| VA | HB979 | Engross 50% | School board duties; appointment and employment of division superintendents; oversight. Requires each school board to appoint, employ, and provide oversight for a division superintendent and provides that nothing in the Code of Virginia or the regula... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| 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 | SB442 | Engross 50% | Computer trespass; elementary and secondary schools; school board; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for the offense of computer trespass when such offense is committed against any public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school or any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Courts of Justice 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 | HB963 | Engross 50% | Department of Education; survey; excess food donation; best practices. Requires the Department of Education to survey each school board to determine (i) whether it has an existing policy or practice relating to the donation of excess food, as that te... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB659 | Engross 50% | Board of Education; open school enrollment policies; guidance on best practices. Requires the Board of Education to develop and make available to each school board guidance on best practices relating to open school enrollment, including on several to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB1153 | Engross 50% | Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. Under current law, such... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N) |
| VA | HB1148 | Engross 50% | School boards; employment of counsel. Clarifies that any school board, whether elected or appointed, may employ the attorney for the Commonwealth or other counsel to advise it concerning any legal matter or to represent it, any member thereof, or any... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 VOTE: Defeated (49-Y 50-N) |