Intro 25%	Public elementary and secondary schools; student athletes; pre-participation mental health assessment 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee
VA	SB440	Intro 25%	Employment of school protection officers in public schools. Permits any local law-enforcement agency to employ in any public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, pursuant to an agreement with the local school board, a school p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee
VA	SB552	Intro 25%	Public schools; open school enrollment policies and guidance. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board by August 1, 2024, model policies and guidance relating to open school enrollment detailing certain condi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)