| VA | HB536 | Veto | Student bullying; definition; characteristics of victim. Adjusts the definition of "bullying" in the context of public education to specify that the real or perceived power imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim that is involved in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB105 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB624 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB215 | Pass | Department of Education; development of Title IX and sexual harassment prevention training modules for students in the ninth and tenth grades. Requires the Department of Education to develop culturally appropriate, age-appropriate, and trauma-informe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| VA | HB615 | Pass | Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; purpose and duties; historically underrepresented students. Expands the purpose of the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board to include promoting the partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| VA | HB958 | Veto | Commission on Civic Education; model guidance on student participation in the work of local school boards. Requires the Commission on Civic Education, in conjunction with such stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to create and provide to each local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1505 | Pass | Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Makes several changes to existing provisions of law relating to compensation of a student-athlete at a public or private institution of higher education in the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| VA | HB253 | Pass | School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| VA | HB1247 | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| VA | HB617 | Pass | High school student-athletes; use of name, image, or likeness. Establishes rights, duties, and prohibitions relating to the use of the name, image, or likeness of high school student-athletes that are equivalent to those established in law for colleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| VA | SB433 | Pass | Board of Education; develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). Directs the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| VA | HB1365 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; release of student transcripts. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an academic transcript directly to the employer or prospective employer of a student currently or formerly enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| VA | HB1451 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments; expedited retakes; eligibility. Directs the Board of Education to revise its regulations relating to student eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning assessment, with the exception of the wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| VA | HB937 | Pass | Student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses. States that the intent of the General Assembly is that school boards encourage the implementation of innovative low-cost or no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| VA | SB21 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| VA | HB509 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| VA | HB980 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; students who report act of hazing or bullying experienced as result of report of act of hazing; on-campus mental and behavioral health support. Requires each public institution of higher education and nonprofit priva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| VA | HB1477 | Pass | Public schools; instructional time; competency-based education. Requires the Board of Education to provide local school boards maximum flexibility to waive existing instructional clock hour requirements by developing alternative instructional time mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| VA | HB168 | Pass | Department of Education; resource document on supports and services for homeless students. Requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board a resource document containing guidance and best practices for providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| VA | HB777 | Pass | Enrollment of and provision of free public education for certain students; kinship care and foster care. Provides that in the event that a student in a kinship care arrangement moves into a different school division during the school year as a result...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| VA | HB501 | Pass | School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments. Requires any divisionwide or public elementary or secondary school-specific school building evacuation plan, policy, or protocol to include provisions that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194) |
| VA | HB163 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; student identification cards; emergency services website page and telephone numbers. Requires each public institution of higher education to maintain and annually update as necessary to ensure accuracy and cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176) |
| 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 | SB264 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; school boards; student online activity; data collection, monitoring, and restrictions. Requires the Department of Education to establish reporting expectations for school divisions that collect student online activity data an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB842 | Engross
50% | Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. 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 activities, inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | SB575 | Engross
50% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB17 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB65 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1260 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary school students; parents' bill of rights established. Establishes, consistent with § 1-240.1 of the Code of Virginia, several enumerated rights for the parents of each public elementary or secondary school student in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB670 | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1319 | Intro
25% | Disorderly conduct; penalty. Removes the prohibition on the applicability of the offense of disorderly conduct in public place to any elementary or secondary school student if the disorderly conduct occurred on the property of any elementary or secon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB686 | Intro
25% | School meals; availability at no cost to students. Provides that each school board shall require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal Scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB411 | Intro
25% | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic and intramural extracurricular programs. Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic and intramural extracurricular programs. Prohibits public schools...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB538 | Intro
25% | Virginia Student Environmental Literacy Plan Grant Fund and Program established. Requires the Office of Environmental Education within the Department of Conservation and Recreation, in conjunction with the Department of Education and any other stakeh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB853 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; uniform system of discipline for disruptive student behavior. Requires the Department of Education to establish, within its regulations governing student conduct, and each school board to adhere to, a uniform system of discip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1094 | Intro
25% | Department of Education; school boards; student online activity; data collection, monitoring, and restrictions. Requires the Department of Education to establish, and each school board to adhere to, (i) requirements relating to the collection of data...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB931 | Intro
25% | Public high school students; economics education and financial literacy; benchmark assessment. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board an economics education and financial literacy benchmark assessment and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB929 | Intro
25% | Public high school students; civics benchmark assessment. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board a civics benchmark assessment and requires each school board to require each public high school student enrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1283 | Intro
25% | Students with individualized education programs or Section 504 Plans; emergency protocol and guide. Requires a protocol for individualized accommodations and supports during emergency situations at school and a step-by-step guide on how to execute su...
[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 | 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 | SB678 | Intro
25% | Intercollegiate athletics, student-athletes; compensation and representation for name, image, or likeness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 | 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 | 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 | HB386 | Intro
25% | Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | HB1081 | 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] | 2024-02-07
Incorporated by Education |
