| 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) |
| VA | SB609 | Intro 25% | Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program, defined in the bill as any state funding provided for programs of prevention, intervention, or remediation or pursuant to the at-risk add-on for the purpose of suppo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| VA | SB434 | Intro 25% | Public schools; instructional time. Makes several changes relating to student instructional time in public elementary and secondary schools, including (i) defining "instructional hour" for the purpose of minimum annual instructional hour requirements... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB619 | Intro 25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory educat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB723 | Intro 25% | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB431 | Intro 25% | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives; requirements. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related act... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB387 | Intro 25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; policies and requirements relating to naloxone. Requires each local school board to develop, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Educ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | SB380 | Intro 25% | School board policies; alternative educational opportunities. Requires each school board to create a process allowing a qualified student, as defined in the bill, to access funding set aside for alternative educational opportunities, as defined in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB170 | Intro 25% | Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB533 | Intro 25% | Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB558 | Intro 25% | School choice educational School choice educational savings accounts. Permits the parents of qualified students to apply to the Department of Education for a renewable school choice education savings account, consisting of a monetary amount that is e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB421 | Intro 25% | Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes the Foster Child Scholarship Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB82 | Intro 25% | Concealed handgun permit; concealed weapons permit. Changes the concealed handgun permit to a concealed weapons permit. The bill provides that a person who obtains a concealed weapons permit may carry such concealed weapons in any place where a perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB84 | Intro 25% | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB83 | Intro 25% | Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria–holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N) |