Virginia Subject | Education

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	SB723	Intro 25%	K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
VA	HB181	Intro 25%	Public school staffing ratios; school counselors. 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 enrolled in the local school division. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB328	Intro 25%	Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact. Enters the Commonwealth into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, the purpose of which is to facilitate the mobility of teachers across the member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through a new pat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Education 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	HB663	Intro 25%	School Divisions of Innovation; regulatory exemptions; clock hours of instruction. Requires the Board of Education's regulations relating to the designation of School Divisions of Innovation to require the local school board in the local school divis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB284	Intro 25%	Board of Education; criteria for initial renewable teacher licensure for certain individuals. Requires the Board of Education to issue an initial renewable license as a teacher to any applicant who (i) is enrolled in an accredited education preparati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB359	Intro 25%	Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories; federal fund deduction methodology; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB1384	Intro 25%	School boards; teachers; terms of employment; employment verification; requirement. Requires each school board to provide written verification of employment within 10 days of receipt of any request for employment verification from a former employee o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 2-N)
VA	HB485	Intro 25%	School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Education Committee
VA	HB582	Intro 25%	Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern... [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
VA	HB1009	Intro 25%	High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB977	Intro 25%	Expeditious resolution of complaints relating to certain student transportation safety issues. Requires each locality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, to expeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to the maximum ext... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Education Committee
VA	SB385	Intro 25%	Study; Board of Education; work group on the use of artificial intelligence technology in education; report. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to convene a work group to study a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
VA	HB1051	Intro 25%	Public education; dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment; high school graduation. Makes several changes relating to graduation from a public high school in the Commonwealth, including (i) eliminating the requirement for a student to complete one v... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Education Committee
VA	HB1212	Intro 25%	Standards of Learning assessments; virtual assessment administration; students with Individualized Education Programs; conditions and availability. Requires the Board of Education to offer virtual assessment administration as an alternative method of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 2-N)
VA	HB1383	Intro 25%	Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 2-N)
VA	HB1385	Intro 25%	School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Requires the clerk of any court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an off... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Education Committee
VA	HB21	Intro 25%	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]	2024-02-06 Incorporated by Transportation
VA	HB146	Intro 25%	Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any child care subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States fro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB535	Intro 25%	Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 To House Education Committee
VA	HB882	Intro 25%	Department of Education; model policy on student cell phone use during instructional time; local adoption. Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model policy whereby public elementary and second... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 To House Education Committee
VA	HB1007	Intro 25%	Department of Education; development and distribution of fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; requirements. Requires the Department of Education to develop, in collaboration with the Department of Health, a fentanyl education and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB1353	Intro 25%	Establishment of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Commission; report. Establishes the 16-member Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Commission as an advisory commission in the executive branch of state government for the purpose ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-01 Incorporated by Rules
VA	SB387	Intro 25%	Public elementary and secondary schools; policies and requirements relating to naloxone. Requires each local school board to develop, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Educ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-01 Incorporated by Education and Health
VA	HB408	Intro 25%	Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Education to periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorized child enrollm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB372	Intro 25%	Department of Education; Child Care Implementation and Substitute Employee Pool 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 est... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB1033	Intro 25%	Cost of competing adjustment; eligibility; certain school boards. Provides that the Accomack County School Board and the Northampton County School Board are eligible to receive the cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and suppor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB500	Intro 25%	Standards of Quality; Standards of Learning assessments; development and administration of assessments; assessments in languages other than English; requirements. Requires the Board of Education to develop all Standards of Learning assessments using ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Education Committee
VA	HB564	Intro 25%	Public schools; classified instructional support staff; competitive compensation; biennial review. Declares that it is a goal of the Commonwealth that its classified instructional support staff, defined in the bill as any individual who works more th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Education Committee
VA	HB563	Intro 25%	Board of Education; procedure for adjusting grievances; definition of "classified instructional support staff." Requires the Board of Education, for the purpose of its regulations that establish the procedure for adjusting grievances, to define "clas... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Education Committee
VA	HB828	Intro 25%	Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwide ratios of English language learner students in average daily membershi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB573	Intro 25%	Student safety and discipline; certain reports to school principals and division superintendents; form and scope. Requires local law-enforcement authorities to prepare in writing and provide to the principal or his designee and the division superinte... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Education Committee
VA	HB627	Intro 25%	Early childhood care; Child Care Subsidy Program expansion; provision of free child care to certain child care provider employees. Requires the Child Care Subsidy Program, established pursuant to applicable regulations, to be expanded to assist emplo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB761	Intro 25%	Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions; programs for at-risk students. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB475	Intro 25%	Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-29 Incorporated by Education
VA	SJR9	Intro 25%	Study; JLARC; effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other relevant factors on teacher recruitment and retention; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effect of salaries, employment benefits, and other ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Rules (Voice Vote)
VA	HB347	Intro 25%	School board employees; civil cause of action against principals, division superintendents, and school boards for workplace injuries. Permits any school board employee who suffers bodily injury in the course of his employment on school board property... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-26 To House Courts of Justice Committee
VA	SB139	Intro 25%	Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathways to the advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seals. Directs the Board of Education to establish two pathways to the advanced studies high school diploma, and associated diplom... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
VA	SB380	Intro 25%	School board policies; alternative educational opportunities. Requires each school board to create a process allowing a qualified student, as defined in the bill, to access funding set aside for alternative educational opportunities, as defined in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
VA	SB170	Intro 25%	Board of Education; out-of-school time programs; exemptions from licensure; conditions and requirements. Exempts from licensure any out-of-school time program that (i) serves only school-age children; (ii) operates primarily after or before regular s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 To Senate Education and Health Committee
VA	SB533	Intro 25%	Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
VA	SB421	Intro 25%	Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes the Foster Child Scholarship Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
VA	SB558	Intro 25%	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	HB10	Intro 25%	High school graduation requirements; passing score on select questions from the 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 wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Stricken from docket by Education (21-Y 0-N)
VA	HB41	Intro 25%	Standards of Learning; programs of instruction; civics education; instruction on local government. Requires the Board of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for Virginia and United States Government for grade 12 and requires each school... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 To House Education Committee
VA	HB271	Intro 25%	Public secondary schools; naloxone procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal instruction; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board to de... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB497	Intro 25%	Public secondary schools; naloxone procurement, possession, and administration; school board employee training and certification; opioid overdose prevention and reversal training program; guidelines and requirements. Requires each local school board ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Incorporated by Education
VA	HB1079	Intro 25%	College partnership laboratory schools; Early College Model Program established. Establishes the Early College Model Program whereby any public institution of higher education may establish a college partnership laboratory school in which each enroll... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-22 Stricken from docket by Education (21-Y 0-N)