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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. [SB-575]
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 deems (a) such discharge poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self and others or (b) additional educational services are needed, such facility is required to provide to the school's mental health professional or school counselor the portions of such discharge plan relevant to the threat of violence
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Left In Education on 11/18/2024
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Public elementary & secondary schools; student athletes, pre-participation mental health assessment. [SB-395]
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 or squad with a predetermined roster, regular practices, and scheduled competitions with other elementary or secondary schools unless such student has submitted to the school principal a signed report from a licensed physician, licensed advanced practice registered nurse, or licensed physician assistant
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stella Pekarsky
Left In Education And Health on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Public elementary schools; incorporation of career & technical education into curricula. [HB-1091]
Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education; recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for incorporation of career and technical education into public elementary school curricula; report. Requires the Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education established by the Board of Education to develop and submit to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024, recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for the incorporation of career and technical education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores Oates
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures. [SB-619]
Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory education requirements by expanding the definition of "abused or neglected child" to include educational neglect and, therefore, requiring any teacher, attendance officer, or other person employed by such child's school, to report such neglect to the appropriate authority in accordance with pertinent law.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Todd Pillion
Left In Education And Health on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required. [SB-181]
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 of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual who is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency while on school grounds and, in the event that such school has an athletic department or organized athletic program, while attending or participating in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Aaron Rouse
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. [SB-575]
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 deems (a) such discharge poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self and others or (b) additional educational services are needed, such facility is required to provide to the school's mental health professional or school counselor the portions of such discharge plan relevant to the threat of violence
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Continued To 2025 In Education By Voice Vote on 02/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public schools; changes to student instructional time in public elementary & secondary schools. [SB-434]
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; (ii) establishing several provisions and requirements relating to the enrollment of part-time students in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) requiring the Board of Education to adopt rules for approving alternative programs for which course credit may be granted for the purpose of satisfying
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Suetterlein
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (8-y 7-n) on 02/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Computer trespass; Class 6 felony if committed against any elementary and secondary schools. [SB-442]
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 school board. 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 school board.
Sponsored by: Sen. Tara Durant
Left In Courts Of Justice on 03/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc. [SB-586]
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintendent or his designee finds that aggravating circumstances, as defined by the Department of Education, exist, any public elementary or secondary school student from being suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school without first considering at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stella Pekarsky
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures. [SB-619]
Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory education requirements by expanding the definition of "abused or neglected child" to include educational neglect and, therefore, requiring any teacher, attendance officer, or other person employed by such child's school, to report such neglect to the appropriate authority in accordance with pertinent law.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Todd Pillion
Continued To 2025 In Education And Health (15-y 0-n) on 02/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary & secondary schools; student athletes, pre-participation mental health assessment. [SB-395]
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 or squad with a predetermined roster, regular practices, and scheduled competitions with other elementary or secondary schools unless such student has submitted to the school principal a signed report from a licensed physician, licensed advanced practice registered nurse, or licensed physician assistant
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stella Pekarsky
Continued To 2025 In Education And Health (14-y 1-n) on 02/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Disorderly conduct; penalty. [HB-1319]
Disorderly conduct; penalty. Removes the prohibition on the applicability of the offense of disorderly conduct in public place to any elementary or secondary school student if the disorderly conduct occurred on the property of any elementary or secondary school, on a school bus, or at any activity conducted or sponsored by any elementary or secondary school.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary school students; parents' bill of rights established. [HB-1260]
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 the Commonwealth, including the right to review any books, curricula, or instructional materials being taught or made available to their child and the right to be notified of any situation that directly affects their child's safety at school.
Sponsored by: Rep. Geary Higgins
Left In Education on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Elementary & secondary schools & higher educational institutions; student participation in sports. [HB-1229]
Elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in sports; access to restrooms and changing rooms. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other school that is a member of the Virginia High School League, or by a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on biological sex: (i) males, men, or boys; (ii) females, women, or girls; or (iii) coed or mixed if participation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Geary Higgins
Left In Education on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public schools; changes to student instructional time in public elementary & secondary schools. [HB-1081]
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; (ii) establishing several provisions and requirements relating to the enrollment of part-time students in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) requiring the Board of Education to adopt rules for approving alternative programs for which course credit may be granted for the purpose of satisfying
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Incorporated By Education on 02/07/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures. [HB-767]
Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory education requirements by expanding the definition of "abused or neglected child" to include educational neglect and, therefore, requiring any teacher, attendance officer, or other person employed by such child's school, to report such neglect to the appropriate authority in accordance with pertinent law.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Left In Education on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary schools; incorporation of career & technical education into curricula. [HB-1091]
Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education; recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for incorporation of career and technical education into public elementary school curricula; report. Requires the Virginia Advisory Committee for Career and Technical Education established by the Board of Education to develop and submit to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024, recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for the incorporation of career and technical education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores Oates
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon. [HB-1039]
Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated glucagon; school board policies; donations. Permits any local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of undesignated nasal or injectable glucagon in each public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, provided that such policies are consistent with the guidance outlined in the most recent revision of the Diabetes Management In School: Manual for Unlicensed Personnel published by the Department of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0466) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Computer trespass; Class 6 felony if committed against any elementary and secondary schools. [HB-868]
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 elementary or secondary school or school board.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public schools; opioid antagonist administration, etc. [HB-732]
Public schools; opioid antagonist 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 develop, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Education, plans, policies, and procedures for (i) providing at each public secondary school that includes grades nine through 12 a program of instruction on opioid overdose prevention
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0451) on 04/04/2024