| VA | SB181 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required; grant program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) that addresses the appropriate use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB696 | Engross
50% | Establishment of recovery high schools; authorization in certain Superintendent's regions. Authorizes any school board that governs a school division located in Superintendent's Region 2, 4, or 7 to establish a recovery high school in the relevant sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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 | HB677 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; employment of certified school library specialists. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ in the Department of Education at least one certified school library specialist who fulfills several...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB535 | Engross
50% | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HJR67 | Engross
50% | Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study fair school funding reform; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB166 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; guidance and resources; Department of Education; guidance and resources; composting programs in local school divisions. Requires the Department of Education to develop, post in a publicly accessible format and location on its...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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 | SB70 | Engross
50% | SNAP; employment and training. Requires all local departments of social services to offer a voluntary employment and training program for SNAP benefits program participants from funds so appropriated. SNAP; employment and training. Requires all loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB360 | Engross
50% | Superintendent of Public Instruction; duties; fixed and actual school staffing ratios. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially calculate, compare, and report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly the differences b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1375 | Engross
50% | Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers. Provides that any locality wishing to participate in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) must submit a proposal by May 15 of each year identifying a lead VPI agency responsible for de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB27 | Engross
50% | Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Public School Trades Incentive Fund (the Fund) and the Public School Trades Incentive Program (the Program) for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB79 | Engross
50% | Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB563 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; Virginia Community College System; regional career and technical education program. Directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Rules Committee |
| 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 | 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 | SB146 | Engross
50% | Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; Prince Edward County. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Incorporated by Finance |
| VA | HB13 | Intro
25% | High school graduation requirements; passing score on select questions from U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require, except in the case of a high school student whose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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 | HB60 | Intro
25% | Sales tax; school construction. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue used only for capital pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB72 | Intro
25% | Public schools; threat assessment teams; duties; annual meeting with chief law-enforcement officer of locality or a designee from the local law-enforcement agency. Requires the threat assessment team established by the division superintendent for eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB458 | Intro
25% | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance 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 | HB83 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive community colleges and school boards; dual enrollment agreements; parameters. Requires dual enrollment agreements between comprehensive community colleges and school boards to permit any student to complete an associate degree, the Pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB600 | Intro
25% | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB702 | Intro
25% | Public school funds; state share for basic aid; basic aid and supplemental basic aid payment limit. Removes the cap on an adjustment of the state share of aid provided to a school division, which limited such adjustment to the sum of the basic aid pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB507 | Intro
25% | Careers in Law Enforcement Incentive Grant Program established. Requires the Department of Education, with such funds as may be appropriated for such purpose pursuant to the general appropriation act, to establish and administer the Careers in Law En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB616 | Intro
25% | Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; City of Newport News. Adds the City of Newport News to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB222 | Intro
25% | Child day centers operated by religious institutions; exemption from licensure by Superintendent of Public Instruction. Exempts fully from the statutory requirement to be licensed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction any child day center that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB752 | Intro
25% | Threats of death or bodily injury to persons on school property; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to orally make a threat to kill or do serious bodily injury to any person, regarding that person, while that person is (i) on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB757 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; model policies on parental review of instructional material; local adoption. Requires the Board of Education to adopt and distribute to each school board model policies requiring any instructional material used in any public eleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB365 | Intro
25% | Department of Education and Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; work group; regional workforce development and child care initiative in Southwest Virginia; report. Requires the Department of Education and the Department of Workforce ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB984 | Intro
25% | Early childhood care and education; expansion of Head Start program availability at comprehensive community colleges; work group. Requires the Department of Education and the Virginia Community College System to convene a stakeholder work group to ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules 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 | HB1020 | Intro
25% | High school family life education curricula; programs on crime of sexual extortion. Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education 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 | HB708 | Intro
25% | National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1026 | Intro
25% | Sex offenses prohibiting working on school property; penalty. Adds certain offenses involving children, including kidnapping, trafficking, sex crimes, and prostitution and commercial sex crimes, to the list of offenses that would prohibit an adult if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB667 | Intro
25% | Virginia Education Success Account Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1180 | Intro
25% | Tax credit; eligible education expenses; home instruction and private education. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2024 through 2028 that may be claimed by any parent of a child who receives home instruction or attends a private elementary or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| 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) |
| 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 | HB1219 | Intro
25% | School boards; school resource officers; employment; participation in development and review of school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each school board to (i) seek, to the maximum extent practicable, to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1230 | Intro
25% | Certain school board employees; possession of firearms on school property. Permits any school board to authorize any school board employee to possess a firearm on school property, in addition to those individuals expressly authorized to possess such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety 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 | HB1528 | Intro
25% | Celeste's Law; school boards; bathroom check policy required. Requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that requires an employee in each public elementary and secondary school, including any school resource officer or any school secur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1540 | Intro
25% | The Virginia African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous Education Advisory Board; establishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1437 | Intro
25% | Sales tax; school construction. Adds the City of Portsmouth to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an extra one percent local sales tax to provide revenue for constructing or renovating schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB482 | Intro
25% | Reports of certain arrests and convictions of school employees; timing; method. Requires any probation and parole officer who is supervising a person employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth, upon discovering that such supervised perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB495 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; Standards of Quality; Standards of School Safety. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to establish pursuant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
