HB66
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Campbell |
Public schools; fire drills, timing and frequency. |
Summary:
Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency.Requires every public school to hold fire drills during the schoolsession in accordance with the requirements of the Statewide FirePrevention Code.
Current law requires such fire drills to be conductedat least twice during the first 20 school days of each school sessionand at least twice more during the remainder of the school session.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/25/2024 - Enrolled 3/25/2024 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB66ER) 3/26/2024 - Signed by Speaker 3/27/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB66ER) 3/27/2024 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
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Senate Committee Actions:
3/6/2024 - Senate requested conference committee 3/7/2024 - Conferees appointed by Senate 3/7/2024 - Senators: VanValkenburg, Bagby, Durant 3/8/2024 - Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) 3/25/2024 - Signed by President
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K-12 Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
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HB98
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Green |
Public secondary schools; satisfaction in physical education requirement, participation in Jr. ROTC. |
Summary:
Public secondary schools; satisfaction of physical education requirements; participation in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
Permits each local school board to accept participationin the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps as fulfillment of any physical education requirements applicable to students in grades nine through 12.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
3/7/2024 - VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N) 3/25/2024 - Enrolled 3/25/2024 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB98ER) 3/26/2024 - Signed by Speaker 3/27/2024 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
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Senate Committee Actions:
3/4/2024 - Senate requested conference committee 3/6/2024 - Conferees appointed by Senate 3/6/2024 - Senators: VanValkenburg, Pekarsky, Suetterlein 3/8/2024 - Conference report agreed to by Senate (35-Y 5-N) 3/25/2024 - Signed by President
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K-12 Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
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HB145
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Reid |
Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps; established. |
Summary:
Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps established.Establishes the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps for thepurposes of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondaryschool teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awardingscholarships to students seeking to obtain teaching degrees and certificationsat participating institutions and requiring such students upon completionof their degree or certificate to fill teaching positions for oneyear for each year of scholarship receipt at a high-need school,as defined pursuant to federal law.
The bill also creates the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps Scholarship Fund and Program forthe purpose of funding such scholarships at the participating institutionsof Longwood University, Norfolk State University, Radford University,and Virginia Commonwealth University. Finally, the bill establishes the 12-member Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps Commissionto administer the Program and directs the Commission to begin meetingon or after September 1, 2024, and to establish the parameters forthe Program and award the first scholarships prior to the beginningof the 2025-2026 academic year.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
1/17/2024 - Referred to Committee on Appropriations 1/18/2024 - Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education 1/19/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB145) 1/29/2024 - Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) 2/13/2024 - Left in Appropriations
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Elementary and Secondary Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N)
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HB166
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Keys-Gamarra |
Guidance and resources; composting programs in local school divisions. |
Summary:
Department of Education; guidance and resources;composting programs in local school divisions.
Requires the Departmentof Education to develop, post in a publicly accessible format andlocation on its website, and make available to any school board, uponrequest, guidance and resources relating to the establishment of localexperiential learning programs on the composting of organic material,including food waste, for sustainable purposes such as horticultureor micro-farming, including guidance and resources on available grantsand other sources of funding for such programs.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
1/22/2024 - Engrossed by House as amended HB166E 1/22/2024 - Printed as engrossed 24101864D-E 1/23/2024 - Read third time and passed House (58-Y 40-N) 1/23/2024 - VOTE: Passage (58-Y 40-N) 2/1/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB166E)
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Senate Committee Actions:
1/24/2024 - Constitutional reading dispensed 1/24/2024 - Referred to Committee on Education and Health 2/14/2024 - Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education 2/22/2024 - Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered 2/29/2024 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
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K-12 Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
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HB168
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Keys-Gamarra |
Homeless students; Dept. of Ed. shall develop a resource document on supports and services. |
Summary:
Department of Education; resource document on supports and services for homeless students.
Requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board a resource document containing guidance and best practices for providing the necessary supports and services to homeless students, including guidance and best practices relating to (i) decisions regarding whether and when such a student should remain enrolled in a school in a previous school division of residence, (ii) wrap-around supports and services for such students that include the parents when they are available and specific wrap-around supports and services for such students who may have experienced additional trauma prior to becoming homeless, and (iii) any other means by which such students can be best served and protected, particularly those homeless children and youths who are at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
2/29/2024 - Enrolled 2/29/2024 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB168ER) 2/29/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB168ER) 2/29/2024 - Signed by Speaker 3/11/2024 - Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/22/2024 - Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) 2/23/2024 - Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) 2/26/2024 - Read third time 2/26/2024 - Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) 3/3/2024 - Signed by President
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K-12 Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
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HB181
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Feggans |
School counselors; decreases public school staffing ratios. |
Summary:
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 boardper student enrolled in the local school division.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
1/17/2024 - Referred to Committee on Appropriations 1/18/2024 - Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education 1/24/2024 - Impact statement from DPB (HB181) 2/5/2024 - Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 2/7/2024 - Continued to 2025 in Appropriations
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Elementary and Secondary Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025
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HB187
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Clark |
Teachers; process and timeline for increasing salary. |
Summary:
Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average.
Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act enacted during any regular or special session of the General Assembly during 2025, 2026, or 2027 to fund, the Commonwealth's share of compensation supplement incentives for Standards of Quality-funded instructional and support positions sufficient to increase the average teacher salary in the Commonwealth to at least the national average teacher salary by the end of the 2026â2028 biennium and establishes a detailed timeline and process for satisfying such requirement. This bill is identical to SB 104.
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Fiscal Impact
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Last Five Actions:
4/8/2024 - Governor's recommendation received by House 4/8/2024 - Governor's substitute printed 24109259D-H3 4/17/2024 - House rejected Governor's recommendation (50-Y 50-N) 4/17/2024 - VOTE: REJECTED (50-Y 50-N) 4/17/2024 - Communicated to Governor
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Senate Committee Actions:
2/27/2024 - Committee amendments agreed to 2/27/2024 - Floor substitute by Senator McDougle ruled out of order 24108227D-S1 2/27/2024 - Engrossed by Senate as amended 2/27/2024 - Passed Senate with amendments (21-Y 18-N) 3/7/2024 - Signed by President
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Related Bills:
SB104 (Lucas) - Teachers; process and timeline for increasing salary.
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Elementary and Secondary Subcommittee
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Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
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