| VA | SB490 | Engross
50% | Standards of Quality; specialized student support. Standards of Quality; specialized student support. Requires each school board to provide at least four specialized student support positions per 1,000 students. Under current law, each school board i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-17
Conference report agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB4 | Pass | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| VA | SB36 | Pass | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| VA | SB78 | Pass | Board of Education; driver education programs; parent/student driver education. Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| VA | HB1188 | Pass | Board of Education; Student Advisory Board established. Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education. Board of Education; Student Advisory Board established. Establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| VA | HB1298 | Veto | High school student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Prohibits any high school student-athlete who participates in an athletic competition from entering into any contract to receive compensation in relation to such student's athle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB161 | Pass | Department of Education; heat-related illness; guidelines. Directs the Department of Education, in conjunction with stakeholders, to develop guidelines on policies to inform and educate coaches and student athletes and their parents or guardians of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| VA | HB319 | Pass | Virginia Literacy Act; early student literacy; evidence-based literacy instruction; science-based reading research. Makes several changes relating to early student literacy, including requiring (i) each education preparation program offered by a publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| VA | HB355 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; website; posting of certain comparative data relating to undergraduate students. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| VA | HB583 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular school activities. Requires each school board to adopt policies that prohibit the school board or any school board employee from denying a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| VA | SB616 | Pass | Virginia Literacy Act; early student literacy; evidence-based literacy instruction; science-based reading research. Makes several changes relating to early student literacy, including requiring (i) each education preparation program offered by a publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| VA | HB484 | Pass | Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; exemption for postsecondary students. Exempts from mandatory participation in the Virginia Initiative for Education and Work recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families who are enrolled full time ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| VA | HB582 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; notice to students; SNAP benefits. Requires each public institution of higher education to ensure that all students have access to accurate information about the Supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| VA | SB431 | Pass | Department of Education; COVID-19; guidelines; alternative to quarantine. Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to (i) recommend options for isolation and quarantine for students and employees at public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| VA | HB1299 | Pass | Department of Education; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; instruction concerning post-graduate opportunities for high school students. Requires the Department of Education to collect and distribute to public schools and publicly post o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| VA | SB738 | Pass | Department of Education; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; instruction concerning post-graduate opportunities for high school students. Requires the Department of Education to collect and distribute to public schools and publicly post o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| VA | SB724 | Pass | School boards; student home broadband access; annual report. Requires, beginning in the 2022 school year and in each school year thereafter through the 2025 school year, each school board to submit an annual report to the Virginia Department of Educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) |
| VA | SB656 | Pass | Department of Education; local school boards; policies on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop no later than July 31, 2022, model policies and each local school board to adopt no later t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0100) |
| VA | HB938 | Pass | Board of Education; stakeholder group; evaluation of and recommendations for certain current and proposed policies and performance standards for public elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Superint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099) |
| VA | SB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; specialized student support. Requires each school board to provide at least four specialized student support positions per 1,000 students. Under current law, each school board is required to provide at least three such positions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| VA | SB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; English language learners. Requires state funding to be provided to support, in the 2022-2023 school year and thereafter, a new divisionwide ratio of English learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teachin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-07
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB89 | Engross
Sine Die | Disorderly conduct; students in grades kindergarten through grade eight. Provides that the crime of disorderly conduct shall not apply to any student in grades kindergarten through eight if the disorderly conduct occurred on the property of any eleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-04
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (13-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB406 | Engross
Sine Die | Higher education; students and student organizations; remedies for certain violations. Permits any student or student organization aggrieved by a violation of certain provisions of law relating to campus free speech by a public institution of higher ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB511 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2022-03-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Teaching or promotion of certain concepts in public elementary and secondary education; declaration as unlawful and discriminatory practice. Declares it an unlawful and discriminatory practice for any local school board or employee or contractor ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB539 | Engross
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; criminal history. Requires each public institution of higher education to include a disclosure to each applicant that certain criminal convictions may disqualify such applicant from pursuing his intended cours...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-24
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HB1009 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; policy on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adopt model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional materi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB59 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Public education; student education accounts. Permits any school board to establish a program to create savings accounts for students to be used for alternative educational programs. The bill requires the Department of Education to establish policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; per student enrollment-based funding; noncredit workforce training programs. Requires the per student enrollment-based funding provided to public institutions of higher education to include funding for each Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB201 | Intro
Sine Die | In-person instruction; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that any school board does not provide the option of in-person instruction as the sole method of instruction for any enrolled student, the parent of any such student who wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; policy on sexually explicit instructional material. Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each local school board to comply with, a policy to require each public elementary or secondary school to (i) notify the parent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB371 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensed school board employees; cultural competency training; bullying of Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Requires the Board of Education's guidance on cultural competency training for licensed school board employees to include a model...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; English language learners. Requires state funding to be provided to support new divisionwide ratios of English learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions, as follows: (i) for each English l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB522 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1347 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education instruction; school year time limit. Requires each school board that offers a family life education curriculum to limit instruction delivered to students pursuant to such curriculum to one hour per school year in each grade leve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia student environmental literacy; plan; grant fund and program. Requires the Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Health, any other stakeholder that it deems appropriate, and the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1036 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; requirement for students to wear masks or other face coverings; evidentiary substantiation. Prohibits any local school board from requiring any student enrolled at a public elementary or secondary school in the local school divis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; assessing individual student growth. Requires the Department of Education to create or request proposals for a system for value-added modeling to assess growth of students in public schools. The bill requires each school boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; school boards; codes of student conduct; contents. Requires the Board of Education's guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct to include a requirement that any code of student conduct is enforced and any student ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Treatment of transgender students; model policies. Eliminates the requirement that each school board adopt policies that are consistent with the model policies developed by the Department of Education concerning the treatment of transgender students ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (11-Y 11-N) |
| VA | HB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Students who need or use augmentative and alternative communication; instruction; eligibility; staff training. Provides that no student who needs or uses augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), which the bill defines as any device, tool, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Stricken from docket by Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Treatment of transgender students; model policies. Eliminates the requirement that each school board adopt policies that are consistent with the model policies developed by the Department of Education concerning the treatment of transgender students ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Schools; athletics; participation in female sports; civil cause of action. Requires each elementary or secondary school or a private school that competes in sponsored athletic events against such public schools to designate athletic teams, whether a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; debt collection; fees. Limits the fee for collection of student debt on behalf of a public institution of higher education to 15 percent of the amount due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Emergency Aid Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Student Emergency Aid Fund and Program for the purpose of distributing emergency funds to students enrolled as full-time or part-time students at public and nonprofit private instit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken from docket by Education (22-Y 0-N) |
