Summary: School Health Services Committee; report. Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 62.

Summary: Certain school board property; establishmentof gun-free zone permitted. Removes the authority of any schoolboard to deem any non-school zone building or property that it ownsor leases where employees of such school board are regularly presentfor the purpose of performing their official duties as a gun-freezone. Under current law, any school board may prohibit any individual,subject to exceptions, from knowingly possessing, purchasing, transferring,carrying, storing, or transporting firearms, ammunition, or componentsor combination thereof while such individual is upon such property.

Summary: Teaching or promotion of certain concepts in public elementary and secondary education; declaration as unlawful and discriminatory practice. Declares it an unlawful and discriminatory practice for any local school board or employee or contractor thereof to teach any public elementary or secondary school student to believe or promote to any such student as valid the belief that (i) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; (ii) an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; (iii) an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual's race or sex; (iv) an individual's moral character is necessarily determined by the individual's race or sex; or (v) an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex, but permits any local school board or employee or contractor thereof to teach to any public elementary or secondary school student content that includes the past or present belief, by any individual or group, in any such concept.

Summary: Department of Education; policy on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adopt model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to (i) ensuring parental notification; (ii) directly identifying the specific instructional material and sexually explicit subjects; and (iii) permitting the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and provide, as an alternative, nonexplicit instructional material and related academic activities to any student whose parent so requests. The bill provides that the local school board model policies may be more comprehensive than the model policies developed by the Department. The bill requires the Department to develop such model policies no later than July 31, 2022, and requires each local school board to adopt policies consistent with this act no later than January 1, 2023. The bill states that the provisions of the bill shall not be construed as requiring or providing for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary schools.

Summary: Public schools; instruction concerning gambling. Requires instruction concerning gambling and the addictive potential thereof to be provided by the public schools as prescribed by the Board of Education. The bill requires the Board of Education to report to the Chairmen of House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health a description of such instruction.

Summary: Board of Education; school boards; codes ofstudent conduct; contents. Requires the Board of Education'sguidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct to includea requirement that any code of student conduct is enforced and anystudent behavioral intervention or disciplinary method or measureis utilized in a fair, proportional, unbiased, and neutral manner,for the sole purpose of maintaining safe learning environments, andwith full and sole consideration of the student's behavior and withno consideration of any individual immutable characteristic of the student such as the student's sex or race. The bill requires eachschool board to establish and continuously maintain a system of fair,proportional, unbiased, and neutral student behavioral interventionand discipline and prohibits any school board from establishing ormaintaining any system of student behavioral intervention or discipline,including positive behavioral interventions and supports or any substantiallysimilar disciplinary method, that targets or differentiates studentbehavioral interventions or disciplinary methods or measures basedon any factor other than the student's behavior.

Summary: Loudoun County School Board; staggering of memberterms; lot drawing; timeframe. Requires the lot drawing requiredto be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determinethe members of four of nine districts who will be elected to theLoudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members ofthe remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun CountySchool Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of memberterms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board'sfirst meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.

Summary: 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 assault, or trespassing, each division superintendent to notify the parent of each student enrolled in the relevant school of such threat, threatening or aberrant behavior, or unlawful act.

Summary: Early childhood care and education entities; administration of epinephrine. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require each early childhood care and education entity to implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every such entity to be administered by any nurse at the entity, employee at the entity, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine to any child believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction. The bill mandates that such policies shall require that at least one school nurse, employee at the entity, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine has the means to access at all times during regular facility hours any such appropriate weight-based dosage of epinephrine that is stored in a locked or otherwise generally inaccessible container or area. This bill shall be known as Elijah's Law. This bill is identical to SB 737.