| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB444 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | SB575 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB575 | Engross
Prefile | 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 | SB37 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | SB678 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | SB395 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | SB431 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB431 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB84 | 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] | 2024-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
