Education, Board of; policies for codes of student conduct, contents. [HB-1124]
Board of Education; school boards; codes of student conduct; contents. Requires the Board of Education's guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct to include a requirement that any code of student conduct is enforced and any student behavioral intervention or disciplinary method or measure is utilized in a fair, proportional, unbiased, and neutral manner, for the sole purpose of maintaining safe learning environments, and with full and sole consideration of the student's behavior and with no consideration of any individual immutable
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HB-1124: Education, Board of; policies for codes of student conduct, contents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Left In Education on 11/22/2022
School boards; parental notification of certain incidents, Alyssa's law-silent panic alarms. [HB-1125]
School boards; parental notification of certain threats, behavior, and unlawful acts; panic alarms. Requires, within four hours of receiving notification of (i) a preliminary determination by the threat assessment team that a student poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; (ii) threatening or aberrant behavior that may represent a threat to the school; or (iii) unlawful acts committed on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity that involve the unlawful use or possession of a weapon, homicide, criminal
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HB-1125: School boards; parental notification of certain incidents, Alyssa's law-silent panic alarms.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ronnie Campbell
Left In Education on 11/22/2022
School boards; parental notification of certain threats, behavior, and unlawful acts. [HB-1315]
School boards; parental notification of certain threats, behavior, and unlawful acts. Requires, within four hours of receiving notification of (i) a preliminary determination by the threat assessment team that a student poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self or others; (ii) threatening or aberrant behavior that may represent a threat to the school; or (iii) unlawful acts committed on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity that involve the unlawful use or possession of a weapon, homicide, criminal sexual
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HB-1315: School boards; parental notification of certain threats, behavior, and unlawful acts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Left In Education on 11/22/2022
Constitutional amendments; General Assembly and local elected officials, term limits (first refer.). [HJR-458]
Constitutional amendments (first reference); General Assembly and local elected officials; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three consecutive terms and members of the House of Delegates to six consecutive terms. The amendments provide that the limits apply to terms of service beginning on and after the start of the 2026 Regular Session of the General Assembly. The amendments also limit officials elected to any county, city, town, or constitutional office to three consecutive terms, except for persons elected to the office of the clerk
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HJR-458: Constitutional amendments; General Assembly and local elected officials, term limits (first refer.).
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/07/2023
Public elementary and secondary school libraries; catalog of printed and audiovisual materials, etc. [HB-1379]
Public elementary and secondary school libraries; catalog of printed and audiovisual materials; graphic sexual content; parental opt out and request for review. Requires the principal of each public elementary or secondary school or his designee to (i) maintain in an electronic spreadsheet or a substantially similar electronic format a catalog of all printed and audiovisual materials, as defined in the bill, that are contained in the school library; (ii) identify each item in such catalog by title, author, and such other identifying features or
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HB-1379: Public elementary and secondary school libraries; catalog of printed and audiovisual materials, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 02/16/2023
Marine Resources Commission; regulations for the management of menhaden. [HB-1381]
Marine Resources Commission; regulations for the management of menhaden. Removes the restriction preventing the Marine Resources Commission from adopting regulations for the management of menhaden outside of the time period between October 1 and December 31.
HB-1381: Marine Resources Commission; regulations for the management of menhaden.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Tabled In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources (22-y 0-n) on 01/18/2023
Menhaden reduction fishing; prohibition. [HB-1383]
Menhaden reduction fishing; prohibition. Prohibits menhaden reduction fishing in any territorial sea or inland waters of the Commonwealth for two years and prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from granting any permit for menhaden reduction fishing for two years. The bill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to prepare and submit a report relating to the environmental impact of menhaden reduction fishing in the territorial sea and inland waters of the Commonwealth to the Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake
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HB-1383: Menhaden reduction fishing; prohibition.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Tabled In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources (22-y 0-n) on 01/18/2023
Mental illness or emotional disturbance; administration of any medication for treatment, etc. [HB-1389]
Administration of controlled substances for treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbance; parental consent required. Provides that a minor shall not be deemed an adult for the purpose of consenting to administration of medication for the treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbance. Currently, a minor is deemed an adult for the purpose of consenting to medical and health services needed in the case of outpatient care, treatment, or rehabilitation for mental illness or emotional disturbance.
HB-1389: Mental illness or emotional disturbance; administration of any medication for treatment, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (10-y 5-n) on 02/16/2023
Constitutional amendment; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition (first reference). [HJR-460]
Constitutional amendment (first reference); repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related provisions that are no longer valid as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015).
HJR-460: Constitutional amendment; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition (first reference).
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/07/2023