| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Attendance |
Vetoed 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Allows a child receiving kinship care from a close relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bill also allows local school divisions to require one legal parent and the kinship care provider to sign affidavits detailing the kinship care arrangement as well as a power of attorney authorizing the close relative to make educational and medical decisions regarding the child.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB217ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 217
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for corporations donating cash or property to nonprofit organizations providing education improvement scholarships to students who would have been eligible for the free and reduced lunch program under federal law, in order for them to attend nonpublic elementary or secondary schools. Nonprofit organizations to which donations are made would be required to distribute at least 90 percent of their tax-credit-derived funds for such scholarships. The credit would equal 70 percent of the donation made by the corporation and would be refundable. Any corporation taking a charitable deduction on its federal income tax return would be required to add that amount back to its Virginia taxable income in order to receive the credit. There is a $10 million annual cap for the credits.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB321ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 321
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Civic Education--Character Education |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school board, either within its existing programs or as a separate program, may provide its character education program during the regular school year, during the summer in a youth development academy offered by the school division, or both. The Department of Education shall develop curricular guidelines for school divisions to use in establishing a character education program through a summer youth development academy.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1179ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1179
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires local school boards and community colleges to develop agreements allowing high school students to complete an associate's degree or a one-year Uniform Certificate of General Studies from a community college concurrent with a high school diploma.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0794+pdf
Title: H.B. 1184
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to modify the credits necessary for a student to earn a standard or an advanced studies diploma. The advanced studies diploma shall be the recommended diploma for students pursuing baccalaureate study. The standard diploma shall include a concentration in career and technical education and a requirement to earn a career and technical education credential. Standard or advanced studies diploma will require the successful completion of one virtual course. The modified standard diploma is eliminated, but the Board shall make provisions in regulation for students with disabilities to earn a standard diploma. This bill is identical to SB 489.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1061ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1061
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Public schools; reading intervention. Requires local school divisions to provide reading intervention services to students in grade three who demonstrate deficiencies based on their individual performance on the Standards of Learning reading test or any reading diagnostic test that meets criteria established by the Department of Education. The local school division, at its discretion, shall provide such intervention before promotion to grade four.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1181ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1181
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Attendance--Truancy |
Vetoed 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2013, to address truancy. In promulgating these regulations, the Board shall address the following: (i) provisions for early intervention at the school level for repeated unexcused absences; (ii) identification of and a plan to address a student's academic, social, familial, and other barriers that impede attendance in school; and (iii) arrangement of conferences that may be necessary between school personnel, students, parents, and community services providers, as appropriate, to address plans and strategies to improve student attendance, including but not limited to, referrals to family assessment and planning teams.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB886ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 886
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides unsuccessful charter school applicants with an opportunity to testify before the Board of Education. The local school board must submit sufficient documentation as to the rationale for the denial or revocation of the charter school application and a detailed explanation demonstrating that the charter school is not in the public interest or for the welfare of the students eligible to attend the proposed charter school. The Board of Education continues to have no authority to grant or deny a public charter school application or to revoke or fail to renew a charter agreement. The bill also provides that (i) a local school board shall no longer have the discretion to revoke a charter if it finds the school is no longer in the public interest or for the welfare of the students; (ii) local school boards may elect whether charter school personnel are employees of the charter school or of the local school board granting the charter; (iii) the amount of funds provided to the charter school by the local school board shall not be less than 90 percent of the school division's state and local share of the Standards of Quality per pupil funding; and (iv) the local school board shall allow a public charter school to lease or purchase vacant or unused properties or real estate owned by the school board.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1173ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1173/S.B. 440
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school divisions may have policies that provide for the open enrollment to any school of any student residing within the school division upon the request of a parent or guardian. The bill describes optional criteria for local school boards to consider when developing any such plan.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB603ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 603
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2013 for individuals, business entities, and corporations making monetary donations to nonprofit organizations providing education improvement scholarships to students whose family's annual household income is not in excess of 300 percent of the current poverty guidelines and certain students with disabilities, in order for them to attend nonpublic elementary or secondary schools. Nonprofit organizations to which donations are made would be required to distribute at least 90 percent of such donations in the form of scholarships to such students. The credit would equal 65 percent of the donation made and any unused credit for the taxable year could be carried forward for five years. There is an annual cap of $25 million in tax credits for the scholarship program. The Department of Education would administer the tax credit program.
Expands the current Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit program by increasing the tax credit percentage from 40 to 65 percent; raising the cap on education proposals from $4.9 million to $8 million, which has the effect of raising the total cap on the program from $11.9 million to $15 million; expanding the eligibility criteria for programs qualifying for tax credits to encompass programs providing services to certain students with disabilities and individuals whose family's annual household income is not in excess of 300 percent of the poverty guidelines; allowing unused credits at the end of the year to be distributed to neighborhood organizations that had previously met the $500,000 cap on tax credits; and extending the sunset for the program to July 1, 2017. Incorporates SB 241.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0731+pdf
Title: S.B. 131
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Eliminates several statewide mandates on local and regional government entities relating to education and land use. The bill does the following:
* Removes the requirement for establishing local advisory committees on gifted education and the annual reporting by such committees
* Eliminates the requirement to provide the estimated per pupil cost for public education of individual school to each parent or guardian of the enrolled child
* Removes the requirement that proceeds from the sale of local education surplus property be applied to capital improvements
* Removes the requirement for economic and financial literacy courses in middle and high school
* Eliminates the requirement to establish a school health board
* Removes annual contract requirements for community service boards
* Eliminates Internet policy mandates on local libraries
* Changes requirement to give first priority for vending contracts to the blind from mandatory to a local option
* Removes the requirement for economic and financial literacy courses in middle and high school
* Repeals the requirement for civics training for teachers in order to renew license
The bill also makes technical changes. The bill is identical to SB 679.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0805+pdf
Title: H.B. 1295/S.B. 679
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Vetoed 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations governing physical education requirements in public schools. The Board shall promulgate the regulations to be effective beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+SB471ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 471
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations governing physical education requirements in public schools. The Board shall promulgate the regulations to be effective beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0786+pdf
Title: H.B. 1092
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Alters the function of the Open Education Curriculum Board from a policy board to an advisory board. In its new role, the Open Education Curriculum Board shall advise the Governor and the Board of Education on the creation, collection, categorization, distribution, and licensing of open educational resources and the integration of those resources with Virginia's Standards of Learning.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0807+pdf
Title: S.B. 45
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Reorganizes the executive branch of state government and certain local transportation entities including:
Eliminates the Child Day-Care Council and assigns responsibility for regulating child day programs to the State Board of Social Services. The bill increases the membership of the State Board from nine to 11 members and adds a requirement that at least two members of the State Board of Social Services be child care professionals and provides that regulations promulgated by the Child Day-Care Council shall remain in full force and effect until regulations are promulgated by the State Board of Social Services, [Enactments 83-86; HJR 49 #30]
Moves the responsibility of providing environmental education programs from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Department of Conservation and Recreation, [Enactment 87; HJR 49 #31]
Eliminates the Department of Correctional Education. The bill divides the provision and administration of education in correctional institutions between the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice, with supervision by a newly created Division of Correctional Education within the Department of Juvenile Justice, [Enactments 108-109; HJR 49 #39 and #40]
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0803+pdf
Title: H.B. 1291
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every school. The school nurse, a school board employee, or an authorized and trained volunteer may adminster the epinephrine to any student believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction. The bill also requires the Department of Health, in conjunction the Department of Education and the Department of Health Professionals to develop and implement policies for the recognition and treatment of anaphylaxis in the school setting. This bill is identical to SB 656.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0787+pdf
Title: H.B. 1107/S.B. 656
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Adds individuals associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children and any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education to the list of individuals required to report suspected child abuse or neglect; reduces the time limit for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect by mandated reporters from 72 hours to 24 hours; increases the penalty for a second or subsequent failure to report from not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 to a fine of not less than $1,000; provides that, in cases evidencing acts of rape, sodomy, or object sexual penetration, a person who knowingly and intentionally fails to make the required report shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor; and provides that no mandatory reporter shall be required to make a report if the person has actual knowledge that the same matter has already been reported to the local department or the Department's toll-free child abuse and neglect hotline. This bill incorporates SB 265, SB 296, SB 303 and SB 622.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0815+pdf
Title: S.B. 239
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Adds any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education to the list of individuals required to report suspected abuse or neglect of a child.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB970ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 970
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires that the description of the curriculum, which a parent electing to provide home instruction to his child in lieu of school attendance must submit to the school division superintendent, shall be limited to a list of subjects to be studied during the coming year.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1208ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1208
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Minority/Diversity Issues |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to annually publish disciplinary offense and outcome data by race, ethnicity, gender, and disability for each public school in the Commonwealth on its website.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB367ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 367
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education to publish data on the proportion of graduates with employment at 18 months and five years after the date of graduation. The data shall include the major and degree program, percentage of employment in the Commonwealth, average salary, and average higher education-related debt of graduates. The provisions of this bill will expire on June 30, 2017.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB639ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 639
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Postsecondary Affordability |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Provides that the board of visitors of every public institution of higher education shall establish policies requiring the registrar to place an administrative hold on student registration, records, and grades for a period of at least three months prior to referring a student account to collections for nonpayment.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB703ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 703
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $125,594,000 plus financing costs, pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia, for paying costs of acquiring certain revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher learning. The bill declares that an emergency exists and it is effective upon passage.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+sum+HB54
Title: H.B. 54
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Increases the minimum amount of vehicle liability insurance required to be carried by public schools in the instances of property damage, medical expense payment coverage, and accidents when all persons are injured. The bill also requires taxicabs providing transportation of students under contract with a school division to have certain minimum amounts of vehicle liability insurance.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB93ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 93
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires each school board to ensure that aides assigned to work with a teacher who has primary oversight of students with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate competency in student behavioral management within 60 days of assignment to such responsibility. The bill also requires the Board of Education to provide standards that school divisions may use to establish a measure for the demonstration of competency in student behavioral management.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0755+pdf
Title: H.B. 325
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that the Virginia Disability Commission establish work groups to assist the Commission in carrying out its powers and duties. Such work groups include work groups that focus on issues related to (i) housing and transportation, (ii) education and employment, (iii) publicly funded services, and (iv) such other issues as the Commission may deem necessary. The bill also repeals the sunset provision for the Commission, which is set to expire July 1, 2012. This bill incorporates HB 1229.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0741+pdf
Title: H.B. 79
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Except for the Board of Medicine and the Board of Dentistry, requires the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professions, or any board named in Title 54.1 to accept the military training, education, or experience of a service member returning from active military service in the armed forces of the United States, to the extent that such training, education, or experience is substantially equivalent to the requirements established by law and regulations of the respective board for the issuance of any license, permit, certificate, or other document, however styled or denominated, required for the practice of any business, profession, or calling in the Commonwealth.
Provides that to the extent that the service member's military training, education or experience, or portion thereof, is not deemed substantially equivalent, the respective board shall credit whatever portion of the military training, education, or experience that is substantially equivalent toward meeting the requirements for the issuance of the license, permit, certificate, or other document.
Authorizes a regulatory board to require the service member to provide such documentation of his training, education, or experience as deemed necessary to determine substantial equivalency.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=121&typ=bil&val=hb938
Title: H.B. 938
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Extends the delay of the implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based that were not already in effect on June 30, 2008, with the exceptions of the graduation and completion rate index and the economics and financial literacy requirement, until July 1, 2013, unless such statutes or regulations are also specifically required by federal code, federal regulation, or court action.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0744+pdf
Title: H.B. 96
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that school records may be admissible in any matter where such records are material, provided that they are authenticated as true and accurate copies by the custodian of the records or by the person to whom the custodian reports, if they are different. Currently, such authenticated school records are only admissible in cases involving custody of the student or termination of parental rights.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB424ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 424
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Allows local school boards to develop a single, standardized form to obtain parental consent for the release of student data. If developed by the local school board, such form shall be used by Community Policy and Management Teams and the Departments of Health, Social Services, Correctional Education, Juvenile Justice, and Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1189ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1189
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations adjusting the formula for calculating the final high school accreditation status to add points for each student obtaining a diploma and certain industry certifications, state licensure, or occupational credential. The additional points shall only improve the accreditation status of a school and cannot be used to obtain or deny accreditation. This bill is identical to SB 514.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB642ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 642/S.B. 514
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Delays for one year the effective date of legislation providing that, where there is a national industry certification for career and technical education instructional personnel or programs for automotive technology, the Board of Education must make such certification a mandatory part of the career and technical education program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB1108ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1108
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires each local school board to report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of its annual operating budget allocated to instructional costs. The Board of Education shall include this information in the annual School Performance Report Card for each school division, as well as annually report the same to the House Committees on Appropriations and Education and to the Senate Committees on Finance and Health and Education. This bill incorporates HB 78.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB250ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 250
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
The Department of Education may establish an Innovation Technical Advisory Group, comprised of individuals with experience in the establishment and operation of charter schools, college partnership laboratory schools, and virtual school programs, or it may retain the services of individuals with such experience to provide technical assistance and advice to the Board in carrying out its duties relating to charter schools, college partnership laboratory schools, and virtual school programs.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB756ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 756
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Allows a 180-day conditional enrollment period for students who need more than two doses of the required hepatitis B vaccine, to allow for proper spacing of the vaccine doses. Current law allows a 90-day conditional enrollment period for the completion of any immunization schedule.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB1089ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1089
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Adds athletic coaches, directors, employees, and volunteers of private sports organizations and teams and administrators, employees, and volunteers of public or private day camps, youth centers, and youth recreation programs to the list of persons required to report suspected child abuse or neglect to the Department of Social Services.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB3ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 3
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations establishing standards for accreditation of public virtual schools that enroll students full time.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB1215ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1215
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Partnerships--University/School |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Allows a private institution of higher education that operates a teacher education program approved by the Board of Education to operate a college partnership laboratory school. Currently, only a public institution of higher education that operates a Board approved teacher education program may do so. Tuition may be charged for courses which the student receives college credit or for enrichment courses that are not required to achieve a Board approved high school diploma. This bill is identical to SB 475.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+oth+HB765FER122+PDF
Title: H.B. 765
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Institutions |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Provides that no Virginia public institution of higher education shall be authorized to enter into an indemnification agreement to indemnify any person or entity against damages arising from a sponsored project conducted by such institution. The bill contains technical amendments.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB764ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 764
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Clarifies that teachers of online courses and in college partnership laboratory schools shall, as a condition of employment requiring direct contact with students, provide written consent and the necessary personal information to obtain a search of the registry of founded complaints of child abuse and neglect maintained by the Department of Social Services.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB577ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 577
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education, in accordance with guidelines developed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to implement policies that award academic credit to students for educational experience gained from military service. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB195ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 195
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires public institutions of higher education, in accordance with guidelines developed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to implement policies that recognize the scheduling difficulties and obligations of active duty military personnel. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB548ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 548
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies that credits earned in academic subject area coursework as part of the Uniform Certificate of General Studies shall be transferable to a four-year public institution of higher education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB441ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 441
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires campus police to enter into mutual aid agreements with a local law-enforcement agency or the State Police for cooperation in providing assistance with the investigation of deaths and alleged rapes occurring on college campuses.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB302ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 302
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes threat assessment teams established by private nonprofit institutions of higher education to receive health and criminal history records of students for the purposes of assessment and intervention with individuals whose behavior may present a threat to safety. Provides that no member of a threat assessment team shall re-disclose any juvenile record information obtained or otherwise use any record of an individual beyond the purpose that such disclosure was made to the threat assessment team.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1152ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1152
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety to provide training on antibullying tactics to public school personnel and serve as a resource for school safety research, data and other information. This bill is identical to HB 504. The Center for School Safety shall:
(1) Provide training for Virginia public school personnel in school safety, on evidence-based antibullying tactics, and in the effective identification of students who may be at risk for violent behavior and in need of special services or assistance
(2) Serve as a resource and referral center for Virginia school divisions by conducting research, sponsoring workshops, and providing information regarding current school safety
(3) Maintain and disseminate information to local school divisions on effective school safety initiatives in Virginia and across the nation
(4) Collect, analyze, and disseminate various Virginia school safety data
(5) Encourage the development of partnerships between the public and private sectors to promote school safety in Virginia
(6) Provide technical assistance to Virginia school divisions in the development and implementation of initiatives promoting school safety
(7) Develop a memorandum of understanding between the Commissioner Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure collaboration and coordination of roles and responsibilities in areas of mutual concern, such as school safety audits and crime prevention
(8) Provide training for and certification of school security officers
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB271ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 271
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school division may transfer assistive technology devices purchased by the division for a child with a disability to a different school division to which the child transfers or to a state agency that provides services to a child with a disability upon the child's graduation or when a school division ceases to provide special education services for the student.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB382ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 382
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies that an institution of higher education may require that any accepted student provide a complete student record, including any mental health record, from not only his high school but also any other institution of higher education. This bill is identical to HB 852.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+SB375ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 375
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
Higher education; mental health and parental notification policies. Provides that any person licensed to diagnose and treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders who is treating a student may determine to withhold parental notification of a dependent student's mental health treatment if such person determines that the notification may result in substantial harm. Currently, only a physician or clinical psychologist could make such a determination. This bill is identical to SB 374.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB900ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 900/S.B. 374
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to develop licensure criteria for teachers who teach only online courses. The bill also provides that teachers who hold a Board issued five-year renewable license may teach online courses for which they are properly endorsed.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB578ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 578
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Shifts the date of effective contract renewal for those teachers without continuing contract status from April 15 to June 15. This bill is identical to HB 76.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+SB278ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 278/H.B. 76
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
Postsec. |
Increases the Department of Emergency Management's oversight of institutional crisis and emergency management plans by requiring institutions to certify in writing to the Department that the required annual reviews and functional exercises have been conducted. This bill is identical to SB 346.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB305ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 305/S.B. 356
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
P-12 |
Clarifies language relating to enrollment of students pursuant to a special power of attorney to correspond to language in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. This bill is identical to SB 190.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0029+pdf
Title: H.B. 640/S.B. 190
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec. |
Expands the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund to allow for awards from the fund to be used to encourage commercialization and to attract research talent at state institutions of higher education.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB1485ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 1485/H.B. 2324
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec. |
Ensures that the established in-state tuition eligibility must not be affected by the establishment and maintenance of a place of residence in another jurisdiction for the purpose of maintaining a joint household with such member. Also provides that the spouse of an active-duty military service member, if such spouse has established domicile and claimed a dependent student on federal or state income tax returns, must not be subject to minimum income tests or requirements. http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0782
Title: H.B. 1848/S.B. 1279
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that any school board, on behalf of one or more of its schools, may request from the Board of Education releases from state regulations and approval of an individual School Accreditation Plan.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2494ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 2494
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to take into account in its guidelines for the Virginia Index of Performance program a school division's increase in enrollments and elective course offerings in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0119+pdf
Title: H.B. 2172/S.B. 953
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Adds the act of excluding students from testing who are required to be assessed to the conditions under which the Board of Education may (i) bring a cause of action, (ii) suspend or revoke an administrative or teaching license, or (iii) initiate or cause to be initiated a review or investigation of any alleged break in security, unauthorized alteration, or improper administration of tests. The bill clarifies that any cause of action brought on behalf of the Board of Education may not be brought against a student enrolled in a public school.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0248+pdf
Title: H.B. 2077
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds a fifth citizen member to the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and specifies that such member must be a representative from a military installation in Virginia. Such representative is to be appointed by the Governor.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0106+pdf
Title: H.B. 1976
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Codifies in the Standards of Quality the flexibility to use funds provided in the appropriation act and provided to local school divisions for certain staffing standards related to instructional staff in mathematics, limited English proficiency, reading, technology, and assistant principals. Additionally, amends the definition of ''support services."
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0055+pdf
Title: H.B. 1792/S.B. 1270
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that where there is a national industry certification for career and technical education instructional personnel or programs for automotive technology, the Board of Education must make such certification a mandatory part of the career and technical education program. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2012.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0388+pdf
Title: H.B. 1493
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that the Commission on Civics Education will continue until July 1, 2012, if the Commission is funded by a separate appropriation in the general appropriation act or funded with nongeneral funds or donations to sustain its work.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB1054ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 1054
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Curriculum--Sex Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that any family life education curriculum offered by a local school division shall require the Standards of Learning objectives related to dating violence and the characteristics of abusive relationships to be taught at least once during middle school and at least twice during high school.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB906ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 906
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011 for the purpose of fueling strong economic growth in the Commonwealth and preparing Virginians for the top job opportunities in the knowledge-driven economy of the 21st century. The bill provides for (i) a new higher education funding policy; (ii) the calculation of the state general fund share of an institution's basic operations and instruction funding need; (iii) per student enrollment-based funding; (iv) targeted economic and innovation incentives; (v) the creation of a STEM Public-Private Partnership; and (vi) the creation of a Higher Education Advisory Committee. The bill also makes technical amendments. This bill is a recommendation of the Governor's Commission on Higher Education Reform, Innovation and Investment.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2510ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 2510/S.B. 1459
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Deletes references to educational programs that have not been funded and do not exist and updates language in other sections to conform to current practice.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0216+pdf
Title: H.B. 1885
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides that whenever a responsible public entity rejects a proposal initiated by a private entity that purports to develop specific cost savings, the public entity shall specify the basis for the rejection.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0308
Title: S.B. 1127
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows licensed nurse practitioners, in addition to physicians, registered nurses or local health department employees, to immunize public school students and to provide proof of such immunizations. Also, provides that a licensed nurse practitioner may provide written certification that an immunization may be detrimental to a child's health for purposes of compliance with health requirements for public school students, home-instructed children and children exempted or excused from school attendance.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0125+pdf
Title: H.B. 2291
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies regarding the granting of credit for Cambridge Advanced (A/AS) examinations. Also provides that each institution's policy for course credit for Cambridge Advanced (A/AS) courses must be comparable to its policies for granting course credit for Advanced Placement courses. Clarifies that students may be awarded credit for AP and IB exam scores, rather than completion of AP and IB courses.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB1910ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1910/S.B. 1448
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows local school boards to award diploma seals for all Board of Education-approved diplomas. Requirements for the standard technical, advanced technical and modified standard diplomas are established in administrative rule. This legislation bring references to the awarding of these diploma options into statute.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0209+pdf
Title: H.B. 1793
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that students should be eligible for credit for International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement examinations, not the courses.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0157+pdf
Title: S.B. 1077
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local school boards to adopt and implement policies pursuant to which electronic records and electronic signatures may be accepted from any parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child enrolled in the relevant school division.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0261+pdf
Title: H.B. 2243
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec. |
Provides in-state tuition for any person who met the requirements for in-state tuition prior to being called to active duty in the National Guard of another state following completion of active duty service if during active duty that person maintained one or more of the following in Virginia rather than in another state or jurisdiction: a driver's license, motor vehicle registration, voter registration, employment, property ownership, or sources of financial support. http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0376+pdf
Title: S.B. 1074
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes certain veterans who elect to establish Virginia as their permanent residence for domiciliary purposes to establish immediate residency in Virginia and become eligible for in-state tuition, rather than waiting the required one-year period. http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0038+pdf
Title: H.B. 1861/S.B. 824
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Clarifies the roles of the two advisory committees to the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan and requires the Board to post the annual report on its website.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0026+pdf
Title: H.B. 1619/S.B. 1362
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Amends the criteria for institutions of higher education to be eligible to receive tuition assistance on behalf of eligible students. For an institution to be eligible, the institution must have either been receiving such funds as of January 1, 2011, or (i) be formed, chartered, established, or incorporated within the Commonwealth; (ii) have the principal place of business in the Commonwealth; (iii) conduct their primary educational activity with the Commonwealth; and (iv) be accredited by a nationally recognized regional accrediting agency. The bill requires the State Council of Higher Education to keep a current, and periodically updated, list of such institutions. The bill also defines ''principal place of business."
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB1439ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 1439/H.B. 1960
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Adds to the ''good cause" circumstances for which school divisions may be granted a waiver from the post-Labor Day school opening schedule a school division that is entirely surrounded by a school division that has an opening date prior to Labor Day in the school year for which the waiver is sought.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0387+pdf
Title: H.B. 1483
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Expands the prohibition on entry onto school grounds by any adult convicted of a sexually violent offense to include any school bus and any property, public or private, during hours when such property is being used solely by a public or private elementary or secondary school for a school-related or school-sponsored activity. The penalty is a Class 6 felony.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2066ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 2066
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances to allow local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in order to detect drivers passing stopped school buses. This bill is identical to SB 946.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB1911ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1911/S.B. 946
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based that were not already in effect on June 30, 2008, with the exception of the graduation and completion rate index and the economic and financial literacy requirement, until July 1, 2012, unless such statutes or regulations are also specifically required by federal code, federal regulation, or court action..
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0391+pdf
Title: H.B. 1554/S.B. 810
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Health to develop and administer a random survey of students in public middle and high schools to facilitate planning and implementation of effective programs for substance abuse prevention through collection of information identifying trends in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and the assessment of risk and protective factors among youth of the Commonwealth. The bill provides that a student shall not be required to participate if his parents refuse consent in writing prior to administration of the survey, and requires local school boards to develop policies for the notification of parents of students selected for participation in the survey.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB1094ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 1094
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that if a local school board offers an elective course in American Sign Language, it must grant academic credit for course completion on the same basis as the successful completion of a foreign language course and count course completion in American Sign Language toward the fulfillment of any foreign language requirement for graduation. Additionally, the bill requires public institutions of higher education to count academic credit received for successful completion of American Sign Language courses in a secondary school or higher education institution toward satisfaction of the foreign language entrance requirements.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB1435ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1435
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Vetoed 02/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires at least 150 minutes of physical education per week on average during the regular school year for grades K through eight, with a similar goal for high school students. This requirement would go into effect beginning with the 2014 -2015 school year and would not apply to any half-day kindergarten.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB966ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 966/H.B. 1644
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
Postsec. |
Updates language requiring the State Council of Higher Education to issue and update military reinstatement guidelines to allow reinstatement for students whose service in the uniformed services has required sudden withdrawal or prolonged absence from enrollment in a public institution of higher education. http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0027+pdf
Title: H.B. 1647
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Issued 02/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficacy of year-round schools, specifically reviewing: (i) the Board of Education's procedure for approving year-round schools; (ii) which school divisions have implemented year-round schools and their experience with this alternative method of providing education; (iii) conduct a comprehensive analysis of each year-round school, scheduling format, instructional, and extracurricular programs offered, and number of students enrolled in the year-round school; (iv) consider the minimum number of required teaching days or hours that should constitute the length of a school term and the issues attendant thereto; (v) identify and review year-round schools offered by other states and countries, noting advantages and disadvantages; (vi) ascertain and weigh the essential factors that must be considered before implementing year-round schools statewide, including, but not limited to, instructional costs, transportation and special education services, and the need for additional classroom teachers, staff, and support services; (vii) evaluate the impact of changing the scheduling format on school functions and length of terms and school breaks; and (viii) consider and thoroughly vet other issues and matters related to year-round schools as the Commission may deem necessary to provide feasible and appropriate recommendations. The Commission must submit an executive summary to the 2012 Session of the General Assembly and its final report and recommendations to the 2013 Session of the General Assembly.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HJ646ER+pdf
Title: H.J.R. 646
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Issued 02/2011 |
P-12 |
Requests the Department of Education to study the nature and effectiveness of local school divisions' antibullying policies. In conducting its study, the Department of Education shall (i) review and compare antibullying measures in the student codes of conduct from each school division, (ii) compare existing policies with the Department's model policy for codes of student conduct, and (iii) determine if improvements to existing policies are warranted, in order to more effectively combat bullying in Virginia's public schools.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HJ625ER+pdf
Title: H.J.R. 625
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes college partnership laboratory schools by any public institution of higher education that operates an approved teacher education program. Provides that the schools shall be public schools established by a contract between the governing board of the school and the Board of Education. Provides that teachers working in such schools shall be employees of the institution of higher education and licensed by the Board or eligible for licensure. Relates to at-risk pupils and funding.
Intended to (1) stimulate the development of innovative programs for preschool through grade 12 students; (2) provide opportunities for innovative instruction and assessment; (3) provide teachers with a vehicle for establishing schools with alternative innovative instruction and school scheduling, management, and structure; (4) encourage the use of performance-based educational programs; (5) establish high standards for both teachers and administrators; (6) encourage greater collaboration between education providers from preschool to the postsecondary level; and (7) develop models for replication in other public schools.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+CHAP0871+pdf
Title: S.B. 736/H.B. 1389
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Rehabilitative Services and other partner agencies, to develop pilot programs to assist individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders to obtain and sustain employment and to offer education and training to employers.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+CHAP0307+pdf
Title: H.B. 1099
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires contracts and purchase orders with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board of Education for use in grades 6 - 12 to allow for the purchase of printed textbooks, printed textbooks with electronic files or electronic textbooks separate and apart from printed versions of the same textbook. In addition, allows each school board to purchase an assortment of textbooks in any of the three forms listed above.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+CHAP0097+pdf
Title: H.B. 97
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to delayed implementation of certain statutes and regulations upon which accreditation is based, with the exception of the graduation and completion rate index, unless such statutes or regulations are also specifically required by federal code, federal regulation, or court action.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB111ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 111/S.B. 352
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires each local school board to include in its annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who passed the state Workplace Readiness Skills assessment.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB630ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 630
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that, in addition to the attendance officer, school personnel, and volunteers, the school principal or his designee is responsible for notifying parents concerning students' nonattendance at school; provides that the school principal or his designee is also responsible for arranging the conference with parents and in developing the student's attendance plan.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB196ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 196
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to develop policies ensuring that any student's absence because of the observance of a religious holiday be recorded as excused on the student's attendance record and that a student not be deprived of any award or of eligibility or opportunity to compete for any award or of the right to take an alternate test or examination for any which were missed because of such absence.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB361ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 361
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Clarifies that the definition of vocational shall not include instructional programs intended solely for recreation, enjoyment, personal interest, or as a hobby, or courses or programs that prepare individuals to teach such pursuits.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB703ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 703/S.B. 598
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the public charter school applicant to submit its proposed charter application to the Board of Education for review, comment, and a pre- certification recommendation prior to the submission of such application to a local school board; provides for a petition for reconsideration.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB737ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 737/H.B. 1390
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to require all education preparation programs for teachers in history and social sciences, elementary education pre K-6, and middle education 6-8 to include local government and civics instruction specific to the state; relates to teachers seeking renewal of a license with an endorsement in history and social sciences.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB715ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 715
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Civic Education |
Issued 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes Governor's Advisory Board on Volunteerism and National Service. The Board will comply with the provisions of the National and Community Services Trust Act of 1993 and to advise the Governor and Cabinet Secretaries on matters related to promotion and development of national service in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Board duties include:
1. Advising the Governor, the Secretaries of Health and Human Resources, Education, Natural Resources, the Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services, on national and community service programs in Virginia and on fulfilling the responsibilities and duties prescribed by the federal Corporation for National Service.
2. To advise the Governor, the Secretaries of Health and Human Resources, Education, Natural Resources, the Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services, and other appropriate officials, on the development, implementation, and evaluation of Virginia's Unified State Plan that outlines strategies for supporting and expanding national and community service throughout the Commonwealth.
3. To promote the expansion of AmeriCorps programs to meet Virginia's most pressing human, educational, environmental, and public safety needs.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/issues/executiveorders/2010/EO-20.cfm
Title: E.O. 20
Source: www.governor.virginia.gov |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Open Education Curriculum Board. Provides that the board may offer financial incentives to encourage individuals to submit educational materials to the Consortium; provides that certain content may be licensed or sold for a reasonable fee, provided the cost does not exceed the cost of comparable commercial products.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB241ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 241
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Allows local school boards to offer firearm safety education programs in the elementary grades; requires that program objectives incorporate, among other principles of firearm safety, accident prevention and the rules of the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program and comply with curriculum guidelines.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+CHAP0859+pdf
Title: H.B. 1217
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Virginia Workforce Development Authority to take over the duties of the Statewide Area Health Education Centers Program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB1304ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1304
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to workforce program evaluations and the sharing of certain data. Provides for certain agencies to share de-identified data to create one- time restricted-use data sets in order to evaluate postsecondary and career readiness programs pursuant to specified requirements and to conduct eduction program evaluations that require employment outcomes.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB459ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 459
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 03/2010 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Governor's Commission on Higher Education Reform, Innovation and Investment. Directs the commission to consider the current state of public and private higher education in the state, and best practices in other states and countries. Directs the commission to make findings and recommendations for addressing the following priorities:
(1) Preserving and enhancing the instructional excellence of Virginia's leading universities and of the higher education system as a whole
(2) Significantly increasing the percentage of college-age Virginians who enroll in colleges and complete degrees
(3) Attracting and preparing young people for the STEM areas and other disciplines (e.g., healthcare and advanced manufacturing) where skill shortages now exist and/or unmet demand is anticipated
(4) Forging new public-private partnerships and regional strategies for business recruitment, workforce preparation, and university-based research
(5) Making the state a national leader in providing higher education opportunities to military personnel and veterans
(6) Crafting a sustainable higher education funding model that will move Virginia toward higher levels of educational attainment and economic competitiveness over the next 15 years
(7) Developing innovative ways to deliver quality instruction, cost-saving reform strategies, and affordable new pathways to degree attainment for Virginians, regardless of income or background
(8) Evaluating strategies to reduce costs through additional college placement testing and accelerated degree completion
(9) Creating effective workforce development programs through expanded use of the community college system in coordination with the commission on economic development and job creation.
Calls for the creation of the following committees, and identifies tasks for each committee: (1) Increased Degree Attainment, Financial Aid and Workforce Training; (2) Implement Innovation and Cost Containment; and (3) Regional Strategies/Partnerships for Research and Economic Development.
Directs the committee to submit its interim findings and recommendations on matters potentially impacting the executive budget by September 30, 2010. Directs the commission to an interim report of its activities, findings and recommendations by November 30, 2010. Provides the interim report must focus primarily on increasing degree attainment, concentrating increased educational attainment in STEM areas and other high-demand and high-income fields, a model for higher education funding, and partnerships through which public and private colleges and community colleges participate actively in economic development and workforce training. Directs the commission to continue to meet and make recommendations on additional stated objectives throughout 2011.
Provides this executive order will become effective upon signing and remain in full force and effect until March 26, 2011 unless amended or rescinded by further executive order.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Issues/ExecutiveOrders/pdf/EO_9.pdf
Title: E.O. 9
Source: www.governor.virginia.gov |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Eliminates the requirement that every three years a census of all school-age persons residing within each school division take place; eliminates all related requirements regarding appointment and compensation of persons taking census, agents, and census results. Amends the procedure regarding sales and use tax distribution to localities so that distribution is based on the average daily membership of the school division rather han the school-age population of a school division.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB669ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 669/S.B. 413
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Health, to promulgate and periodically update regulations setting nutritional guidelines for all competitive foods sold or served to students during regular school hours; requires the Board to adopt either the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Competitive Foods Guidelines or the Institute of Medicine's Recommended Standards for Competitive Foods in Schools as the initial statewide standard for competitive foods.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB414ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 414
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies to grant a minimum of 24 undergraduate semester credit hours to entering freshman students who have successfully completed the International Baccalaureate diploma program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB209ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 209
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to provide for the waiver of certain high school graduation requirements (i) upon the Board's initiative or (ii) at the request of a local school board. Such waivers may only be granted for good cause and shall be considered on a case-by-case basis.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB1199ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1199
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school divisions must administer a locally developed or selected limited English proficiency assessment mandated for students pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, so long as such assessment has been approved by the Board of Education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB354ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 354
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the Board of Education to approve, criteria for approving and monitoring multi-division providers of online courses and virtual school programs. Allows local school boards to enter into contracts with approved private or nonprofit organizations to provide such courses and programs. Such contracts shall be exempt from the Public Procurement Act.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB738ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 738/H.B. 1388
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the president and vice-president of each public institution of higher education, or the superintendent in the case of the Virginia Military Institute, to annually certify in writing to the Department of Emergency Management comprehension and understanding of the institution's crisis and emergency management plan. The bill also provides that each public institution of higher education shall annually conduct a functional exercise in accordance with the protocols established by the institution's crisis and emergency management plan.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB608ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 608
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that scholarships awarded through the Brown V. Board of Education Scholarship Program may be used to cover the costs of professional degree programs and mandatory fees; relates to a professional degree program that will culminate in the award of a degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, law, pharmacy, optometry, engineering, architecture, veterinary medicine or other discipline approved by the Committee.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB1227ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1227
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the development of a uniform certificate of general studies program by the State Council of Higher Education, in consultation with the Community College System, to be offered at each community college.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB1066ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1066
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that a requirement that the school calendar begin after Labor Day may be waived by the Board of Education, provided the school board certifies that it meets one of the good cause requirements in current law.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB557ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 557/S.B.253
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that a sex offender who has received a court order allowing entry on school or child day center property must also obtain permission of the school board or of the owner of the private school or child day center for entry within all or part of the scope of the lifted ban and must do so in compliance with the terms and conditions of both the school or center and the court order; provides that the petition must be filed in circuit court.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB227ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 227
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Expands current gang-free school zones to the broader gang-free zones; includes any school bus stop or the property, including buildings and grounds, of any publicly owned or operated community center, park, library, or hospital; and provides that engaging in criminal street gang activity in a gang-free zone is a Class 5 or 6 felony and may include a two-year mandatory minimum sentence, depending upon other aggravators.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB682ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 682
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Exempts all records of threat assessment teams established at public institutions of higher education from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, and allows these teams to receive health and criminal history records of students for the purposes of assessment and intervention; provides that if an individual who had been under assessment commits certain violent acts, any records created by the team shall be made publicly available.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB903ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 903/S.B. 207
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that any person who possesses or consumes an alcoholic beverage while operating a school bus while transporting children is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB1353ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1353
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a prevailing party, who is the parent of a child with a disability, in a civil action he is allowed to bring before the court because he is aggrieved by earlier findings and a decision resolving a dispute as to program placements, individualized education programs, tuition eligibility and other matters.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB46ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 46
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to adult students under the jurisdiction of the juvenile and domestic relations district courts. Clarifies that notification is to be given to the superintendents of school divisions when students of a certain age or older are charged with certain crimes and are subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile and domestic relations district court. Provides for similar notification when such students are committed to a Department of Juvenile Justice facility.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB107+pdf
Title: H.B. 107
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Education to employ a military family education liaison to provide staff support for the state Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and to assist military families and the state in facilitating the implementation of the Interstate Compact; facilitates transfer of educational records and on-time graduation.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB299ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 299
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to develop and distribute to local school divisions guidelines for policies dealing with concussions in student- athletes; requires each local school division to develop policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of suspected concussions in student-athletes.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB652ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 652
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires each local school board to include in its annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who passed Virginia's Workplace Readiness Skills assessment. This number is in addition to the current related reporting requirements of the number of industry certifications obtained, state licensure examinations passed, and career and technical education completers who graduate; requires all four numbers to be reported as four separate categories on the School Performance Report Card.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB566ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 566
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Codifies a current recognition program for schools and local school divisions that recognizes and rewards fully accredited schools and school divisions that make significant progress toward achieving advance proficiency levels in reading, mathematics, science, and history and social science and on other indicators of school and student performance; requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines for the program performance objectives and measures.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB145ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 145/H.B. 1172
Source: Lhttp://leg1.state.va.us |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to conduct an audit of any school division that utilizes the Virginia Grade Level Alternative assessment instrument, in grades three through eight, for more than three percent of its students with disabilities population in those grades in any given school year.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB304ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 304
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Repeals the requirement for economics education and financial literacy instruction in middle and high schools.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB196ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 196
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; provides that when performing its duty to develop a uniform, comprehensive data information system designed to gather all information necessary to the performance of the Council's duties, the Council may contract with private entities to create de-identified student records for the purpose of assessing the performance of institutions and specific programs relative to the workforce needs of the Commonwealth.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB7ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 7
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Health develop, with input from the localities, a plan for the prompt vaccination of all children who attend a public or private school in the Commonwealth or who are home instructed but subject to vaccination requirements, upon the declaration of an emergency or epidemic of a vaccine-preventable disease by the Board of Health, and to review and update such plans triennially.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB270ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 270
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Ensures that the sequential elective requirement for the standard diploma supports the student-selected career pathway required by the Academic and Career Plan and described in Board of Education regulations.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB394ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 394/S.B.629
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations establishing Standards for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia as they relate to homebound instructional services to include that homebound instruction shall be made available to students based on a certification of need by a licensed clinical social worker.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB257ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 257
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to opening of the school year; provides that the requirement that the school calendar begin after Labor Day may be waived by the Board of Education, provided the school board certifies that it meets one of the good cause requirements in current law.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB253ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 253/H.B. 557
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the members of the threat assessment team, and the president and vice-president of each public institution of higher education, or the superintendent in the case of the Virginia Military Institute, to annually certify in writing to the Department of Emergency Management comprehension and understanding of the institution's crisis and emergency management plan.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB1172ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1238
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to local school divisions; reduces certain reporting requirements of local schools.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB208ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 208
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school boards may employ temporarily employed teachers, with the approval of the Board of Education, for periods longer than 90 teaching days in a school year.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB62+pdf
Title: H.B. 623
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires contracts and purchase orders with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board of Education for use in grades 6-12 to allow for the purchase of printed textbooks, printed textbooks with electronic files, or electronic textbooks separate and apart from printed versions of the same textbook; allows each school board to purchase an assortment of textbooks in any of the three forms listed above.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB709ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 709
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds one nonlegislative citizen member, who must be a student that has successfully completed the civics curriculum in his school division, to the membership of the Commission; extends the Commission.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+SB1453ER
Title: S.B. 1453
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to eligibility for state financial aid programs; provides that persons who have completed a qualified program of home school instruction and qualified persons who have been excused from school attendance shall be deemed to have met the high school graduation requirements for purposes of eligibility for any state-supported financial aid or other higher education programs; promotes racial and ethnic diversity.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+SB1547ER
Title: S.B. 1547
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes, regulations and standards upon which the accreditation of schools or school divisions in the Commonwealth is based that are not already in effect; relates to passing rates for full accreditation based on assessments.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2166ER
Title: H.B. 2166
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that pending the decision by the division superintendent as to whether to require that a student charged with an offense involving intentional injury to another student of the school division attend an alternative education program, a local school board may impose a short-term suspension upon such student; provides that a school board may require a student charged with certain juvenile offenses to attend an alternative education program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2341ER
Title: H.B. 2341
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to establish objectives for Holocaust education with an emphasis on the causes and ramifications of the Holocaust; provides that such objectives must be infused into the appropriate curriculum areas and Standards of Learning.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2409ER
Title: H.B. 2409
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires that minor applicants for a driver's license show they have successfully completed, with a parent or guardian, an in-person 90-minute or longer driver safety course prescribed by DMV; increases the learner's permit issuance fee.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1782ER
Title: H.B. 1782
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires local governing bodies and local school divisions to publish the estimated required local match in the publication of the annual school budget; provides that local governing bodies and school divisions must, by law, publish the annual school budget for public inspection and comment; requires that the publication shall include the estimated required local match for school funding purposes.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0280
Title: S.B. 1285
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides additional direction to school boards in establishing and administering a grievance procedure to resolve disputes arising between the school board and certain employees; relates to suspensions and other disciplinary actions.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2089ER
Title: H.B. 2089
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that in certain circumstances a student called to active military duty during a course at an institution of higher education may still receive full course
Directs governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies that provide students called to active military duty during an academic semester with the opportunity to earn full course credit.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1810ER
Title: H.B. 1810
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Modifies the eligibility of the current program to allow a student enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours per semester at a two-year institution of higher education to receive a grant for tuition and fees; provides that a student who has a prior bachelor's degree is excluded from participation; relates to foster care.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+SB1049ER
Title: S.B. 1049
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, in consultation with the Department of Education and the State Council of Higher Education, to develop a competitive grant pilot program to provide grants to community colleges to establish open education resource centers in the Commonwealth; establishes a fund authorizing both public and private contributions; relates to learning materials whose copyrights have expired, or that permit their free use.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+SB1173ER
Title: S.B. 1173
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires all school emergency plans to include a provision that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the State Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund shall be contacted immediately to deploy assistance in the event of an emergency as defined in the emergency response plan when there are victims.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0269
Title: S.B. 1150
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired, together with the Department of Education, to promulgate regulations for the certification of individuals providing Braille instruction in the Commonwealth. This bill provides that such regulations shall include a requirement that all individuals providing Braille instruction be certified as having passed the National Literary Braille Competency Test by July 1, 2011.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2224ER
Title: H.B. 2224
Source: http://leg1.state.va.u |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that any party aggrieved by a decision made in a due process hearing provided to children with disabilities and their parents or guardians and to school divisions in resolving disputes as to program placements, individualized education programs, tuition eligibility and other matters may appeal to a circuit court for a period of one year.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2304ER
Title: H.B. 2304
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Re-establishes the Board of Visitors of the State School for the Deaf and the Blind as the governing entity for the State School for the Deaf and the Blind at Staunton and the State School for the Deaf, Blind and Multi-Disabled at Hampton.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0210
Title: H.B. 2353
Source: http://leg1.state.va.u |
Students |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes a compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1727ER
Title: H.B. 1727
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Students |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies to allow a parent of twins or higher order multiples to request that the children be placed in the same classroom or separate classrooms if they are in the same grade level at the same elementary school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2070ER
Title: H.B. 2070
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Expands the types of school records that may be admissible in cases involving custody of the student or termination of parental rights to all school records, rather than just those relating to attendance, transcripts or grades, provided that they are authenticated as true and accurate copies by the custodian of the records or by the person to whom the custodian reports, if they are different.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0212
Title: H.B. 2406
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires school boards to ensure that all elementary school teachers are provided an average of 30 minutes a day of planning time.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2474ER
Title: H.B. 2474
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school boards, in cooperation with the local governing body, may pursue housing options for its employees including the provision of workforce housing.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2132ER
Title: H.B. 2132
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education in prescribing Standards of Learning assessments to also provide the option of industry certification and state licensure examinations in lieu of administering tests to assess the progress of students.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2517ER
Title: H.B. 2517
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school division may assign a student deemed at-risk for a long-term suspension to a regional alternative education program; clarifies that the program is a regional alternative education program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1945ER
Title: H.B. 1945
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that the sufficient cause necessary to suspend a student cannot rest solely on instances of tardiness or truancy.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1794ER
Title: H.B. 1794
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for the suspension of the driver's license or learner's permit of any minor who has 10 or more unexcused absences from public school on consecutive school days.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1826ER
Title: H.B. 1826
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that a local school board must take reasonable steps to determine whether an applicant, who has resided in another state within the last five years, was the subject of a founded case of child abuse and neglect in the relevant state by contacting such state's central child abuse and neglect registry, so long as such state provides access to out-of-state entities.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1679ER
Title: H.B. 1679
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school divisions shall not be required to administer the ACCESS test as the state- approved limited English proficiency assessment mandated for students pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act for the 2009-2010 school year; provides for flexibility.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2589ER
Title: H.B. 2589
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows certain amendments to the charter school statutes to sunset as provided in Chapter 530 of the Acts of Assembly of 2004 and retains others. Specifically, changes made in 2004 that require the charter school applicant to include information regarding disclosures of any ownership or financial interest in the public charter school by the charter applicant and the governing body, administrators, and other personnel of the public charter school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1844ER
Title: H.B. 1844
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+SB827ER
Title: S.B. 827
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1746ER
Title: H.B. 1746
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires school divisions to include a detailed statement in the summary already required by law to be issued to parents and guardians to assist them in understanding the family life education program implemented in the school division, if the curriculum of the program offers only abstinence education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1980ER
Title: H.B. 1980
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the annual report of expenditures provided by the school board to the appropriate governing body to also be made available to the public in sufficient detail for citizens to readily identify how appropriated funds have been spent.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2269ER
Title: H.B. 2269
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Changes the name of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth and allows for moneys from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Fund that are obtained primarily from public grants and private funding sources to be used to reduce childhood obesity in the Commonwealth.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2456ER
Title: H.B. 2456
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school boards must require the completion of 12 classroom hours of instruction in financial literacy as a condition for graduation from the public schools in the Commonwealth.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2112ER
Title: H.B. 2112
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Clarifies the manner in which school boards may establish a single-sex class, program, or school in a school division; provides that participation must be voluntary and the school division must provide a substantially equal coeducational school, class, or program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1942ER
Title: H.B. 1942
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to make provisions to require the acceptance of virtual state credits earned by a student while attending another public secondary school or nonpublic school, or through home instruction.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2619ER
Title: H.B. 2619
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that scholarships awarded through the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program may be used to cover the costs of required academic fees, in addition to tuition and textbooks already provided by state law, and graduate study at the masters and doctoral levels, as determined by the Awards Committee; clarifies the Awards Committee's authority to establish policies, standards, and rules to govern the program; includes an accredited career and technical education postsecondary school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1893ER
Title: H.B. 1893
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that notwithstanding the eligibility requirement that a member of the National Guard have a minimum of two years remaining on his service requirement in order to receive a grant, if a member is activated or deployed for federal military service or state active duty, an additional day must be added to the member's eligibility for the grant for each day of federal service or state active duty.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2342ER
Title: H.B. 2342
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Permits the State Council of Higher Education to appoint students enrolled in private, accredited and nonprofit institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to the student advisory committee whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate or graduate education and not to provide religious training.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1663ER
Title: H.B. 1663
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides for the exclusion of certain financial records of the Virginia College Savings Plan from the Freedom of Information Act, the authorization for closed meetings of the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan in certain circumstances, the expansion of the Virginia College Savings Plan Board from eight to 11 members.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2549ER
Title: H.B. 2549
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to grant program for certain foster care and special needs adoption students; modifies the eligibility of the current program to allow a student enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours per semester at a two-year institution of higher education to receive a grant for tuition and fees and to ensure that a student who has a prior bachelor's degree is excluded from participation.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1599ER
Title: H.B. 1599
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, in consultation with the Virginia Department of Education and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to develop a competitive grant pilot program to provide grants to community colleges to establish open education resource centers in the Commonwealth; establishes a fund authorizing both public and private contributions.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1940ER
Title: H.B. 1940
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Eliminates the requirement that the State Council of Higher Education must develop and revise, as it deems necessary, a model institutional crisis and emergency management plan for the purpose of assisting public and private two- and four-year institutions of higher education in establishing, operating, and maintaining emergency services and disaster preparedness activities.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1664ER
Title: H.B. 1664
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds act of violence by a mob to the listing of offenses that are reported by a juvenile intake officer to a school division superintendent when committed by a student; removes two redundancies created when similar House and Senate bills passed and were merged in 2004.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2513ER
Title: H.B. 2513
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to Board of Education model policies for codes of student conduct; provides for the inclusion of electronic bullying, harassment, and intimidation in such policies; provides for the dissemination of information to students, parents and school personnel.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1624ER
Title: H.B. 1624
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Defines parent for the purposes of special education identification, evaluation, and placement of a child and the provision of a free appropriate public education to a child.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2537ER
Title: H.B. 2537
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school boards may assess a reasonable fee or charge for the loss of or damage to a textbook, so long as the textbook has been provided to the student free of charge.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1923ER
Title: H.B. 1923
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 05/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
(Executive Order 2008-61) Relates to the Chief Workforce Development Officer Coordination of Workforce Development and Accountability, Cross- Cabinet Collaboration and the Role of the Virginia Community College System.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/pdf/EO_61.pdf
Title: Executive Order 61
Source: http://www.governor.virginia.gov |
Religion |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
From fiscal impact statement: Provides that a student's voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint in homework, artwork or other written or oral assignments may not be
discriminated against based on the content of the submission but shall be judged by ordinary standards of substance and relevance and against other legitimate pedagogical concerns
identified by the school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1135ER
Title: H.B. 1135
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Community College |
Adds the Chancellor of the Community College System to the Board of the Authority to help better coordinate workforce development in the state.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0787
Title: H.B. 731
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, unless reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides the necessary revisions in the NCLB Act that allow Virginia's existing educational accountability system, as set forth in the Standards of Quality, Standards of Learning, and Standards of Accreditation, to substantially meet the accountability requirements of the federal law. If the Board recommends withdrawing from participation in NCLB, the Board must develop a plan for withdrawal and must submit such plan to the Governor and the General Assembly for their consideration by June 30, 2009.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0826
Title: H.B. 1425, S.B. 490
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that every adult who is convicted of a sexually violent offense is prohibited from entering and being present upon any property he knows or has reason to know is a public or private elementary or secondary school or child day center property during school-related and school-sponsored activities. Currently, the prohibition only applies during school hours.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0781
Title: H.B. 567
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires local school divisions to publish their annual budget on the local school division website. If there is no local school division website, the budget must be available in hard copy. This bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2009.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0404
Title: S.B. 376
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the employment of an applicant for employment requiring direct contact with students if such applicant is the subject of a founded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child. Additionally, requires the dismissal of a teacher who while employed by a local school board, becomes the subject of a founded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child. This bill also requires the Department of Social Services to report any founded complaints of sexual abuse of a child to a school board, where the subject of the report is a full-time, part-time, permanent or temporary employee of a school board in the Commonwealth. The bill adds a class 1 misdemeanor, and also requires the Department of Social Services to maintain a database of central child abuse and neglect registries in other states and to notify the school board if there is a founded complaint of child abuse and neglect against a teacher.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1242ER
Title: H.B. 1242
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12,
Community College |
From fiscal impact statement: HB 1526 creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certification Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to better prepare them for continued education and workforce training, successful employment, and career advancement. The Virginia Workforce Council, in consultation with the Secretary of
Education, shall develop policies and guidelines necessary to implement and administer the Program. Funding for provisions of the bill shall be based on a budget approved by the Workforce Council and shall come from the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) or other sources, but the amount is not to exceed one million dollars.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1526ER
Title: H.B. 1526
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Expands the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to include those teacher candidates pursuing an endorsement in career and technical education. This bill is a recommendation
from the Joint Subcommittee to Study Science, Math, and Technology Education in the Commonwealth at the Elementary, Secondary, and Undergraduate Levels.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0141
Title: S.B. 169
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to develop a plan for increasing the number of students receiving industry certification and state licensure as part of their career and technical education; requires the plan to include an annual goal for school divisions.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0150
Title: S.B. 326
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to incorporate into their local wellness policy as a goal a minimum of an average of 150 minutes of physical fitness for all students. Such program may include any combination of (i) physical education classes, (ii) extracurricular athletics, or (iii) other programs and physical activities deemed appropriate by the local school board.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB242ER
Title: H.B. 242
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Community College |
Provides that the strategic plan for workforce development shall be developed in coordination with the development of the comprehensive economic development policy required from the Governor during the first year of his administration. The bill also enhances the role of the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System by designating the Chancellor as staff to the Virginia Workforce Council.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1312ER
Title: H.B. 1312
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certificate Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to better prepare them for continued education and workforce training, successful employment, and career advancement. The Virginia Workforce Council, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, shall promulgate regulations necessary to implement and administer the Program. Funding shall come from the Workforce Investment Act, or other sources as shall be made available, in an amount not to exceed $1 million.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0243
Title: S.B. 756
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Equity |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Adds public entities, including schools, to the list of public places in which persons with disabilities are entitled to the same full and free rights as other persons.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB214ER
Title: H.B. 214
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires local governing bodies and local school boards to annually publish their approved budgets online. If there is no local government website or local school board website, then budgets must be available in hard copy to citizens for inspection.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB140ER
Title: H.B. 140
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbook to include print, electronic, online, and other manipulative-based programs. The bill reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated code. Also provides that if consumable materials are sold to students, the local school board must provide those materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them. The substitute bill requires the Department of Education (DOE) to publish the list of approved textbooks on its website and also to list the publisher and the price of the textbooks. DOE anticipates that publishing the required information on its website can be done using existing resources. The requirement for localities to provide these materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them is a continuation of current policy.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB137ER
Title: H.B. 137, S.B. 356
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to supervise the provision of education and training to school aged children who are patients at the children's hospital associated with the Commonwealth University Health System Authority.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+oth+HB241FER122+PDF
Title: H.B. 241
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to administration of prescription drugs; allows a person employed in a school for students with disabilities to administer prescription medication to a student if the person has satisfactorily completed a training program and has obtained written authorization from a parent or guardian; establishes other guidelines.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+SB271ER
Title: S.B. 271
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Adds mental health education and awareness to the list of topics that shall be covered in family life education curricula.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0417
Title: S.B. 640
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to develop a database of local school divisions' best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, including results of wellness-related fitness assessments. Requires that the database be accessible to all local school divisions and the Department of Health, and no school division is to be required to submit information to the database.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB246ER
Title: H.B. 246
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires a local school division to obtain written or electronic documentation, to the extent practicable, before making any status classification in an information management system.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0422
Title: H.B. 259
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
A technical diploma is required to meet or exceed the requirements of a standard diploma and must include a concentration in career and technical education, as established in Board regulations. This bill requires that a student who meets the requirement for the advanced studies diploma who also fulfills a concentration in career and technical education will receive an advanced technical diploma, or if he chooses, he can receive an advanced studies diploma.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0351
Title: H.B. 97
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Eliminates (i) the requirement that correspondence courses must be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in order to qualify as a suitable program for home instruction and (ii) the provision allowing parents to provide programs that are judged by the division superintendent to include the standards of learning objectives for language arts and mathematics. In addition, the bill allows for the provision of home instruction if the parent provides a program through distance learning or if the parent provides evidence that he is able to provide an adequate education for the child.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0364
Title: H.B. 767
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides for two additional options for parents to provide evidence of progress of the child receiving home instruction including: (i) an evaluation letter from a person licensed to teach in any state, or a person with a master's degree or higher in the field of education stating that the child is achieving an adequate level of educational growth and progress; or (ii) a report card from a community college, or college, college distance learning program, or home education correspondence school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1183ER
Title: H.B. 1183
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor (a fine up to $2,500 and/or up to 12 months in jail) to issue or manufacture a fraudulent academic credential or knowingly using a fraudulent academic credential to obtain employment, promotion, licensure, or admission to an institution of higher learning. The bill also provides for a civil remedy for damages.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB766ER
Title: H.B. 766
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies that the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee may reduce the scholarship award to any student to ensure that, when the award is added to other financial assistance received by the student, the award does not produce a total of financial assistance in excess of the annual costs of tuition, excluding fees and expenses, and textbooks. Currently, state law requires that the award shall not exceed these annual costs. This bill requires all approved educational agencies enrolling scholarship recipients and receiving award disbursements on the behalf of such students to notify the Committee and the State Council of Higher Education prior to the start of each term, regarding the total of other financial assistance received by such students. Also, technical amendments have been made to conform provisions pertaining to the dual enrollment of students to the established procedures, protocol, and requirements for dual enrollment of college level students as currently in effect in the Commonwealth. This bill is a recommendation of the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1529ER
Title: H.B. 1529
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), with the advice and input of the governing boards of each public institution of higher education, to develop polices and procedures for disclosure of information by public higher education institutions on their lending practices. This information shall include (i) criteria used to determine which lenders, if any, are recommended or endorsed by the school, or included on a preferred lender list made available to students, and (ii) explicit notification that students are free to borrow from any lender of their choosing and are not limited to any lender or lenders suggested by the school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+SB510ER
Title: S.B. 510
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Allows local school boards to establish after school programs designed to prevent at risk youth from engaging in illegal or gang related activities for students who attend elementary, middle, or high schools; provides that local funds appropriated for K through 12 education may be used to support such programs.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0455
Title: S.B. 44
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Requires each public college or university to have in place policies and procedures for the prevention of violence on campus, including assessment and intervention with individuals
whose behavior poses a threat to the safety of the campus community. The board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education shall determine a
committee structure on campus of individuals charged with education and prevention of violence on campus. Each committee shall include representatives from student affairs, law enforcement, human resources, counseling services, residence life, and other constituencies as needed. Such committee shall also consult with legal counsel as needed. Once formed, each committee shall develop a clear statement of: (i) mission, (ii) membership, and (iii) leadership. Such statement shall be published and available to the campus community.
Each committee shall be charged with: (i) providing guidance to students, faculty, and staff regarding recognition of threatening or aberrant behavior that may represent a threat to the community; (ii) identification of members of the university community to whom threatening behavior should be reported; and (iii) policies and procedures for the assessment of individuals whose behavior may present a threat, appropriate means of intervention with such individuals, and sufficient means of action, including interim suspension or medical separation to resolve potential threats to the campus community. The board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education also shall establish a specific threat assessment team that shall include members from law enforcement, mental health professionals, representatives of student affairs and human resources, and, if available, college or university counsel. Each threat assessment team shall establish relationships or utilize existing relationships with local and state law enforcement agencies as well as mental health agencies to expedite assessment and intervention with individuals whose behavior may present a threat to safety.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+SB539ER
Title: S.B. 539
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Amends and reenacts § 23-9.2:3, relating to providing notice to parents of dependent student's receipt of mental health treatment on the campus of a public institution of higher education. Requires the Board of Visitors or other governing board of any public institution of higher education to establish policies and procedures requiring the notification of a parent of a dependent student when such student receives mental health treatment at the institution's student health or counseling center and it has been determined that the student may cause serious bodily harm to himself or others.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1005ER
Title: H.B. 1005
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
This bill requires that the following three actions be taken by each of the Commonwealth's public higher education institutions:
• The board of visitors or other governing body will develop, adopt, and keep current a written crisis and emergency management plan; with a comprehensive review conducted and necessary revisions made every four years. The plan will be approved by the board or governing body and certified in writing to the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM). The VDEM will provide assistance to the institution, as necessary, in the development of its plans. Integration of the plan will be made into the locality's emergency operations plan.
• The board of visitors or other governing body will establish a threat assessment team, which will be expected to adopt a campus-wide threat assessment policy and regularly seek cooperation from the various areas of campus life including residential life, academic affairs, law enforcement, mental health / counseling, and student judicial affairs. The team will also be expected to establish or utilize existing relationships with local and state law enforcement agencies, as well as mental health agencies, to expedite assessment and intervention with individuals who are deemed to be potentially dangerous.
• The institution will establish a comprehensive, prompt, and reliable first warning and emergency notification system for students, staff, and faculty by January 1, 2009.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1449ER
Title: H.B. 1449
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of each public higher education institution to develop, adopt, and keep current a written crisis and emergency management plan; with a comprehensive review conducted and necessary revisions made every four years. The plan will be approved by the board or governing body and certified in writing to the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM). The VDEM will provide assistance to the institution, as necessary, in the development of its plans. Integration of the plan will be made into the locality's emergency operations plan.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0526
Title: S.B. 256
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Mandates that by January 1, 2009, each public institution of higher education establish a comprehensive, prompt, and reliable first warning and emergency notification system for students, staff, and faculty.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0413
Title: S.B. 538
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Allows each public and private institution of higher education to request from its students complete student records, including any mental health records held by the originating school. These records shall be kept confidential as required by state and federal law, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0571
Title: S.B. 636
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Removes the exclusion for drivers of school buses that allowed children under 18 years of age to work as as a driver of a truck or commercial vehicle of more than two axles. In other words, prohibits drivers under the age of 18 to drive a school bus.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1160ER
Title: H.B. 1160
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies or when the vehicle is lawfully parked and for the purposes of dispatching. Does not apply to two-way radio devices authorized by the owner of the school bus.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1218ER
Title: H.B. 1218
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies, or when the vehicle is lawfully parked and for the purposes of dispatching. Use of two-way radio devices authorized by the school bus owner, however, is permitted.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0234
Title: S.B. 136
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. |
Requires the Board of Visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education in Virginia to establish policies and procedures requiring the release of the educational record of a dependent student, as defined by 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, to a parent at his request (Chapter 495).
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1058ER2
Title: H.B. 1058
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Permits the Board of Education to extend a three- year provisional license an additional year for each school year or portion thereof for which a teacher is activated or deployed for military service. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB809ER
Title: H.B. 809
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires State Board of Education regulations to include requirements for the denial, suspension, cancellation, revocation, and reinstatement of licensure. Requires the Board of Education to revoke the license of any person for whom it has received a notice of dismissal or resignation pursuant to subsection F of § 22.1-313 and, in the case of a person who is the subject of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect, after all rights to an appeal provided by § 63.2-1526 have been exhausted. In those instances when licensed personnel are dismissed or resign due to a conviction of any felony; any offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse or rape of a child; any offense involving drugs; or due to having become the subject of a founded case of child abuse or neglect the local school board shall notify the Board of Education within 10 business days of such dismissal or the acceptance of such resignation. The local department is required to notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction when an individual holding a license issued by the Board of Education is the subject of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect and shall transmit identifying information regarding such individual, if the local department knows the person holds a license issued by the Board of Education and after all rights to an appeal provided by § 63.2-1526 have been exhausted. Any information exchanged for the purposes of this subsection shall not be considered a violation of § 63.2-102, 63.2-104, or 63.2-105.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0474
Title: S.B. 241
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbook to include print, electronic, online, and other manipulative-based programs. The bill reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated code. Also provides that if consumable materials are sold to students, the local school board must provide those materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB354ER
Title: H.B. 354
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to the Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to increase the number of candidates pursuing careers in career and technical education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB506ER
Title: H.B. 506
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that any joint, or regional charter school in operation prior to July 1, 2008, may request a waiver from any new regulation requirements; provides that any joint or regional school, such as academic year Governor's Schools, may set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school will comport with the calendar of any of the participating school divisions, including those granted a waiver to start before Labor Day.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB771ER
Title: H.B. 771
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Issued 06/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Executive Order 2007-53 creates a review panel to study the massacre at Virginia Tech University and to make recommendations for improving laws procedures and operations and agency response.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/pdf/EO_53.pdf
Title: E.O. 56
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to establish the requirements for a technical diploma. This diploma shall meet or exceed the requirements of a standard diploma and will include a concentration in career and technical education, as established in Board regulations. A student who meets the requirement for the advanced studies diploma who also fulfills a concentration in career and technical education shall receive an advanced technical diploma. The Board may develop or designate assessments in career and technical education for the purposes of awarding verified credit based on passing scores on industry certifications, state licensure examinations, and national occupational competency assessments approved by the state board.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2039ER2
Title: H.B. 2039
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires females to receive three doses of properly spaced human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in order to attend a public or private elementary, middle or secondary school, child care center, nursery school, family day care home or developmental center. The first dose shall be administered before the child enters the sixth grade. After having reviewed materials describing the link between the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer approved for such use by the Board of Health, a parent or guardian may elect for his daughter not to receive this vaccine. The bill contains a delayed effective date of October 1, 2008, and is identical to SB 1230, which also passed the legislature and was sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2035ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1230ER
Governor's recommendation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+HB2035AG
Title: H.B. 2035, S.B. 1230
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Chapter 850. The measure provides higher education grants to Virginia residents, who have successfully completed an acceptable associate degree program at a Virginia two-year college and have been admitted to an accredited nonprofit public or private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. The amount of the award is fixed at $1,000 per year, with an additional $1,000 per year available to those students pursuing undergraduate collegiate work in engineering, mathematics, nursing, teaching, or science. The measure includes eligibility requirements.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1681ER2
Title: H.B. 1681
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Vetoed, but veto overridden 04/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Prohibits the State Fire Marshal from charging a fee for permits issued for the inspection of schools operated or conducted under the auspices of a religious institution. The bill has a two year sunset provision. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2048ER
Governor's veto explanation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+HB2048AG
Title: H.B. 2048
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired teachers from $2.50 to $4.00 for each full year of the retired member's creditable service; eliminates an overall cap to the credit, and adds retired full-time, salaried employees of local school boards as recipients of the credit; establishes a formula for determining the monthly health insurance credit for teachers whose retirement was for disability; makes bill's provisions applicable for current and future retirees from positions as teachers or full-time, salaried employees of local school boards.
Pursuant to this bill, a locality would no longer have the option of providing an additional $1 health insurance credit to retired teachers, and the maximum credit that a teacher could receive is $4.
This bill is identical to SB 1218, which was also passed.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2370ER (HB 2370); http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1218ER (SB 1218)
Reenrolled and passed with the governor's recommendation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+HB2370AG
Title: H.B. 2370, S.B. 1218
Source: http://legis.state.va.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Defines continuing or professional education to mean those classes, courses, and programs designed specifically for individuals who have completed a degree in a professional field, that (i) are intended to fulfill the continuing education requirements for licensure or certification in said profession; (ii) have been approved by a legislatively or judicially established board or agency responsible for regulating the practice of the profession; and (iii) are offered exclusively to an individual practicing in the profession. This bill is identical to HB 2154, which was passed and sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2154ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1279ER
Title: S.B. 1279, H.B. 2154
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides for the phasing out of the eighth grade cumulative history test in the 2007-2008 school year, and the implementation of the United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics tests in the 2008-2009 school year; clarifies that a career and technical education course may be used as an option to fulfill credit requirements for graduation; adds effective classroom management to the listing of professional development programs to be provided to teachers and principals; emphasizes that student improvement efforts should focus particularly on educationally at-risk students; requires local school divisions to post a current copy of the school division policies, including the Student Conduct Policy, on the local division's website while ensuring that printed copies of such policies are available, as needed, to citizens who do not have Internet access; makes technical changes to standards 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Standards of Quality. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB795ER
Title: S.B. 795
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that as a condition of awarding a contract for the provision of services that require the contractor or his employees to have direct contact with students on school property during regular school hours, the school board must require the contractor to provide certification that all employees who will have direct contact with students have not been convicted of a felony or any offense involving the sexual molestation or physical or sexual abuse or rape of a child. The bill also provides that the requirement be waived in emergency situations when it is reasonably anticipated that the contractor or his employees will have no direct contact with students. This bill is identical to SB 1346, which also passed and was sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1707ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1346ER
Title: H.B. 1707, S.B. 1346
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to establish the requirements for a technical diploma, which must meet or exceed the requirements of a standard diploma and include a concentration in career and technical education. The bill is identical to HB 2039, which also passed the legislature and was sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1147ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2039S1
Governor's recommendation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+HB2039AG
Title: S.B. 1147, H.B. 2039
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Exempts from the contractor licensing requirements work undertaken by students as part of a career and technical education project as defined in § 22.1-228 established by any school board in accordance with Article 5 (§ 22.1-228 et seq.) of Chapter 13 of Title 22.1 for the construction of portable classrooms or single family homes. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2757ER
Title: H.B. 2757
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Community College |
Extends the sunset date for the Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education until July 1, 2012. The 17-member advisory council is charged with submitting recommendations for career and technical education that shall include policies and goals for career and technical education services, identifying career and technical education needs and gaps in services, and addressing identified needs for career and technical education programs annually to the governor and the General Assembly. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2040ER
Title: H.B. 2040
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Public Charter School Fund for the purposes of establishing or supporting public charter schools in Virginia that stimulate the development of alternative public education programs. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2311ER
Title: H.B. 2311
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to make available to local school divisions information regarding the commemoration of Veterans Day in public schools. hhttp://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2601ER
Title: H.B. 2601
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Education to make information available to local school divisions regarding the commemoration of George Washington's birthday in the public schools. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2837ER
Title: H.B. 2837
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows the state Board of Education to authorize a local school board's request to assess a surcharge for driver education programs in order to further recover program costs that exceed state funds distributed through basic aid to school divisions offering such programs. Each local school board may waive the fee or the surcharge in total or in part for those students it determines cannot pay the fee or surcharge. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2216ER
Title: H.B. 2216
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Curriculum--Science |
Passed 03/2007 |
Postsec. |
This joint resolution of the legislature establishes a joint subcommittee to study science and technology education in business, law, and policy graduate programs in state institutions of higher education. http://198.246.135.1/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HJ611ER
Title: H.J. 611
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that a school board's application to the Board of Education for a loan from the Literary Fund must be signed by the chairman of the governing body and the chairman of the school board; provides that such loans are considered general obligation debts of the governing body. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2350ER
Title: H.B. 2350
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review and advise responsible public entities that are agencies or institutions of the state on detailed proposals for qualifying projects under the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; also requires all responsible public entities to adopt guidelines to guide the selection of projects under the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act containing certain specified provisions; for responsible public entities that are not agencies or institutions of the state, the guidelines must include a mechanism for the appropriating body to review the proposed comprehensive agreement prior to execution under certain circumstances. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB756ER
Title: S.B. 756
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Allows memoranda, staff evaluations, or other records prepared by the responsible public entity, its staff, outside advisors, or consultants exclusively for the evaluation and negotiation of proposals filed under the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002 (PPEA) to be withheld from public disclosure, where if such records were made public prior to or after the execution an interim or a comprehensive agreement, the financial interest or bargaining position of the public entity would be adversely affected. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1002ER
Title: S.B. 1002
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Authorizes any popularly elected school board to appoint a qualified voter who is a resident of the county, city, or town to cast the deciding vote in case of a tie vote of the school board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1810ER
Title: H.B. 1810
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires that any severance benefits provided to any departing official appointed by a local school board shall be publically announced by that school board prior to such departure. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1862ER
Title: H.B. 1862
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
In order to ensure its competitiveness as an employer, allows counties with the county executive form of government to provide for the use of funds, other than state funds, to provide grants, loans, and other assistance for county and school board employees, as well as employees of local constitutional officers, to purchase or rent residences for use as the employee's principal residence, within the county. This bill is identical to SB 1387. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2446ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1387
Title: H.B. 2446, S.B. 1387
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Health |
Passed 03/2007 |
P-12 |
This joint resolution of the legislature establishes a joint subcommittee to study childhood obesity in Virginia's public schools. The subcommittee shall ascertain methods of combating childhood obesity in Virginia public schools and examine the relationship between the health and physical education curriculum; public health policies; social, economic, and cultural influences; and media messages; and the incidence of overweight and obese students in the public schools. The subcommittee shall also examine methods to increase parental involvement and education to ensure proper nutrition of children, and survey other states to determine practices that have been useful in combating childhood obesity. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HJ637ER
Title: H.J. 637
Source: http://legis.state.va.us |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies that advise students, faculty, and staff, including residence hall staff, of the proper procedures for identifying and addressing the needs of students that exhibit suicidal tendencies or behavior. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3064ER
Title: H.B. 3064
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to request a waiver from duplicative provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that are fiscally and programmatically burdensome to school divisions and are not instructionally sound or in the best interest of children; allows the Board of Education and Office of the Attorney General of Virginia to bring suit against the United States Department of Education if, as a result of the Virginia's withdrawal from NCLB, funds that are not directly related to NCLB and that help children from low-income families meet challenging academic content and achievement standards are withheld . This bill is identical to SB 1212, which was also passed and sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2542ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1212ER
Title: H.B. 2542, S.B. 1212
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Chapter No. 822: Creates the Pregnant Women Support Act. Provisions include several related to education: Providing support services for students of institutions of higher education; providing funds to allow early childhood education programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to complete high school and provide job training education; or providing for teenage or first time mothers education on the health needs of their infants through free home visits by registered nurses.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3183ER
Title: H.B. 3183, S.B. 1088
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program for the purpose of providing higher education grants of up to $2,000 per year to domiciles of Virginia who have successfully completed an acceptable associate degree program at a public two-year institution of higher education beginning with the first-time entering freshman class of the fall 2007 academic year; grant eligibility requires a student must (i) have received an associate degree at a Virginia two-year public institution of higher education, (ii) have enrolled in a Virginia four-year public or private institution of higher education by the fall following the award of the associate degree, (iii) have applied for financial aid, and (iv) have financial need; eligibility is limited to three academic years or 70 credit hours. This bill is identical to SB 749.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1681H3
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=071&typ=bil&val=sb749
Governor's recommendation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+HB1681AG
Title: H.B. 1681, S.B. 749
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Includes the surviving spouses and children between the ages of 16 and 25 of members of the Virginia National Guard or members of the Virginia State Defense Force killed in the line of duty among the beneficiaries entitled to free undergraduate tuition and the payment of required fees at any public institution of higher education in Virginia. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1187ER
Title: S.B. 1187
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies that active duty military personnel, or activated or temporarily mobilized (activated for service for 6 months or more) reservists or National Guard members, assigned to a permanent duty station or workplace geographically located in Virginia who reside in Virginia shall be eligible for in-state tuition, along with their dependents, so long as the dependents are continuously enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program of an institution of higher education in Virginia or are transferring between Virginia institutions of higher education or from an undergraduate degree program to a graduate degree program. http://198.246.135.1/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1996ER
Title: H.B. 1996
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Requires the governing board of the Community College System to grant in-state tuition to any person enrolled in one of the System's institutions who lives out of State, but within a 30 mile radius of a community college, provided his state of residence has a reciprocal arrangement.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0112
Impact statement: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+oth+HB2114FER122+PDF
Title: H.B. 2114
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Increases from $2,000 to $4,000 the annual income tax deduction allowed for purchases and contributions for prepaid tuition contracts or savings trust accounts entered into with the Virginia College Savings Plan effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009.http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB785ER
Governor's recommendation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+SB785AG
Title: S.B. 785
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes five or more private institutions of higher education to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. The benefits consortium will be a nonstock corporation that will operate a benefits plan to be governed by and subject to the provisions of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The benefits consortium will be exempt from taxation and from insurance regulations. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3021ER
Title: H.B. 3021
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Revises the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to clarify that qualified survivors and dependents shall be admitted to any public institution of higher education or other public accredited postsecondary institution of higher education or other public accredited postsecondary institution granting a degree, diploma, or certificate in the Commonwealth of Virginia, free of tuition and all required fees. Establishes the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Fund to provide financial assistance for board and room charges, books and supplies, and other expenses. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia is responsible for disbursing funds appropriated or otherwise made available to support the Fund.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0116
Title: H.B. 2179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. |
Prohibits students participating in a course of professional instruction or clinical training program from performing a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless the patient or her authorized agent gives informed consent to such examination, the performance of such examination is within the scope of care ordered for the patient, or in the case of a patient incapable of giving informed consent, the examination is necessary for diagnosis or treatment of such patient. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2969ER
Title: H.B. 2969
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that an adult who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense is guilty of a Class 6 felony if he enters or is present on, during school hours, any property he knows or has reason to know is a public or private elementary or secondary school or child day center property, unless he (i) is lawfully voting; (ii) is a student enrolled at the school; or (iii) has received a court order allowing him to enter upon such property. The bill provides that such an adult may petition the juvenile and domestic relations district court or circuit court in the county or city where the school or child day center is located for permission to enter such property. For good cause shown, the court may issue an order permitting the petitioner to enter and be present on such property, subject to restrictions the court deems appropriate.
This bill is similar to SB 927, which also passed the legislature and was sent to the governor.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2344ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=071&typ=bil&val=sb927
Title: H.B. 2344, S.B. 927
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Chapter No. 284: Prohibits entry of offenders onto school property or day care centers but allows for exemption by petition.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0284
Title: H.B. 2344
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that as a condition of awarding a contract for the provision of services that require the contractor or his employees to have direct contact with students on school property during regular school hours, the school board must require the contractor to provide certification that all employees who will have direct contact with students have not been convicted of a felony or any offense involving the sexual molestation or physical or sexual abuse or rape of a child. The bill also provides that the requirement be waived in emergency situations when it is reasonably anticipated that the contractor or his employees will have no direct contact with students.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0245
Title: S.B. 1346, H.B. 1707
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish a website to facilitate and promote the purchase of Virginia farm products by schools, universities, and other educational institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB797
Title: S.B. 797
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that local school boards may display decals relating to local school division bus safety hotlines on school buses; local school divisions must bear the cost of such decals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1920ER
Title: H.B. 1920
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Increases the maximum speed limit to 60 miles per hour for school buses traveling on interstates and highways where the speed limit is greater than 55 miles per hour. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1729ER
Title: H.B. 1729
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires that any new bus placed into service on or after July 1, 2007, shall be equipped with warning devices that, at a minimum, include a nonsequential system of red traffic warning lights, a warning sign with flashing lights, and a crossing control arm such that when the bus door is opened, the red warning lights, warning sign with flashing lights, and crossing control arm are automatically activated. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3084ER
Title: H.B. 3084
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Permits local school boards to enter into agreements with nonpublic schools in the school division to provide student transportation for a fee to and from the nonpublic schools. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2302ER
Title: H.B. 2302
Source: http://legis.state.va.us |
Service-Learning |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to establish criteria for awarding a diploma seal for excellence in community service for the standard and advanced studies diplomas. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB751
Title: S.B. 751
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows the Board of Correctional Education to develop programs to provide restricted Internet access to online secondary education or adult education and literacy programs leading to a diploma or the General Education Development (GED) program and testing. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3191ER
Title: H.B. 3191
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the Superintendent of the Department of Correctional Education, in cooperation with the Department of Corrections, to create a system for identifying prisoners with learning disabilities. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2625ER
Title: H.B. 2625
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the Department of Corrections to provide access to postsecondary education opportunities for incarcerated individuals via the Internet or videoconferencing technology. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB953ER
Title: S.B. 953
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that counties, cities, towns, school divisions, and certain political subdivisions may establish local trusts or equivalent arrangements to fund postemployment benefits other than pensions. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB789ER
Title: S.B. 789
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Changes participation in the deferred compensation plan for new or rehired state employees, including those of any state agency, county, municipality, authority, or other political subdivision, hired on or after January 1, 2008 to an opt-out plan rather than an opt-in plan. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0253
Title: H.B. 1830
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
In order to ensure its competitiveness as an employer, a locality may, by ordinance, provide for the use of funds, other than state funds, to provide home-ownership grants (up to $5,000 per employee) to employees of the locality, employees of the school board and employees of constitutional officers, to purchase their primary residences in the locality. This bill deleted the requirement that boards must advrtise and post each ordinance on its agenda.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0578
Title: S.B. 1292
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Specifies that the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act can be used for projects related to the technology and infrastructure necessary to deploy wireless broadband services to schools, businesses and residential areas. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2381ER
Title: H.B. 2381
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Extends from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2012, the sunset date of the current sales and use tax exemption for textbooks and educational materials distributed by publishers for free to professors and other individuals who have an educational focus. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB999ER
Title: S.B. 999
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to include in their annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who have met the requirements for a career and technical concentration or specialization and all requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program (aka, "career and technical education completers"). This bill is identical to SB 1148, which also passed and was sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1978ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1148ER
Title: H.B. 1978, S.B. 1148
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the state Board of Education to incorporate instruction on dating violence and the characteristics of abusive relationships into its curriculum guidelines for family life education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1916ER
Title: H.B. 1916
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Postsec. |
Expands economic education and financial literacy programs at public institutions of higher education to include subjects in savings and investments, predatory lending practices and interest rates, consumer fraud, and identity theft and protection. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2513ER
Title: H.B. 2513
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the participating school boards of a joint school, including academic year Governor's Schools operated by two or more school divisions, to select the fiscal agent for the joint school from among the treasurers of the participating localities; requires that the participating school boards must agree and the respective local governing bodies must approve any such selection. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2371ER
Title: H.B. 2371
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to childhood obesity; requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Health Commissioner to work together to combat childhood obesity and other chronic health conditions that affect school age children.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0043
Title: H.B. 2214, S.B. 974
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the state Health Commissioner to work together to combat childhood obesity and other chronic health conditions that affect school age children. This bill is identical to SB 974, which was also signed into law. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2214ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB974ER
Title: H.B. 2214, S.B. 974
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 |
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the Board of Education to study high school dropout and graduation rates in the Commonwealth. In conducting its study, the Board of Education shall (i) evaluate the relevancy of the current process and procedures for defining, counting, and reporting school dropout statistics and consider the need for revisions in such process and procedures and compliance by school divisions; (ii) determine the number of students who dropped out of school before the seventh grade and the reasons therefor and the number of students who graduated annually, for school years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006; (iii) ascertain whether, by whom, and the manner in which students at risk of dropping out are counseled to remain in school; (iv) identify local school division initiatives and efforts to retain and retrieve students at risk of dropping out, particularly student populations with low high school graduation rates; and (v) recommend such policy, statutory, fiscal, or regulatory changes as the Board may deem necessary to increase the high school graduation rates, particularly among student populations with high dropout rates. The Board must submit its executive summary and report to the 2008 Session of the General Assembly. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SJ329ER
Title: S.J. 329
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Leadership |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 |
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the Board of Education to establish and regularly convene a Commonwealth Educational Roundtable to facilitate the implementation and continuation of efforts to improve and sustain quality educational leadership in the Commonwealth's public schools. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+sum+HJ622
Title: H.J. 622
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 |
This joint resolution of the legislature directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the Virginia Preschool Initiative. In conducting its study, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission shall (i) review the statutory authorization for the Virginia Preschool Initiative and funding therefor; (ii) determine the costs of the program to the state and localities since its inception; (iii) assess the manner in which the program has been implemented in the several school divisions and the effectiveness of the current program in preparing at-risk four-year-olds for school readiness and success; (iv) evaluate the continued K-12 academic performance of students who participated in the current preschool program; (v) identify and assess the program's accountability measures to promote effective programs and efficient use of public funds; (vi) study the concept of the Universal Preschool or Pre-K, including which other states have adopted these programs and their success, if any; (vii) evaluate the additional costs, if any, of aligning components of the Virginia Preschool Initiative with the Quality Standards checklist recommended by the National Institute for Early Education Research; (viii) determine whether research has been conducted concerning the efficacy of preschool programs for children of middle- and upper-income parents and report the findings and recommendations; and (ix) consider such other related matters as the Commission deems appropriate to meet the objectives of this study. The Commission must submit its executive summary and report to the 2008 Regular Session of the General Assembly. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HJ729H1
Title: H.J. 729
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Passed 02/2007 |
Postsec. |
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the State Council of Higher Education to conduct as a follow up to the development of its new strategic plan, an assessment of Virginia's competitiveness in attracting and retaining faculty at Virginia's public institutions of higher education. http://198.246.135.1/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HJ642H1
Title: H.J. 642
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the state Council of Higher Education to submit an annual report to the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education specifying the total number of transfer students each institution of higher education admitted, enrolled, and graduated from institutions within the community college system. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2408ER
Title: H.B. 2408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Requires the governing board of the Virginia Community College System to grant in-state tuition to any person enrolled in one of the System's institutions who lives out of state, but within a 30-mile radius of a Virginia community college, provided that person's state of residence has a reciprocal arrangement for Virginia residents. This bill is identical to HB 2114, which also passed and was sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB755ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2114ER
Title: S.B. 755, H.B. 2114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires that each local school board annually review the written school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans of all schools under its supervisory control, and that the local division certify that review in writing to the Virginia Center on School Safety no later than August 31 of each year. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2271ER
Title: H.B. 2271
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that school personnel are authorized to disclose identifying information from a student's education records for the purpose of furthering the ability of the juvenile justice system to effectively serve the student prior to adjudication. Identifying information may be disclosed to attorneys for the Commonwealth, court services units, juvenile detention centers or group homes, mental and medical health agencies, state and local children and family service agencies, and the Department of Juvenile Justice and to the staff of such agencies.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+CHAP0048
Title: H.B. 2631
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 |
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry and the Secretary of Education to establish a farm-to-school task force to develop a plan for implementing a Farm-to-School Program in Virginia. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SJ347ER
Title: S.J. 347
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that due process procedures for students with disabilities prescribed by the Board of Education must require that testimony be given under oath or affirmation administered by the hearing officer. This bill is identical to SB 847, which was also signed into law. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1962ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB847ER
Title: H.B. 1962, S.B. 847
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Raises the standard for the Department of Correctional Education Literacy Program from the eighth grade level to the twelfth grade or GED level; requires the program to include a strategic plan for encouraging enrollment in college or an accredited vocational training program or other accredited continuing education program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2627ER
Title: H.B. 2627
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Community College |
Modifies the ex officio membership of the Board of Correctional Education by removing the chairman of the Virginia Parole Board and adding the Assistant Superintendent for Special Education & Student Services in the Department of Education and the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System; allows ex officio members to designate someone to serve in their place. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2628ER
Title: H.B. 2628
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Empowers the Department of Corrections to develop programs for restricted Internet access to online higher education courses by incarcerated persons. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2041ER
Title: H.B. 2041
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Eliminates the requirement that a student must have been attending a public school in Virginia while residing with a custodial parent prior to the parent's deployment as a member of the Virginia National Guard or as a member of the United States Armed Forces outside the U.S. in order to attend public school without paying tuition. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2092ER
Title: H.B. 2092
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Serious or Habitual Offenders Comprehensive Action Program; provides that a principal or designee may disclose identifying information from a student's education records for the purpose of furthering the ability of the juvenile justice system to effectively serve the student prior to adjudication. Identifying information may be disclosed to attorneys for Virginia, court services units, juvenile detention centers or group homes, mental and medical health agencies, state and local children and family service agencies, and the Department of Juvenile Justice and to the staff of such agencies. This bill is identical to SB 915, which was passed and sent to the governor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2631ER; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB915ER
Title: H.B. 2631, S.B. 915
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes public schools and public institutions of higher education in Virginia to retain copies of enrolled students' birth certificates as part of the students' records. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2893ER
Title: H.B. 2893
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 |
This joint resolution of the legislature establishes a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of a state-wide health insurance experience pool for educators and local government employees, including state and local early retirees not eligible for Medicare. The joint subcommittee must submit its findings and recommendations to the 2008 Session of the General Assembly. This resolution incorporates SJR 308. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SJ372ER
Title: S.J. 372
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to increase the number of teacher candidates pursuing careers in critical teacher shortage areas as defined by the Board of Education; expands eligibility to teacher candidates, including graduate students and paraprofessionals, enrolled full-time or part-time in approved teacher education programs; increases diversity of persons pursuing careers in teaching, including male teacher candidates enrolled in elementary or middle school education programs and minority teacher candidates enrolled in any teaching endorsement area; eliminates the Diversity in Teaching Initiative, as it has not been funded. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1913ER
Title: H.B. 1913
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Issued 11/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs all executive branch agencies, including institutions of higher education, to include emergency preparedness planning, training and promotion as a core component of their mission (Executive Order 2006-42). http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/index.cfm
Title: E.O. 44
Source: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/ |
P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 10/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Continues the Virginia P-16 Education Council. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/pdf/EO_40.pdf
Title: E.O. 40
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Continues the P-16 Council, which was created by former Governor Mark Warner in 2005 and was to be dissolved in October 2006.
Amends the prior responsibilies of the P-16 Council. Provides that the council's responsibilities include the following:
1. Identify opportunities to better coordinate the state's education reform efforts from preschool to graduate school.
2. Work closely with the Start Strong Council and other appropriate entities and organizations to ensure that pre-K and early childhood initiatives are coordinated with other education initiatives.
3. Identify opportunities to improve longitudinal data gathering on student achievement.
4. Serve as a steering committee for oversight of the state's education reform activities as part of the NGA Honor States Grant.
5. Develop approaches to improve transitions among levels of education, promote student success, and encourage students to continue their education.
6. Make recommendations on appropriate legislation and other initiatives to improve educational coordination and achievement.
7. Make any other recommendations as may seem appropriate.
Directs the council to make a report of its activities and recommendations by August 15, 2007. Dissolves the council July 1, 2008.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/2006/EO_40.cfm
Title: EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 40
Source: www.governor.virginia.gov |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Rule Adoption 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends regulations establishing standards for accrediting public schools in Virginia. The amendments include additional options for students to meet the requirements for graduation; change the methodology for calculating accreditation ratings; create greater flexibility for transfer students; add more rigorous benchmarks for accreditation; and better define sanctions for schools, superintendents, and school boards if a school loses its accreditation. Revisions also require all elementary and middle schools to require students to participate in a program of physical fitness during the regular school year in accordance with guidelines established by the Board of Education. Changes made to the proposed regulations (i) add defined terms and clarify existing terms; (ii) clarify that students who are limited English proficient (LEP) may be granted an exemption from Standards of Learning (SOL) testing in the areas of writing, science, and history and social science; (iii)add a provision encouraging elementary schools to provide instruction in foreign languages; (iv) allow advanced courses to include Cambridge courses, in addition to Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and college level courses for degree credit; (v) beginning with the academic year 2008-2009, limit middle school teachers to a teaching load of no more than 25 class periods a week; (vi) restore language removed in the proposed regulation regarding teachers of block programs that encompass more than one class period with no more than 120 student periods per day may teach 30 class periods per week; (vii) add a provision for one planning period per day or equivalent for middle and secondary teachers; (viii) cross reference the responsibility of the division superintendent in reporting compliance with preaccreditation eligibility requirements; and (ix) repeal Appendix I, which is expired. http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/vol22/iss24/f8v20131.doc
Title: 8 VAC 20-131-10 thru -320 non seq.
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/vol22/iss24/v22i24.pdf (pg. 137 of 336) |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Rule Adoption 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides a structured procedure for reenrollment of students into the public school system when they have been in the custody of the juvenile justice system and receiving instruction through the Department of Correctional Education. Establishes a process for the exchange of educational information concerning students among the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Correctional Education and the public school divisions, with procedures, responsibilities, and timelines delineated so that reenrollment and planning for the student's continued education can take place on a timely basis prior to a student's release from the juvenile justice system. http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/vol22/iss22/f8v20660.doc
Title: 8 VAC 20-660-10 thru -40
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/search/reg_query.htm |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 07/2006 |
Postsec. |
Assigns authority and describes responsibilities for carrying out the state's coordination of workforce development services by the Chief Workforce Development Officer. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/2006/EO_25.cfm
Title: E.O. 25
Source: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/index.cfm |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Reduces qualifications to provide home instruction from completion of bachelor's degree to completion of high school diploma. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0932
Title: H.B. 1340
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides a sales and use tax exemption, beginning in 2006, for certain school-related items purchased during a specific three-day period during August each year. The exempt items are (i) school supplies, where the selling price of each item is $20 or less, and (ii) footwear and clothing where the selling price of each item is $100 or less. The bill also authorizes dealers to absorb the sales and use tax on all other items sold during the same time period and thereby relieve the purchaser of the obligation to pay such tax. Dealers who absorb such taxes are liable for payment of the same to the Tax Commissioner.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0579
Title: S.B. 571
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Sets out the minimum requirements for the immunization of children for the state board to include in their regulations. The requirements bring the Commonwealth in line with the Immunization Schedule developed and published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. The bill also requires the State Board of Health to review the section annually and make recommendations to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Joint Commission on Health Care. The bill is contingent on funding. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0716
Title: S.B. 116
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds to definition of "abused or neglected child" to include a child whose parents or other person responsible for his care creates a substantial risk of physical or mental injury by knowingly leaving the child alone in the same dwelling with a person to whom the child is not related by blood or marriage and who the parent or other person responsible for his care knows has been convicted of an offense against a minor for which registration is required as a violent sexual offender. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0868
Title: H.B. 1066
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that every adult who has been convicted of certain sex offenses occurring on or after July 1, 2006, where the victim is 13 or younger and the offender is more than three years older than the victim, must be forever prohibited from working or engaging in any volunteer activity on property he knows or has reason to know is public or private elementary or secondary school or child day center property. Provides that a violation of this section is punishable as a Class 6 felony.
Provides that an employer of a person who violates this section, or any person who procures volunteer activity by a person who violates this section, and the school or child day center where the violation of this section occurred, are immune from civil liability unless they had actual knowledge that such person had been convicted of a specified offense. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0853
Title: H.B. 846
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to develop a plan to eliminate initiatives or conditions that are currently being funded by No Child Left Behind, unless such initiatives or conditions are an integral and necessary component of the Commonwealth's own Standards of Quality, Standards of Accreditation, or Standards of Learning. Upon development of the plan, directs the Office of the Attorney General must provide the Board and the General Assembly with an estimate of the costs for providing legal services in the event the elimination of any initiatives or conditions results in the withholding of Title I funds. Requires the state board to report its plan to the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Finance, and the House Committee on Appropriations by October 1, 2006.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0879, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0904
Title: H.B. 1427, S.B. 410
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Encourages the president of the state board to request from the U.S. Department of Education, in calendar year 2006, the following waivers and exemptions of the statutory and regulatory requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act:
1. Additional flexibility for the Commonwealth to apply sanctions regarding supplemental services and public school choice.
2. The identification of schools in improvement to consider those schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years in the same subject and for the same subgroup.
3. The modification of adequate yearly progress calculation policies to accommodate appropriate measures of progress for students with disabilities and those students who are limited English proficient.
4. The ability to count the passing scores of students on retests in the calculation of adequate yearly progress in a manner that increases the validity of adequate yearly progress determinations across tested grade levels.
Directs the president of the state board to make a report on the status of the above requests to the governor, the chairmen of the senate education and health and house education committees, and the chairmen of the senate finance and house appropriations committees no later than the first day of the 2007 session of the general assembly. Provides that if such report indicates that the U.S. Department of Education's response to the requests is unsatisfactory, the president of the state board must make recommendations to the governor and the general assembly regarding additional actions, which may include, but need not be limited to (i) the nullification and revocation of the Virginia Consolidated State Application submitted to the U.S. Department of Education; (ii) legal actions that may be taken by the Office of the Attorney General; and (iii) additional negotiations with the U.S. Department of Education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0880
Fiscal impact statement: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+oth+HB1428FER122+PDF
Title: H.B. 1428
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the New College Institute, or New College. Directs that New College shall:
1. Seek to diversify the region's economy by engaging the resources of other institutions of higher education, public and private bodies, and organizations of the region and state.
2. Serve as a catalyst for economic and community transformation by leveraging and brokering resources that support economic diversity.
3. Facilitate development of the technology and trained workforce necessary for new economic enterprises to flourish, using the resources available from collaborating educational institutions.
4. Expand educational opportunities in the region by providing access to degree-granting programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs, through partnerships with private and public institutions of higher education, the public schools, and public and private sectors.
5. Encourage and coordinate the development and delivery of degree programs and other credit and noncredit courses with a focus on statewide and regional critical shortage areas as well as the needs of industry. This shall include needed adult education and workforce training.
6. Serve as a resource and referral center by maintaining and disseminating information on existing educational programs, research, and university outreach and technology resources.
Establishes the New College Board of Directors and the powers and duties of the board. Requires the board to direct the development and focus of New College's curriculum. Requires New College to enroll students by the fall semester of 2007 or as soon as practicable. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0808
Title: S.B. 40
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
This bill attempts to modify and strengthen the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund to accomplish the purposes of the program more effectively and efficiently. This bill enhances and increases educational opportunities for eligible persons by adding certain
career and technical education postsecondary schools in the Commonwealth and the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) to the list of approved education programs in which recipients may enroll. This bill also (i) provides that awards may be used to cover the costs of textbooks for approved education programs; (ii) clarifies the duration of awards for career and technical education and training programs, and CLEP; (iii) authorizes the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee to determine approved education programs to preserve the purpose for which the program was created; (iv) exempts scholastic records, personally identifiable information, scholarship applications, confidential letters and statements, and certain other related information pertaining to applicants and recipients of scholarships awarded by the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee, and deliberations of the Committee relating to the review and consideration of awards, scholarship renewal, setting the annual maximum scholarship award, and the cancellation, rescindment, or recovery of awards from FOIA; (v) provides definitions; (vi) authorizes the awards committee to cancel, rescind, and recover awards; (vii) allows students to take courses of a religious or theological nature to satisfy undergraduate elective requirements for a liberal arts nonreligious degree; (viii) requires
applicants to sign acceptance forms, affirming the submitted information and agreeing to pursue the education program for which the award was given to its completion; (ix) establishes criteria for the renewal of awards; (x) requires education agencies to credit promptly student accounts after awards have been disbursed; and (xi) makes certain technical amendments. In addition, the second and third enactment clauses of Chapter 753 and Chapter 834 of the 2005 Acts of Assembly are repealed. The second enactment clause of these chapters permitted students enrolled in approved education programs upon the expiration of the program to complete their course of study. The third enactment clauses of these chapters provided that the State Council of Higher Education must review and approve the application for renewal of scholarship awards to students who were enrolled in approved education programs upon the expiration of the program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0518
Title: S.B. 443
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires that all out-of-state academic-vocational noncollege degree schools operating in good standing in the Commonwealth prior to July 1, 2006, that have not obtained accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education secure accreditation candidacy status by July 1, 2009, and full accreditation by July 1, 2012. Further, on and after July 1, 2006 all out-of-state academic-vocational noncollege degree schools, subject to the provisions of Chapter 21.1 of Title 23, must disclose their accreditation status in all written materials advertising or describing the school that are distributed to prospective or enrolled students or the general public.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0814
Title: H.B. 38
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Allows private, nonprofit institutions of higher education chartered to purchase directly from state contracts established by the Division of Purchase and Supply. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0582
Title: S.B. 664
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Religion |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to high school baccalaureate ceremonies; includes school division sanctioning of high school baccalaureate ceremonies among the prayer-oriented school activities for which the Board of Education, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, must develop guidelines to promote compliance with constitutional restrictions and the observance of constitutional rights.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB493ER
Governor's veto explanation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+amd+HB493AG
Title: H.B. 493
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Adds campus safety and security to the state goals that public institutions of higher education participating in the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operation Act must commit to the Governor and General Assembly to meet.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0775
Title: H.B. 346
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires a school board to expel from school for at least one year a student who possesses a firearm on school property or at a school-sponsored activity. Language changed from "brought a firearm" to "possessed a firearm."
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0703
Title: H.B. 1516
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to assault and battery; adds school bus drivers and a bus driver aide to the protected class of persons. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0829
Title: H.B. 70
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds teacher aides, school bus drivers, and school bus aides to the list of school personnel provided a limited exception to charges of simple assault or assault and battery while acting in the course and scope of their official capacity when using: (i) incidental, minor or
reasonable physical contact or other actions designed to maintain order and control; (ii) reasonable and necessary force to quell a disturbance or remove a student from the scene of a disturbance that threatens physical injury to persons or damage to property; (iii) reasonable
and necessary force to prevent a student from inflicting physical harm on himself; (iv) reasonable and necessary force for self-defense or the defense of others; or (v) reasonable and necessary force to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects or controlled
substances or associated paraphernalia that are upon the person of the student or within his control.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0709
Title: S.B. 26
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Makes it illegal to brandish a machete in a threatening matter with intent to intimidate. Provides that a person who violates this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor or, if the violation occurs upon any public, private, or religious elementary, middle, or high school, including buildings and grounds or upon public property within 1,000 feet of such school property, the person is guilty of a Class 6 felony. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0844
Title: H.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that any local government or combination of governments within planning district 16 may enter into cooperative agreements with a local school division for the use of school vehicles for public transportation purposes during non-school hours. Such agreements may utilize public or private funds for addressing the costs of the program. An enactment clause provides that if no such agreements are entered into by July 1, 2010, the provisions of the act will expire on July 1, 2010.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0821
Title: H.B. 1582
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends standards for remediation programs; requires that data submitted to the state board include the number of students failing any Standards of Learning assessments for grades three through eight; provides that students who fail the Standards for Learning assessments in grades three through eight must attend summer school or after-school remediation programs; requires notification of parents of failure to secure a student's attendance. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0834
Title: H.B. 216
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Board of Education to initiate a review of any alleged violation of its regulations by a local school board or local school board employee responsible for the distribution or administration of tests. The bill also allows the Board to recover the reasonable costs of any review or investigation conducted because of violations of test security from any person who violates test security procedures.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0095
Title: H.B. 348
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds a condition to the release of Standards of Learning assessments by the state board that the release of such assessments to the public may not limit the ability to test students on demand and provide immediate results in the web-based assessment system.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB1059ER, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0038
Title: H.B. 1059, S.B. 34
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that the Board of Education may adopt special provisions related to the administration and use of any SOL test or tests in a content area as applied to accreditation ratings for any period during which the SOL content or assessments in that area are being revised and phased in. Prior to statewide administration of such tests, the Board of Education must provide notice to local school boards regarding such special provisions.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0117
Title: H.B. 813
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that school boards must require, as a condition of employment for all public school employees performing services on a contract basis, certification that the employee has not been convicted of a felony or any offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse, or rape of a child and of whether the employee has been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB1109ER
Title: H.B. 1109
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board and Department of Education to collect certain statewide data on Virginia's public school students with limited English proficiency and school division programs for such LEP students, analyze the data, and recommend steps to resolve the issues relating to the requirements for obtaining a high school diploma and students with limited English proficiency that will retain high academic standards and accountability, while assisting such students in their endeavors to obtain an education and to become productive Virginians.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0526
Title: S.B. 683
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides a sales and use tax exemption, beginning in 2006, for certain school supplies, clothing and footwear purchased during a three-day period each year beginning on the first Friday in August. The exempt items are: each school supply item with a selling price of $20 or less and each article of clothing or footwear with a selling price of $100 or less. The bill also authorizes dealers to absorb the sales and use tax on all other items sold during the same time period and thereby relieve the purchasers of the obligation to pay such tax. Dealers who absorb such taxes are liable for payment of the same to the Tax Commissioner.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0593
Title: H.B. 532
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows participation in a general educational development program by court order; excludes from the compulsory school attendance requirements any child who has obtained a GED certificate; adds to the list of those persons who may participate in the GED testing program, persons 16 years of age or older who have been expelled from school and person required by court order to participate in the testing program; does not apply to persons housed in an adult correctional facility.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0335
Title: H.B. 347
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to collect, analyze, and report high school graduation and drop out data using a formula prescribed by the Board. The measure contains a delayed enactment clause providing that the amendments to § 22.1-253.13:4 will take effect October 1, 2008. A second enactment clause, which will take effect on July 1, 2006, requires the Board of Education to report to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by December 1, 2006, on the formula to be used for the uniform assessment of high school graduation rates. In developing the formula, the Board is also required to consider the 2005 Report of the National Governors Association Task Force on State High School Graduation Data.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0584
Title: H.B. 19
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires persons providing home instruction to hold a high school diploma. Under previous law, such individuals must have held a baccalaureate degree.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0932, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0911
Title: H.B. 1340, S.B. 499
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends the requirements for home instruction to provide that parents may home school their children if they: (i) provide a program of study or curriculum, which in the judgment of the division superintendent includes the standards of learning objectives adopted by the Board of Education for language arts and mathematics, or (ii) provide evidence that the parent is able to provide an adequate education for the child. Currently, parents choosing to home school a child must provide the child a program of study or curriculum that includes the standards of learning objectives adopted by the Board of Education for language arts and mathematics. The bill further provides that a parent who elects to home school a child must provide the division superintendent with evidence that the child has attained a composite score in or above the fourth stanine of any nationally normed standardized achievement test rather than the current requirement that such child receive a score in or above the fourth stanine on a battery of achievement tests that have been approved by the Board of Education for use in the public schools.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0562
Title: H.B. 1483
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires that school boards implement a plan to make Pre SAT examinations available to students receiving home instructions. From the fiscal impact statement: It is estimated that this legislation will not have a fiscal impact on the state. The costs to administer these tests are generally passed on to the student through fees. The cost for each AP exam is $82 for non-disadvantaged students and $57 for disadvantaged,
or low-income, students. The fee for the PSAT is $12 and some localities also charge a nominal administrative fee. Waivers are available for low-income students. The tests are administered at local high schools throughout the state.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0567
Title: H.B. 1588
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Defines "qualifying institution" as an institution of higher education in the Commonwealth or its associated intellectual property foundation that adopts a policy regarding the ownership, protection, assignment, and use of intellectual property pursuant to § 23-4.3. Requires that boards of visitors of state-supported institutions of higher education and the State Board for Community Colleges adopt policies regarding the ownership, protection, assignment, and use of intellectual property. Binds all employees of state-supported higher education institutions to intellectual property policies of the institution employing them. Requires the boards of visitors of state-supported institutions of higher education, including the State Board for Community Colleges, to provide a copy of their intellectual property policies to the Governor and the Joint Commission on Technology and Science. Defines "intellectual property" as (i) a potentially patentable machine, article of manufacture, composition of matter, process, or improvement in any of those; (ii) an issued patent; (iii) a legal right that inheres in a patent; or (iv) anything that is copyrightable. Authorizes boards of visitors, the State Board for Community Colleges, or their designees to assign any interest they possess in intellectual property or in materials in which the institution claims an interest, provided such assignment is in accordance with the terms of the institution's intellectual property policies. Requires The president of each state-supported institution of higher education, including the chancellor of the Virginia Community College System, to report annually to the Governor and the Joint Commission on Technology and Science regarding the assignment of any intellectual property interests by that institution.
This bill reflects the Governor's substitute language.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0077
Title: H.B. 134
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. |
Repeals sections relating to the Virginia Scholars Program by recommendation of the State Council of Higher Education; provides that the Virginia Scholars Program is no longer functional and does not receive appropriations.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB49ER
Title: H.B. 49
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. |
Provides that students entitled to in-state tuition will be assessed a surcharge upon satisfactorily completing 125% of credit hours needed to obtain a degree in the student's chosen program. The surcharge will be an amount calculated to equal 100% of the average cost of the student's education at the relevant institution less tuition and mandatory educational and general fee charges assessed to a student meeting Virginia domiciliary status who has not exceeded 125 % of such credit hours. Certain courses and credit hours are excluded from the calculation of the 125% of the credit hours needed to satisfy the degree requirements for the "credit hour threshold," e.g., remedial courses and credits obtained through advanced placement or international baccalaureate programs or dual enrollment while in high school. A waiver of the surcharge may be granted by the relevant institution, in accordance with the guidelines and criteria established by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). Waiver criteria may include, but need not be limited to, illness or disability or active service in the armed forces of the United States. A second enactment clause requires SCHEV to revise its guidelines for determining in-state tuition charges, which are not subject to the Administrative Process Act, to include these requirements by July 1, 2006, including, but not limited to, notice to students who may be or may become subject to the surcharge and determinations of extenuating circumstances.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0806
Title: S.B. 542
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to recover a civil penalty of at least $200 but not more than $1,000 per violation, for each violation of the chapter relating to regulation of certain private and out-of-state institutions. The civil penalty is available when there has been no criminal prosecution instituted against such postsecondary school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0048
Title: H.B. 36
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires that if a student declares an intention to transfer credit from an institution within the Virginia Community College System to a four-year public institution, the articulation agreement in force at the time of the student's declaration will determine those credits that may be transferred if the student (i) completes an associate degree within four years of submitting a written declaration of intent to transfer to a four-year public institution of higher education in Virginia and (ii) enrolls in such institution within 18 months of completing an associate degree.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0531
Title: H.B. 57
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
This bill requires all four-year public higher education institutions to develop articulation, transfer, and dual enrollment and admissions agreements, including dual admissions programs for qualified students to be simultaneously accepted by a community college and, contingent upon the successful completion of an acceptable associate degree program from the community college, by a four-year public institution of higher education. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) must include in its guidelines for these agreements conditions required to establish dual admissions programs that set forth the obligations of the students accepted in the programs, including grade point average requirements, acceptable associate degree programs, completion timetables, and the students' access to the privileges of enrollment in both institutions while attending either institution.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0379
Title: S.B. 538
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Religion |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Reallocates the duty to authorize a comparative religion class from local school boards to the Board of Education. In the process of revising the Standards of Quality, language was inadvertently altered during the 2004 Session.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0161, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0090
Title: S.B. 62, H.B. 215
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to reduction of state aid when the length of the school term is below 180 days or 990 hours; provides for a declared state of emergency; relates to calendars and teaching contracts. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0026, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0096
Title: S.B. 66, H.B. 349
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Enhances current procedures for notation in school records of missing children and local law-enforcement cooperation with the schools by mandating that, (i) within 24 hours of the missing child report, local law enforcement must notify the principal of the school where the missing child is or was most recently enrolled of the report so that the school can mark the student's record; and (ii) upon notification that the marked child's record has been requested, the Superintendent of State Police must immediately initiate an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the request. Additionally, the bill defines the term "mark" as an electronic or other indicator that is readily apparent on the student's record.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0295
Title: H.B. 1482
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends the requirement that principals or their designees receive notification from local law enforcement authorities when students in their school commit certain crimes to require that such notification be given, whether the student is released to the custody of his parent or, if 18 years of age or more, is released on bond.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0146
Title: H.B. 1279
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child of school age to provide to a public school information concerning certain criminal convictions or delinquency adjudications. When the registration results from foster care placement, the information shall be furnished by the relevant social services agency. Amends a prior provision that required a sworn statement or affirmation indicating whether the student has been expelled from school attendance at a private school or in a public school division of the Commonwealth or in another state for an offense in violation of school board policies relating to weapons, alcohol or drugs, or for the willful infliction of injury to another person. Amendment requires that such a document be maintained as a part of the student's scholastic record.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0183, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0053
Title: S.B. 656, H.B. 95
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Permits personnel files of all school board employees to be produced and maintained in digital or paper format.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0191
Title: H.B. 434
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows for maximum speed limits for school buses of 45 mph on highways with posted speed limits of 55 mph or less and 55 mph on highways with posted speed limits greater than 55 mph.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0416
Title: H.B. 650
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to provide each prisoner with certain documents upon discharge, including verification of the prisoner's work history while in custody and certification of all educational and treatment programs completed by the prisoner while in custody. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0108
Title: H.B. 691
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Standards |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Moves the biennial review of the standards of quality conducted by the state board from the odd-numbered years to even-numbered years. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0130, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0042
Title: H.B. 1058, S.B. 71
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
STEM |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology Career Grant Program to provide higher education grants to domiciles who are enrolled in an undergraduate program preparing students for careers in professions in the areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology; includes public or private nonprofit educational institutions.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0557
Link to fiscal impact statement: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+oth+HB1244FER122+PDF
Title: H.B. 1244
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows local school divisions to electronically store and maintain student scholastic records (including, but not limited to, handwriting, print, computer media, video or audio tape, film, microfilm, and microfiche.)
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0047
Title: H.B. 20
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Prohibits local school boards from administering questionnaires or surveys to public school students if such questionnaires or surveys seek disclosure the parents' political affiliations or beliefs; the social security numbers of the parents or student; the sexual behavior and attitudes of the student and his family members; or disparaging information about family members.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0145
Title: H.B. 1242
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes a biennial review of the compensation of teachers and other occupations requiring similar education and training and requires such a review to consider the Commonwealth's compensation for teachers relative to member states in the Southern Regional Education Board. Requires the evaluation of each teacher with continuing contract status at least once every three years; provides that the evaluations must be maintained in the employee's personnel file.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0373
Title: S.B. 324
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows persons who retired as other than a teacher to teach in a critical shortage position while continuing to receive a retirement allowance, provided the person becomes licensed by the Board of Education to serve as a local school board instructional or administrative employees.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0513
Title: S.B. 99
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the state board from conditioning full approval of teacher education programs provided by an institution of higher education on the number of students in individual licensure programs, such as, but not limited to, prekindergarten-three, Spanish, music education, high school physics, or other disciplines or documented efforts to increase enrollment in such programs. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0382
Title: S.B. 687
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Technology |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates the Office of Learning Technology within the State Council of Higher Education to facilitate and coordinate the voluntary participation of public and private institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth in technology-enriched initiatives. The Office is charged with establishing and administering agreements with nonprofit public and private institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth and other entities for the identification of unmet needs for technology-enriched educational programs and opportunities, and the development and delivery of technology-enriched initiatives, including distance and distributed learning initiatives, for currently served populations and underserved constituencies. In addition, the Office must (i) review technology-enriched learning initiatives and make recommendations to the Council regarding unnecessary duplication in such initiatives; (ii) assist in the development of standards for improving access to, training for, and efficiency in such learning initiatives; and (iii) enter into contracts for related program development. The bill is contingent on funding in the appropriations act.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0537
Title: H.B. 305
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. |
Provides that the governing boards of public institutions of higher education must implement policies for minimizing the cost of textbooks
for students at colleges and universities. The guidelines must include:
• that faculty textbook adoptions are made with sufficient lead time to university- or contract-managed bookstores so as to confirm availability of the requested materials and, where possible, ensure maximum availability of used textbooks;
• that in the textbook adoption process, the intent to use all items ordered, particularly each individual item sold as part of a bundled package, is affirmatively confirmed by the faculty member before the adoption is finalized. If the faculty member does not intend to use each item in the bundled package, he shall notify the bookstore, and the bookstore shall order the individualized items when their procurement is cost effective for both institutions and students and such items are made available by the publisher;
• that faculty members affirmatively acknowledge the bookstore's quoted retail price of textbooks selected for use in each course;
• that faculty members are encouraged to limit their use of new edition textbooks when previous editions do not significantly differ in a substantive way as determined by the appropriate faculty member; and
• that the establishment of policies shall include provisions for the availability of required textbooks to students otherwise unable to afford the cost.
The measure further provides that no funds for financial aid from university bookstore
revenue may be counted in the calculation for state appropriations for student financial aid.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0561
Title: H.B. 1478
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to make the Standards of Learning assessments publicly available in a timely manner and as soon as practicable following the administration of such tests, so long as it does not limit the ability to test students on demand and provide immediate results in the web-based assessment system. The original version of this bill required the Board to make the assessments available from time to time, but not less than once every three years.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0038, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0131
Title: S.B. 34, H.B. 1059
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Board of Education to initiate a review of any alleged violation of its regulations by a local school board or local school board employee responsible for implementing the regulations of the Board, including the distribution or administration of tests. The bill also allows the Board to recover the costs of any investigation conducted because of violations of test security from any person who violates test security procedures. Any person who violates the provisions of this bill may be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each violation.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0025
Title: S.B. 39
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that any person who knowingly makes a false statement concerning the residency of a child for the purpose of avoiding tuition charges shall be liable to the school division in which the child was enrolled as a result of such false statements for tuition charges for the the student was enrolled in the school division.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB1222ER
Title: H.B. 1222
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a popularly elected school board with an even number of members, to appoint a tiebreaker in case of a tie vote.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0029
Title: S.B. 502
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Revises statutes governing teacher licensure regulations and regulation of teacher education programs by repealing the current statutes and reenacting teacher licensure and teacher education program provisions. The bill provides that the Board of Education (BOE) must prescribe, by regulation, the requirements for licensure of teachers and other school personnel. The Board's regulations must include requirements that a person seeking initial licensure complete professional assessments prescribed by the Board and complete study in attention deficit disorder, gifted education, and family involvement in student learning. In addition, every person seeking initial licensure or licensure by renewal must demonstrate proficiency in the use of educational technology and receive professional development in instructional methods promoting student academic progress and Standards of Learning assessments. Persons seeking initial licensure or first-time licensure renewal must complete
prescribed study in child abuse. All persons seeking licensure with an endorsement as a teacher of the blind and visually impaired must demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing Braille. The Board's regulations must also provide for licensure of principals and assistant principals contingent upon a prescribed assessment; criteria to effectuate the substitution of experiential learning for coursework for those seeking initial licensure through an alternate route; and licensure by reciprocity. The Board's regulations may provide for provisional licensure valid for up to three years.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0027
Title: S.B. 74
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Aligns language regarding the Standards of Learning assessments with amendments made to the Standards of Quality. The bill reflects the Commonwealth's decision to shift from testing in grades three, five, and eight to testing annually in grades three through eight.
Allows division superintendents to seek immediate compliance with the compulsory school attendance law after a reasonable effort to seek the student's attendance in a summer school program or after-school session has failed, including direct notification of the parents of such student of the attendance requirement and failure of the parents to secure the student's attendance, when:
1. A student is required to take a special program of prevention, intervention, or remediation in a public summer school program or to participate in another form of remediation; and
2. The division superintendent determines that remediation of the student's poor academic performance, passage of the Standards of Learning Assessment in grades three through eight, or promotion is related directly to the student's attendance in the summer school program or participation in another form of remediation.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0041
Title: S.B. 67
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires that Internet safety instruction emphasizing ways of avoiding dangerous, inappropriate, and unlawful Internet use to students in school divisions in which the resource officers are employed. Requries the state superintendent to issue guidelines.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0052
Title: H.B. 58
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
Postsec. |
Repeals provisions relating to the Virginia Work Study Program by recommendation of the State Council of Higher Education; provides that the Virginia Work Study Program is no longer functional and does not receive appropriations.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB50ER/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB50ER
Title: H.B. 50
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires each school to implement a "medical emergency response plan" as part of their school crisis and emergency management plan. The Department of Education (DOE) must provide assistance in the development of the plan by referring to the scientific statements prepared by the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other various national emergency response organizations, regarding the components of an emergency medical response plan. The department must also prepare a model plan. From the fiscal note: The bill specifically references information from the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics which would have schools do a lot more in the specific areas of cardiac arrest and early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training activities. This will require more training for school staff. This legislation also requires the department's model plan to address the equipment required for emergency response. If the state's model plan sets out the equipment required for medical response based on the positions of the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other various national emergency response organizations this may require local school divisions to purchase such equipment for implementation of the emergency medical response plans, if such equipment is not already in place.
If no additional state funding is provided to cover any expenses associated with this bill, the costs to localities and DOE will have to be absorbed within current resources.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0043
Title: S.B. 75
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child of school age to provide to a public school, upon registration of a student, information concerning certain criminal convictions or delinquency adjudications; provides that the registration results from foster care placement, the information shall be furnished by the local social services agency or licensed child placing agency that made the foster care placement.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0053
Title: H.B. 95
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the governing boards of educational institutions to establish programs, in cooperation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Office of the Attorney General, to promote the awareness and prevention of sexual crimes committed upon students.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0121
Title: H.B. 910
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Standards |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Changes the Board of Education's required review of the Standards of Quality from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years; provides that in any odd- numbered year following the year in which the Board proposes changes to the Standard of Quality, budget estimates required to be reported take such changes into consideration. From the fiscal note: This legislation moves the review of new standards to even-numbered years, so that any funding received by the General Assembly could be incorporated into biennial rebenchmarking, which begins after each odd-numbered General Assembly session ends. For instance, if funding for additional standards were considered and recommended by the Board in calendar year 2006 and then presented to and adopted by the 2007 General Assembly, funding for any new standards would be "built into" the rebenchmarking process for the 2008-2010 biennium. Not only would the costs of such new standards remain current, but this schedule would provide ample time for local school divisions to plan for the new standards.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0042
Title: S.B. 71
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Revises statutes governing teacher licensure regulations and regulation of teacher education programs by repealing the current statutes and reenacting teacher licensure and teacher education program provisions. The bill provides that the Board of Education (BOE) must prescribe, by regulation, the requirements for licensure of teachers and other school personnel. The Board's regulations must include requirements that a person seeking initial licensure complete professional assessments prescribed by the Board and complete study in attention deficit disorder, gifted education, and family involvement in student learning. In addition, every person seeking initial licensure or licensure by renewal must demonstrate proficiency in the use of educational technology and receive professional development in instructional methods promoting student academic progress and Standards of Learning assessments. Persons seeking initial licensure or first-time licensure renewal must complete
prescribed study in child abuse. The Board's regulations may provide for provisional licensure valid for up to three years.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0349
Title: H.B. 1057
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
P-3 |
Issued 01/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Strong Start Council -- a 17 member body to be appointed by the governor. Powers are duties include:
1. Develop statewide goals and best practices for expanding opportunities for 4 year olds to access quality pre-kindergarten programs, and encourage communities to identify local strengths and challenges in reaching the statewide goals.
2. Oversee the development and implementation of guidelines for local Start Strong programs including, but not limited to, transportation arrangements and eligibility criteria for participating students, qualifications for instructional personnel and administrators, inclusion of privately operated preschool programs, and policies for communication and cooperation with local Head Start and at-risk programs and local school boards.
3. Develop guidelines for the award of grants to local Start Strong councils.
4. Advise the Governor, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources on proposed policy and operational changes that facilitate interagency service development and implementation, communication and cooperation.
5. Identify and establish early childhood education goals for local Start Strong councils.
6. Recommend funding and strategies necessary to increase access to high quality preschool in the Commonwealth, in cooperation with local Start Strong councils.
7. Examine other issues as may seem appropriate.
Staff support is to be provided by the Office of the Governor, the Governor's cabinet secretaries, the Department of Education, and such other agencies as may be appropriate. An estimated 5,000 hours of staff time will be required to coordinate and support the work of the Council.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/pdf/EO_7.pdf
Title: Executive Order 7
Source: http://www.governor.virginia.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Emergency regulation effective December 14, 2005, through December 13, 2006 that assists juveniles in acquiring necessary work habits, developing marketable skills, and identifying career goals through a range of career opportunities and mentoring apprenticeship programs. http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/vol22/iss09/v22i9.pdf (pg.207)
Title: 6 VAC 35-190-10 thru -120
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/issfiles.htm |
P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 10/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the P-16 education council, describes funding, membership and duties. Council's duties include: (1) Identifying opportunities to better coordinate the state's education reform efforts from preschool to graduate school; (2) Serving as a steering committee for oversight of the state's education reform activities as part of the NGA Honor States Grant; (3) Developing approaches to improve transitions among levels of education, promote student success, and encourage students to continue their education; (4) Considering strategies for data systems that provide information about students at all educational levels; and (5) Making any other recommendations as may seem appropriate.
The Council shall make a report of its activities by October 1, 2006. The Council shall meet at the call of the chairman.
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Press_Policy/Executive_Orders/html/EO_100.html
Title: Executive Order 100
Source: http://www.governor.virginia.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 08/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes procedures to allow persons seeking initial licensure as teachers through an alternative route to substitute experimental learning in lieu of coursework. Provides for licensure by reciprocity for individuals who hold a valid out-of-state license. Requires the Board of Education to suspend or revoke the teaching license of any person who knowingly with the intent to compromise the outcome of an athletic competition procures or causes these drugs to be procured to students. VIRGINIA REG 5280 (SN)
Title: 8 VAC 20-21-80, -90, -660, -680
Source: StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor charge for making a false statement concerning the residency of a child in a particular school division or school attendance zone. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0178
Title: H.B. 2382
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that the public schools in a school divisions shall be free to children in foster care living in that school division in the same manner as provided to homeless children and youth pursuant to the McKinney-Vento Act and state law. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0343
Title: S.B. 1006
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates the Entrepreneurship Education Program, consisting of grants administered by the state board to public secondary schools to support innovative educational programs designed to assist students in the development of their entrepreneurial, academic, and life skills. The programs are requried to, among other things, (i) incorporate experiential learning; (ii) include partnerships with business and higher education; and (iii) assist students in practicing and mastering business concepts, such as negotiation, pricing, and the development and implementation of plans for individual student businesses. This act will expire on July 1, 2007, if no gifts, donations, bequests, or other funds effectuating its purposes are received by that date. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0033
Title: S.B. 969
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates the 23-member Commission on Civics Education, comprised of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, legislators, executive branch officials, and citizens. The Commission is to, among other things, (i) identify civic education projects in the Commonwealth and provide technical assistance as may be needed, (ii) build a network of civic education professionals to share information and strengthen partnerships, and (iii) make recommendations to the Board of Education regarding revisions to the Standards of Learning for civics and government. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB1769ER
Title: H.B. 1769
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that physical education is to include activities such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular, muscle
building, or stretching exercises, as appropriate. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0350+pdf
Title: S.B. 1130
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds new section: § 23-2.3. Annual reporting of the use of student fees. Requires each public two- and four-year institution of higher education to publish annually a descriptive report detailing the (i) amount and distribution of student activity fees assessed each semester or during an academic year; and (ii) the name of each organization, including the nature of the organization's activity, that receives funding of $100 or more from student activity fees. Also requires each institution to post the annual report of the use of student activity fees to its website to facilitate access and availability of the report to students enrolled at the institution and their parents. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0532
Title: H.B. 1816
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
The bill requires school divisions to pay 25 percent of the cost of the school efficiency review in the fiscal year immediately following the completion of the final school efficiency review report. Provides for the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget to develop, coordinate and manage a school efficiency review program. The bill also provides that commencing with reviews completed in fiscal year 2006, partial recovery of the cost of individual reviews may be made in the fiscal year beginning not less than 12 months and not more than 24 months following the release of a final efficiency review report for an individual school division. Such recovery may occur if the affected school division superintendent or superintendent's designee has not certified that at least half the recommendations have been implemented or at least half of the equivalent savings of such efficiency review have been realized. Lacking such certification, the school division shall reimburse the state for 25 percent of the cost of the school efficiency review. Such reimbursement shall be paid into the general fund of the state treasury. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0620
Title: H.B. 1967
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Increases the maximum salary to be paid members of the school board (affects the Salem board). Across the state, salaries range from $240 to $5300. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0536
Title: H.B. 1989
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Provides that full time students enrolled for the first time in any four year public institution of higher education shall be vaccinated against hepatitis B unless the student signs a waiver that he has received and reviewed information on hepatitis B and the availability and effectiveness of being vaccinated.
Title: S.B. 712
Source: StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Adds self-injected epinephrine to those medications that public school students diagnosed with asthma or anaphylaxis, may self-administer under certain conditions; provides that school and health department personnel supervising the administration of this medication are immune from civil liability. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB1743ER
Title: H.B. 1743
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides that if after an investigation of a child protective services complaint, the local Department of Social Services determines that the actions or omissions of a person employed by a local school board or school were within such employee's scope of employment and were taken in good faith in the supervision, care, or discipline of students, then the standard in determining if a report of abuse or neglect is founded is whether such acts or constituted gross negligence or willful misconduct. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB2163ER
Title: H.B. 2163
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to provide for the award of verified credits for passing scores on industry certifications, state licensure examinations, and national occupational competency assessments approved by the Board of Education. School boards shall report annually to the Board of Education the number of industry certifications obtained and state licensure examinations passed, and will include this number as a category on the school's achievement report card. Currently, the Standards of Accreditation (SOA) require the accumulation of a specific number of standard and verified units of credit for standard diplomas. The verified unit of credit is awarded upon passage of the relevant Standards of Learning (SOL) test (additional tests approved by the Board of Education), as well as the course. The Standard Diploma requires 22 credits, six of which must be verified units of credit, while the Advanced Studies Diploma requires 24 credits, with nine verified units. The SOA currently require verified units of credit in specific subjects, such as English, mathematics, science, history and social science. The Modified Standard Diploma is awarded to students with disabilities who are "unlikely to meet the credit requirements for a Standard Diploma."
School accreditation is based on pass rates for the SOL assessments. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0345
Title: S.B. 1045
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Directs local school boards to notify students receiving home instruction and their parents of the availability of Advanced Placement and Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test examinations and the availability of financial assistance to low-income and needy students to take these examinations. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0377
Title: H.B. 1767
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the state lead agency for early intervention to contract with local lead agencies for the implementation of local early intervention systems statewide. Under the bill, a local lead agency shall have the duty to (i) establish and administer a local system of early intervention services that are in compliance with all relevant federal and state policies and procedures, (ii) implement consistent and uniform policies and procedures for the determination of parental liability and fees for intervention services, and (iii) manage relevant state and federal early intervention funds for the local early intervention system. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0695
Title: S.B. 1188
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Leadership |
Rule Adoption 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires that individuals seeking initial licensure as a principle or assistant princial on and after July 1, 2005, must pass the School Leaders Licensure Assessment. VIRGINIA REG 5154 (SN)
Title: 8 VAC 20-21-580
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to seek a waiver from compliance with those provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act that are duplicative of the Commonwealth's prior educational accountability system as set forth in the Standards of Quality, Standards of Learning, and Standards of Accreditation, or lacking in cost effectiveness, and that already comply with the spirit and intent of the federal act. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0013
Title: H.B. 2602, S.B. 1136
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides that the noncustodial parent of a student enrolled in a public school or day care center must be included, upon the request of such noncustodial parent, as an emergency contact for events occurring during school or day care activities. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0034
Title: S.B. 981
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Amends, reorganizes, and moves the statute creating the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund to Title 30. Currently, a part of the law is codified in Title 23. The bill also (i) includes several technical amendments to provide clarity and consistency; (ii) reinstates language inadvertently omitted; (iii) prohibits the use of scholarship funds for theological education; (iv) authorizes the Awards Committee to seek, receive, and expend nonstate funds; and (v) resolves the issue of the separation of powers by requiring the State Council of Higher Education to advise and provide technical assistance to the Awards Committee in a manner consistent with its statutory responsibilities for higher education in the Commonwealth. Under the current law, the Scholarship Program and the Awards Committee are created within the legislative branch; however, administration of the Program is shared between the legislative and executive branch agencies. The bill also waives the Standards of Learning requirements and assessments for persons awarded a scholarship under the Program and who are enrolled in a preparation program for the General Education Development (GED) certificate or an adult basic education program for the high school diploma. Also, for the purpose of verifying the domicile of applicants, the Awards Committee is authorized to establish a list of acceptable documents consistent with those required to obtain a Virginia driver's license or identification card, and to access vital records. In addition, the Awards Committee must establish a protocol to facilitate the dual enrollment of eligible students in adult basic education programs and degree programs, and the conventional enrollment of such students in public and private two-year institutions of higher education. Further, the Awards Committee is charged to develop and implement a system that provides transition programs and services to prepare eligible students for academic success in GED preparation and adult basic education programs, and college.
The second enactment clause allows students who are enrolled in an approved education program when the Program expires to complete their education through the renewal of the scholarship, if they demonstrate satisfactory academic achievement. The third enactment clause delegates to the State Council of Higher Education the responsibility to review and approve applications for renewal of scholarship awards of students who were enrolled in approved education programs when the Program expired. The fourth enactment clause repeals Chapter 4.4:5 of Title 23, consisting of §§ 23-38.53:21 through 23-38.53:24, and Chapter 34 of Title 30, consisting of §§ 30-226 through 30-231. This bill has an emergency clause. This bill is a recommendation of the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB2588ER
Title: H.B. 2588
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies the role of the State Council of Higher Education in the certification of postsecondary degree-granting schools other than public institutions of higher education and noncollege degree schools.
Title: H.B. 1719
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Increases from five to seven the citizen members of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, (thereby increasing the board membership from 21 to 23) and specifies that the citizen members shall include two business and industry leaders, and three individuals, one each representing the technology, tourism, and health care industries, respectively. Current law requires that a public school teacher or a division superintendent be included among the citizen members. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0550
Title: H.B. 2422
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires that the governing board of each four year public institution of higher education shall enter into articulation agreements with at least two community colleges to provide for the admission of community college graduates. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB2337ER
Title: H.B. 2337
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides that the local school board, or a committee thereof, or the division superintendent may review petitions for readmission by expelled students. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0096
Title: H.B. 2223
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to include bullying in its standards for school board policies on student conduct and requires school boards to include (i) instruction on the inappropriateness of bullying in their character education programs and (ii) bullying provisions in their student conduct codes. In addition, the measure requires the reporting of incidents of stalking to principals and division superintendents. Finally, except as may be prohibited by federal law, regulation, or jurisprudence, principals must report certain violent acts, stalking, and other conduct to parents of the minor student who is the target of the conduct; included in this report is disclosure that the incident has been reported to law enforcement, and that the parent may contact law enforcement for further information. This bill is identical to HB 2879.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0461
Title: H.B. 2266
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes immunity from civil damages for any school employee, student, or school volunteer who reports incidents of bullying, intimidation, and harassment. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0462
Title: H.B. 2267
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Adds to the list of crimes defined as predicate criminal act: assault by mob, reckless handling of a firearm, extorting money, shooting from a motor vehicle, possession of a firearm, stun weapon or taser on school property and criminal street gang activities. The bill provides enhanced punishments for gang activities taking place at or near schools, colleges, and school buses. The bill allows a witness in a gang prosecution to request that certain information about the witness not be disclosed. Finally, the bill treats criminal street gangs as public nuisances and allows for the enjoinment of such nuisances. This bill is identical to SB1217. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB2217ER
Title: H.B. 2217
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides that principals and division superintendents, in reporting certain serious incidents and crimes for annual recordation and publication by the Department of Education, must accurately indicate any offenses, arrests, or charges as recorded by law-enforcement authorities and required to be reported by such authorities. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0528
Title: H.B. 1716
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows the holder of a valid concealed handgun permit to possess a handgun on school property while in a motor vehicle in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other similar location; amends provisions regarding areas used for extracurricular and school- sponsored functions. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB2535ER
Title: H.B. 2535
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to develop guidelines for school boards in establishing student dress codes designed to prohibit any apparel or style of dress that may prompt school violence or illegal gang activity. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0520
Title: H.B. 1573
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Places upon the Department of Correctional Education the primary duty of transferring academic, career and technical education and related achievement information to local school boards when children are returned to the community from the Department of Juvenile Justice's care. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0154
Title: H.B. 1789
Source: StateNet |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Revises the Standards of Quality to require local school boards to (i) provide for data collection and analysis and to use such results in instructional program evaluation; (ii) implement any actions identified through the academic review of schools accredited with a warning; (iii) analyze and report annually the results of industry certification examinations; (iv) annually review their professional development programs; and (v) report compliance with the Standards of Quality annually to the Board of Education. In addition, the bill (i) increases from 10 to 17 the full-time equivalent instructional positions for each 1,000 students identified as having limited English proficiency; (ii) provides that teacher, administrator, and superintendent evaluations shall be consistent with the performance objectives included in the Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Administrators, and Superintendents developed by the Board of Education; (iii) replaces Board- and locally-adopted six-year statewide or divisionwide plans, as the case may be, (including those for educational technology) with "comprehensive" statewide or divisionwide plans; and (iv) replaces individual school six-year plans with "comprehensive" plans. Requires each local school board to annually review its professional development program for quality, effectiveness, participation by instructional personnel, and relevancy to the instructional needs of teachers and the academic achievement needs of the students in the school division. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0331
Title: S.B. 779, H.B. 1762
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides that the Virginia High School League must establish rules requiring that, upon disclosure, a public school student athlete who uses anabolic steroids during the training period immediately preceding or during the sport season of the school athletic team on which he is a member be ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletic competition for two years, unless the steroid was prescribed by a licensed physician for a medical condition. Student use of anabolic steroids during the training period immediately preceding or during the sport season of the school is required to be reported, unless the steroid was prescribed by a licensed physician for a medical condition. The bill also requires the Board of Education to suspend or revoke the administrative or teaching license of any person who knowingly and willfully with the intent to compromise the outcome of an athletic competition procures, sells, or administers anabolic steroids or causes these drugs to be procured, sold, or administered to students, or by failing to report student use of anabolic steroids. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0481
Title: H.B. 2832
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides for teacher licensure by reciprocity for an individual who has obtained a valid out-of-state license that is in force at the time the application for a Virginia license is made. The individual must establish a file in the Department of Education by submitting a complete application packet, which shall include official student transcripts. No professional teacher's assessment or service requirements are to be imposed for these licensed individuals.
Current Board of Education regulations (8 VAC 20-21-90) require a professional teacher's assessment (PRAXIS) for out-of-state applicants who (i) have completed a state-approved teacher training program through a regionally accredited four-year college or university, or (ii) hold a valid out-of-state teaching license in force at the time the license application is made. These persons must also provide student transcripts.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+SB949ER
Title: S.B. 949
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education, in its regulations governing teacher licensure, to establish criteria and a procedure to allow teachers seeking initial certification to substitute experiential learning in lieu of the coursework required under current teacher licensure standards. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB2790ER
Title: H.B. 2790
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to adopt policies providing for the donation of leave and leave without pay for school board employees with debilitating or life threatening illness or injury, without regard to the employee's length of service with the school board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0486
Title: H.B. 2912
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Extends from July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2010, the sunset date for provisions allowing retirees to be hired as teachers or administrative personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0605
Title: H.B. 1787
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Extends to 2010 the current sunset on the requirements that division superintendents identify and report critical shortages to the school board and local school boards identify and report critical shortages to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Virginia Retirement System. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0608
Title: H.B. 1781
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Adds a new section of law that prohibits university employees from receiving any incentives for requiring students to purchase specific textbooks; requires governing boards to implement procedures for making website listings of required textbooks available to students. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0530
Title: H.B. 1726
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Outlines the process and procedures for conducting the division-level academic review and submitting the corrective action plan to the Board of Education. Addresses the criteria for selection for the division- level academic review and improvement plans.. VIRGINIA REG 5136 (SN)
Title: 8 VAC 20-700-10 thru -50
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Incorporates nondegree proprietary schools into SCHEV current policy of self-certification. VIRGINIA REG 565 (SN)
Title: 8 VAC 40-30, 40-31-10 thru -320
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Family Life Education Program in grades K through 12; provides additions to the curriculum include steps to take to avoid sexual assault, the availability of counseling and legal resources and, in the event of such sexual assault, the importance of immediate medical attention and advice, as well as the requirements of the law.
Title: H.B. 1015
Source: StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board, in consultation with the chairpersons of the eight regional superintendents' study groups, to provide for timely review of the Standards of Learning test scores by school divisions for coding and other errors and prompt reporting to the local school divisions by the Department of Education of the test scores that will be used to determine each school's status pursuant to the provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110). http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0404
Title: S.B. 416
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to include requirements for the reporting of the Standards of Learning assessment scores and averages for each year as part of the board's requirements relating to the School Performance Report Card. Such scores must be disaggregated for each school by gender and by race or ethnicity, and shall be reported to the public within three months of their receipt. These reports must be posted on the portion of the Department of Education's website relating to the School Performance Report Card, in a format and in a manner that allows year-to-year comparisons, and (ii) may include the National Assessment of Educational Progress state-by-state assessment. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1254ER
Title: H.B. 1254
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Modifies provisions. When the state board has obtained evidence through the school academic review process that the failure of schools within a division to achieve full accreditation status is related to division level failure to implement the Standards of Quality, the board may require a division level academic review. After the conduct of such review and within the time specified by the board of Education, each school board shall submit for approval by the board a corrective action plan. The board has the authority to mandate or otherwise enforce compliance with such standard, including the development or implementation of any required corrective action plan that a local school board has failed or refused to develop or implement in a timely manner. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1294ER
Title: H.B. 1294
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1294ER |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local school boards to employ turnaround specialists to address conditions at a public school that may impede educational progress and effectiveness and academic success. The bill also authorizes local school boards to offer increased retirement benefits and compensation to turnaround specialists and licensed instructional personnel teaching in a subject matter in grades six, seven, or eight under a middle school critical shortage program adopted by the state board. Local school boards may offer such turnaround specialists or other administrative personnel incentives such as increased compensation, improved retirement benefits in accordance with Chapter 6.2 (§ 51.1-617 et seq.) of Title 51.1, increased deferred compensation in accordance with § 51.1-603, relocation expenses, bonuses, and other incentives as may be determined by the board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0436
Title: H.B. 576
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Correctional Education to arrange for noncustodial parent offenders committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections to be afforded the opportunity to participate in pre- and post- release parenting programs that include parenting skills training, anger management and literacy skills. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=sb576
Title: S.B. 98
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Creates an At-Risk Student Academic Achievement Program and fund to provide grants to public school divisions for programs to improve the achievement of at-risk students, decrease the dropout rate and increase the number of students getting advanced studies diplomas. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=hb1013
Title: H.B. 1013
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Deletes language defining educationally at risk students as those whose scores are in the bottom national quartile on Virginia State Assessment Program tests, and adds that educationally at risk students are those who do not pass a 3-8 Standards of Learning assessment. Deletes language allowing each school board to establish a remediation program standards committee. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Strengthens the mechanisms for enforcement of the compulsory school attendance law; removes the restriction on the court's use of contempt power in enforcing compulsory school attendance and parental responsibility provisions; clarifies and reinforces the court's authority to order the child or the parent, or both, into programs, such as extended day programs and summer school or other educational programs and treatment, such as counselling. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1326ER
Title: H.B. 1326
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Directs local school boards to notify parents of the educational rights of students who fail to graduate or who have failed to achieve the number of verified units of credit required for graduation as provided in the standards of accreditation or who have been identified as having limited English proficiency or who have been identified as disabled and receive special education of their right to a free public education through age 21. Pursuant to §§ 22.1-1 and 22.1-5, public schools are free to "persons of school age" (at least age five on or before September 30 of the school year and under 20 years of age on or before August 1). In addition, subsection D of § 22.1-5 sets forth for students for whom English is a second language the opportunity for a free public education through the age of 21. Finally, persons who have been identified as disabled who receive special education are entitled to a "free and appropriate education" through 21 years of age pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and § 22.1-213. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0509
Title: S.B. 438
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12,
Community College |
Directs local school boards to include, within the currently required career and technical education program, curricula that promote knowledge of entrepreneurship and small business ownership. Current programs are to address "all types of employment opportunities," such as apprenticeships, the military, and career education schools. The bill also requires that notice of dual enrollment opportunities between high schools and community colleges be provided to students and parents. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0848
Title: H.B. 769
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires charter school applications to disclose any ownership or financial interest in the public charter school, by the charter applicant and the governing body, administrators, and other personnel of the proposed public charter school, and requires that the successful applicant and the governing body, administrators, and other personnel of the public charter school have a continuing duty to disclose such interests during the term of any charter. The charter applicant must include in the proposed agreement the results of any Board of Education review of the public charter school application that may have been conducted. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB380ER
Title: H.B. 380
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Green schools program; education programs to promote waste reduction and resource efficiency. Authorizes the state board to assist local school boards in the development and implementation of programs of instruction that comply with the provisions of Standard 1 of the Standards of Quality, specifically relating to citizenship and environmental issues and geography necessary for responsible participation in American society and the international community, by cooperating with the environmental groups, other relevant state agencies, such as, but not limited to, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health, and other stakeholders in the development of a green schools program for Virginia. Any such green schools program will focus on waste reduction through recycling and other mechanisms and educating students to help schools contain costs and to reduce waste production through resource efficiency. In the development and implementation of any such program, the Board must examine other states' green schools programs and must receive input from parents, teachers, school administrators, school boards, business and industry leaders, and local governments. The Board must also strive to identify businesses and other organizations that may provide support in the form of resources or funding for appropriate awards for any green schools program that may be implemented in the Commonwealth. This provision must not be construed to require the Board or any school board in the Commonwealth to implement a green school program or to imply or otherwise indicate that state or local funding is required to develop or implement any green school program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0882
Title: S.B. 315
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Deletes language requiring the Standards of Learning to include the development of personal qualities such as self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity and honesty. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Creates new section requiring school divisions to provide students alternatives to student dissection of animals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0918
Title: H.B. 1018
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards to incorporate art, music, and physical education as a part of the instructional program at the elementary school level, and to employ five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research to the list of those entities characterized as "educational institutions" and "governmental instrumentalities for the dissemination of education." This designation will not empower the Institute to establish unfunded scholarships (§ 23-31), nor will it place the Institute under the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), the coordinating council for two- and four-year public colleges and universities. In addition, the designation does not require the Institute to submit an annual report to SCHEV regarding financial statements (§ 23-1.01). http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0857
Title: H.B. 933
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Increases the membership of the governing board of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research from nine to 15 by adding six citizen representatives, two each appointed by the Governor, the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, and the Speaker of the House of Delegates. Created by the 2002 Session, the Institute is located in Danville and was founded by Averett University, Danville Community College, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The Institute is authorized to enter into and administer agreements with institutions of higher education to deliver traditional and electronic education and is to diversify the region's economy by providing a site for the development of technology and a trained workforce and expanding access to higher education in Southside Virginia. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0856
Title: H.B. 932
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Directs the State Council of Higher Education to develop policies and strategies to eliminate the barriers between the Commonwealth's institutions of higher education and industry and enhance the development of human capital in the Commonwealth. More specifically, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) shall develop policies to eliminate the barriers between the Commonwealth's institutions of higher education and industry and enhance the development of human capital in the Commonwealth. These policies and strategies shall include a review of (i) offering incentives for industry to partner with universities in the practical training of undergraduate and graduate students; (ii) providing opportunities and incentives for corporate scientists and engineers to have adjunct appointments at universities to train and collaborate with faculty and students; (iii) assisting universities in acquiring funding to build or buy facilities where academic labs and corporate entities can work together; (iv) providing opportunities and assistance for academic researchers to take one- to two-year sabbaticals in a corporate setting or national lab and bring that experience back to the institution; (v) increasing the two-year leave of absence for science and engineering faculty to generate more industrial-sponsored research; (vi) allowing industry to fully fund faculty salaries and allow the faculty to work in industry while remaining a university employee, with proper safeguards in place; and (vii) allowing faculty to be part-time university employees and part-time industry employees, also with proper safeguards in place. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) shall report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 30, 2004. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB547ER
Title: H.B. 547
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Bond bill; Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Bill of 2004. Authorizes the issuance of 9 (c) bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $255,316,600 for the financing of revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Of the total amount of bonds authorized, $137,700,600 is allocated for previously authorized projects and $117,616,000 is allocated for new projects. This bill is identical to HB 31. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0813
Title: S.B. 31
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Reorganizes the Standards of Quality and makes substantive amendments that would (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iii) require five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require one full-time reading specialist for each 1,000 students in average daily membership; (vii) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
A second enactment clause provides that any provision that is not required on June 30, 2004, and does require state funding will not take effect unless the state's share of the funding for the provision is included in the general appropriation act for the period July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2006, passed during the 2004 Session of the General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor.
The Board of Education proposed and approved these changes on June 25, 2003. Because the Virginia Constitution grants the General Assembly "ultimate authority" over educational policy and provides that the Standards are to be "prescribed from time to time by the Board of Education" but are subject to revision "only by the General Assembly," legislation is necessary to enact the Board's proposals.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0939
Title: S.B. 479, H.B. 1014
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides that an elected school board of certain counties may grant itself fringe benefits, expenses and reimbursements as it deems appropriate and in a manner and form as such are provided to school board employees, after satisfying the notice and public hearing requirements set for in existing law. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB433ER
Title: H.B. 433
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides that school boards are required to post notice of duty to report child abuse or neglect by all employees to local or state social services; provides immunity from civil or criminal liability on account of such reports. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0752
Title: H.B. 1038
Source: StateNet |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires each public school board and each administrator of every private or parochial school to post in each of their schools a notice, pursuant to § 63.2-1509, that: (i) any teacher or other person employed in a public or private school who has reason to suspect that a child is an abused or neglected child, including any child who may be abandoned, is required to report such suspected cases of child abuse or neglect to local or state social services agencies or the person in charge of the relevant school or his designee; and (ii) all persons required to report cases of such suspected child abuse or neglect are immune from civil or criminal liability or administrative penalty or sanction on account of such reports unless such person acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose. The notice must also include the Virginia Department of Social Services' toll-free child abuse and neglect hotline. A second enactment clause requires that the notice will be prepared and distributed to each public school board by the office of the Attorney General. Further, the Attorney General will also furnish, upon request, the notice to any private school. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0710
Title: S.B. 576, H.B. 1038
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends an uncodified act to direct local school boards to adopt procedures, pursuant to Board of Education guidelines, to award verified units of credit for standard diplomas to students who have entered the ninth grade for the first time during the school years of 2000-2001, 2001-2002, and 2002- 2003, and passed the relevant coursework. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1257ER
Title: H.B. 1257
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the boards of visitors of four-year public institutions of higher education, the State Board of Community Colleges and local community college boards to appoint a nonvoting, advisory faculty representative to their boards. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0519
Title: H.B. 64
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires faculty representatives to boards of visitors, the State Board for Community colleges, and local community college boards. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0499
Title: S.B. 244
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Regulation of certain private and out-of-state institutions of higher education. Revises the definition of "institution of higher education" as set forth in the law regulating private and out-of-state colleges, universities, etc., to provide an explicit exception for any public institution of higher education established in statute as an authority and declared a governmental instrumentality pursuant to § 23-14. Present law provides an exception for all state-supported institutions of higher education that are listed in § 23-9.5. However, Eastern Virginia Medical School is covered by the law by virtue of the fact that it is not so listed as a "state-supported institution of higher education" (although EVMS does receive some state funds). Thus, this public institution is currently inadvertently captured under the reporting, etc. requirements of the law relating to private and out-of-state entities. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0671
Title: S.B. 173
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the State Council of Higher Education to facilitate the development of dual admissions and articulation agreements between two- and four-year public and private institutions of higher education in Virginia and requires the Council to develop estimates of the number of degrees to be awarded by each institution and include those estimates in its reports of enrollment projections. The dual admissions and articulation agreements would be subject to the admissions requirements of the four-year institutions. Articulation agreements are agreements between two-year and four-year institutions of higher education or between K-12 schools and two-year institutions of higher education that detail the transferability of courses and credits between two-year and four-year institutions of higher education or between high schools and two-year institutions of higher education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0502
Title: S.B. 338
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the State Council of Higher Education (SCHEV), in cooperation with the governing boards of the public two- and four-year institutions of higher education, to develop a State Transfer Module that designates those general education courses offered within various associate degree programs at the public two-year institutions that are transferable for credit or admission with standing as a junior (third year) to the public four-year institutions. The measure also directs SCHEV to (i) facilitate the development of dual admissions and articulation agreements between the public and private two- and four-year institutions; and (ii) develop and make available to the public information identifying all general education courses offered at public two-year institutions and designating those that are accepted for purposes of transfer for course credit. Any articulation agreements will be subject to admissions requirements of the four-year institutions. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0553
Title: H.B. 989
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the English Standards of Learning for reading in grades K-3 to be based on components of effective reading instruction, including, at a minimum, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary development, and text comprehension. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards to provide early identification, diagnosis, and assistance for students with reading problems and provision of instructional strategies and reading practices that benefit the development of reading skills for all students. Requires one full-time reading specialist for each 1,000 students in average daily membership; http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires an intake officer to notify the school division superintendent of the filing of a petition against a juvenile in cases involving criminal street gang activity. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1080ER
Title: H.B. 1080
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adds criminal act committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with any criminal street gang to those enumerated crimes triggering a requirement that the intake officer provide notice to a school superintendent that a petition has been filed alleging a juvenile committed an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0416
Title: S.B. 593, Similar to S.B. 633
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education, in developing model student conduct policies; includes standards for school board policies to ensure recognition of the fundamental right of every student to take reasonable actions as may prove necessary to defend himself from an attack by another, to ensure that students will not be subject to disciplinary actions for such self-defense. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB433ER
Title: H.B. 513
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to include hazing in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct; provides school boards to prohibit hazing in their codes of student conduct; school boards must cite in their standards for student conduct, the provisions of the criminal law prohibiting hazing, which renders convictions of violations a Class 1 misdemeanor. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1331ER
Title: H.B. 1331
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Allows private institutions of higher learning to enter into certain reciprocal agreements to the same extent as state supported institutions of higher learning as these agreements relate to furnishing of police and other employees and agents. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1392ER
Title: H.B. 1392
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school boards to establish policies prohibiting the possession of firearms on school property, school buses, and at school- sponsored activities, and stipulates that school boards may develop and implement procedures addressing the discipline of students and the restricted access of adults who violate the requirements of such policies. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1117ER
Title: H.B. 1117
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to School division consolidation; provides for a process whereby school divisions may submit proposals for the consolidation of school divisions to include holding public hearings regarding the proposal, consolidation of and the election of a board to assure all representation for all localities, and a plan for the transfer of school property from the two divisions to one division.
School division proposals must include, among other things, (i) evidence of the cost savings to be realized by such consolidation; (ii) a plan for the transfer of title to school board property to the resulting school board; (iii) procedures and a schedule for the proposed consolidation, including completion of current division superintendent and school board member terms; (iv) a plan for proportional school board representation of the localities comprising the new school division, including details regarding the appointment or election processes currently ensuring such representation and other information as may be necessary to evidence compliance with federal and state laws governing voting rights; and (v) evidence of local support for the proposed consolidation.
For five years following completion of such consolidation, the computation of the state and local share for an educational program meeting the standards of quality for school divisions resulting from consolidations shall be the lower composite index of local ability-to-pay of the applicant school divisions, as provided in the appropriation act. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0917
Title: H.B. 978
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Creates a mechanism whereby any school board of a school division in which fewer than 350 students (Highland County) were included in average daily membership (ADM) for the preceding school year, upon entering into certain cost-savings agreements with a contiguous school division for the sharing of educational, administrative, or support services, shall receive the state share for basic aid computed on the basis of the composite index of local ability-to-pay of the contiguous school division, calculated annually, for a period of 15 years. Board of Education eligibility criteria will address the cost-savings and service-sharing agreements and will provide for the adjustment of the state share for basic aid, consistent with the appropriation act.
The local school board receiving the adjusted state share cannot use the additional funds received to supplant local funds appropriated for education. In addition, the adjusted state share cannot be used to reduce local operating expenditures for public education from the prior fiscal year. However, no school division shall be required to maintain a per pupil expenditure for operations that exceeds the per pupil expenditure in the prior fiscal year. If any such contractual agreements between the relevant school divisions terminate prior to the end of the applicable period, the state's obligation to provide the adjusted share shall cease.
The agreement and adjusted state payment shall be in lieu of any existing funds a locality receives from a Small School Division Assistance grant. Pursuant to §§ 22.1-26 and 22.1-27, school boards are already empowered to operate joint schools and to make agreements with adjacent school boards "for furnishing public school facilities and for school services." This bill is effective July 1, 2005. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0820
Title: S.B. 518
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to financial and legal responsibility for special education students with disabilities placed across jurisdictional lines by social services into private residential facility; relates to special education and foster care services.
Title: H.B. 1047
Source: StateNet |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Public school enrollment of homeless children. Revises provisions addressing the public school enrollment of homeless children to reflect the definitions and requirements set forth in the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001---law that is included within the federal No Child Left Behind Act. School divisions are to coordinate the provision of services to such homeless students with relevant local social services agencies and other agencies and programs providing services to such students, and with other school divisions as may be necessary to resolve interdivisional issues. The measure also provides that superintendents cannot exclude from school attendance those homeless children who do not provide the requisite health or immunization information required of other students and deletes the outdated mumps immunization exemption. However, the student must be immediately referred to the local school division liaison who is required to assist the student in obtaining the necessary physical examinations or proof or completion of immunizations. Technical amendments delete references to "guardian" includes guardians, legal custodians, and other persons having "control or charge of a child" within the definition of "parent" throughout Title 22.1. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0500
Title: S.B. 270
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Reporting of certain acts by school authorities to law enforcement. Expands the enumerated activities that school principals must report to local law enforcement by providing that reportable offenses involving "firearms" on school property address any weapon prohibited on school property or at a school-sponsored activity pursuant to § 18.2-308.1, as well as (i) any weapon, including a starter gun, that will, or is designed or may readily be converted to, expel single or multiple projectiles by the action of an explosion of a combustible material; (ii) the frame or receiver of any such weapon; (iii) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or (iv) any destructive device. "Firearm" shall not include any weapon in which ammunition may be discharged by pneumatic pressure. By linking the definition of "firearm" to the definition in § 22.1-277.07 (Gun-Free Schools), the measure captures possession of knives and other weapons. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0542
Title: H.B. 869
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Prohibits local school boards from issuing a previously allowed, valid three-year nonrenewable local eligibility license to special education teachers or any teachers providing instruction in courses that do not represent core academic areas as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1048ER
Title: H.B. 1048
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Each division superintendent is required at least annually, if so requested by the local school board, to survey the relevant local school division to identify critical shortages of teachers and administrative personnel by subject matter and report such critical shortages to the school board, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to the Virginia Retirement System. Retired teachers returning to the classroom must be in critical shortage areas. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1171ER
Title: H.B. 1171
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Home-ownership assistance. Allows that a locality may by ordinance provide for the use of funds, other than state funds, for grants to assist employees of the locality to purchase residences in such locality. The residences shall be the primary residence of any employee receiving such grants or loans and individual grants shall not exceed $5,000 per employee. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0541
Title: H.B. 827
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to sales tax; provides exemption for textbooks and other educational materials for free distribution.
Title: S.B. 347
Source: StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Excuses from compulsory school attendance requirements persons 16 through 18 years of age who are housed in adult correctional facilities and who are actively pursuing a general education development certificate but who are not enrolled in an individual student alternative education plan.
Title: S.B. 404
Source: StateNet |
Business Involvement |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Abolishes the Advisory Council of Virginia Business- Education Partnership Program and the Virginia Business-Education Partnership Program created to assist local programs in obtaining federal funding to establish local business-education partnerships.
Title: H.B. 9
Source: StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school boards to create joint or regional schools offering a specialized curriculum leading to a high school diploma and a postsecondary credential, such as industry certification, career certificated, or degree.
Title: S.B. 553
Source: StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to licensure requirements for principals and other school leaders.
Title: H.B. 573
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Abolishes the Early Intervention Agencies Committee created to ensure the implementation of a comprehensive system for early intervention services and to make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources and the Secretary of Education on issues that require interagency planning, financing, and resolution.
Title: H.B. 15
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Effective January 1, 2005, each public institution of higher education shall include in its strategic plan information indicating to what extent, if any, it will use distance learning to expand access, improve quality, and minimize the cost of education. For institutions using or planning to use distance learning in the future, such information shall include the degree to which distance learning will be integrated into the curriculum, benchmarks for measuring such integration, and a schedule for the evaluation of such courses. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0146
Title: H.B. 617
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to crimes; possession of weapon on school property; eliminates the requirement that any law- enforcement officer be engaged in official duties for authorization to possess a weapon on school property. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0128
Title: H.B. 286
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows licensed teachers employed in a full-time teaching capacity in public schools or in state educational facilities to purchase personal computers and related devices for use outside the classroom on state contract.
Title: H.B. 508
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the Department of Human Resources Management to offer the long term care insurance plan currently available to state employees to any person who has five or more years of creditable service in any retirement plan administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
Title: H.B. 1179
Source: StateNet |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2004, to July 1, 2008, for textbooks and other educational materials withdrawn from inventory at book-publishing distribution facilities for free distribution to professors. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0590
Title: H.B. 1084, S.B. 347
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary |
Issued 01/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
The governor created the Governor's Commission on Higher Education Board Members. The Commission shall develop and implement a process for evaluating potential appointees to higher education governing boards based on substantive qualifications such as merit and experience. The Commission also shall make other recommendations to the Governor as may be appropriate. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Press_Policy/Executive_Orders/html/EO_63.html
Title: Executive Order 63 - 2004
Source: Virginia State Web site |
High School |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes emergency rules to clarify and update the definition of 'diploma candidate' to eliminate any confusion in school divisions. Increases the options for individuals to earn a diploma. VIRGINIA REG 440 (SN)
Title: 8 VAC 20-680-10
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
An alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, and therefore ineligible to establish domicile pursuant to § 23-7.4, shall not be eligible on the basis of residency within Virginia for any postsecondary educational benefit, including in-state tuition, unless citizens or nationals of the United States are eligible for such benefits in no less an amount, duration, and scope, without regard to whether such citizens or nationals are Virginia residents. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+HB2339ER Veto statement: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+amd+HB2339AG
Title: H.B. 2339
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Beginning July 1, 2003, provides for the Joint Rules Committee to appoint five of the 11 members of the State Council of Higher Education, and for the Governor to appoint six members. Initial appointments to be made by the Governor and the Joint Rules Committee under the bill are as follows: (i) for the two appointments expiring on June 30, 2003, the Governor shall appoint one member and the Joint Rules Committee shall appoint one member; (ii) for the three appointments expiring June 30, 2004, the Governor shall appoint two members and the Joint Rules Committee shall appoint one member; and (iii) for the three appointments expiring June 30, 2005, the Joint Rules Committee shall appoint three members. Three members shall be appointed by the Governor in 2006. Appointments made by the Joint Rules Committee shall be from a list or lists of persons recommended by the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health, and the House Committees on Appropriations and Education. Current law provides for the Governor to make all appointments to the State Council of Higher Education. This bill is identical to SB 1255. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+sum+HB2678S Veto explanation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+amd+HB2678AG
Title: H.B. 2678
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires voluntary and mandatory drug testing policies, in accordance with the most recent enunciation of constitutional principles by the Supreme Court of the United State of America, to be included in the Board of Education's guidelines for student conduct policies and guidelines for conducting student searches.
Title: H.B. 2091
Source: StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a juvenile who is found to be in need of services or in need of supervision for failure to comply with the compulsory school attendance requirements to be deferred for a period of 120 days and admitted to a truancy program approved by the court; provides this does not limit the court's authority to order other dispositions for the supervision, care and rehabilitation of the juvenile in addition to the services provided by a truancy program.
Title: H.B. 1559
Source: StateNet |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends the Standards of Quality to require school boards to identify students with limited English proficiency and enroll these students in appropriate instructional programs and to require state funding, pursuant to the appropriation act, for 10 full-time equivalent instructional positions for each 1,000 students identified as having limited English. The state share for this staffing requirement is currently funded at $8,822,504 and $10,428,613 in the first and second year of the 2002-2004 biennial budget, respectively. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0714
Title: H.B. 2442
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to establish criteria for awarding a diploma seal for excellence in civics education and understanding of the state and federal Constitutions and the democratic model of government for the standard and advanced studies diplomas.
Title: H.B. 1503
Source: StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends the two uncodified Acts of Assembly requiring the posting of the National Motto in public schools to add the required posting of the text to the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, along with the statement, The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Title: H.B. 2140
Source: StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Modifies the current character education requirement to require instruction in what is designated as the Virginia Statement of Values; requires school boards to provide for the posting of the Virginia Statement of Values in each public school classroom in which civics, social studies, history, or government instruction occurs; provides that school boards may accept cash or in-kind contributions to meet this requirement.
Title: H.B. 1498
Source: StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Codifies and broadens existing budget language to direct the Department of Education to collect annually necessary data to make calculations at the beginning and end of each school year to ensure that each school division has appropriated sufficient funds to support its estimated required local expenditure for providing an educational program meeting the prescribed Standards of Quality (SOQ). The end-of-year calculations shall be designed to verify whether the locality has provided the required expenditure, based on average daily membership as of March 31 of the relevant school year. Where boards have refused or failed to allocate necessary funding, the board must notify the Attorney General of such failure or refusal in writing signed by the president of the board. Upon receipt of such notification, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to file in the circuit court for the county, city or town a petition for a writ of mandamus directing and requiring such governing body to make forthwith such appropriation as is required by law. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0948
Title: H.B. 2151
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides that schools must be maintained in a manner ensuring compliance with the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code and that the school be accessible, barrier free, safe, and clean; provides suitable space for classrooms, administrative staff, pupil personnel services, library media services, and physical education as well as properly-equipped laboratories; provides for standards of learning. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0861
Title: S.B. 710
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends Standard 1 of the Standards of Quality to express the belief of the General Assembly and the Board of Education that the quality of public education is dependent upon an appropriate learning environment within school facilities built and equipped to meet the Standards of Quality.
Title: H.B. 1493
Source: StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
A local school board representing a county may establish a salary increase prior to July 1 of any year in which members are to be elected or appointed, or, if such school board is elected or appointed for staggered terms, prior to July 1 of any year in which at least 40 percent of such members are to be elected or appointed. However, a school board serving a county having the county manager plan of government and whose membership totals five may establish a salary increase prior to July 1 in any year in which two of the five members are to be elected or appointed. Such increase shall become effective on January 1 of the following year. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0713
Title: H.B. 2437
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Directs school principals to implement a program of regular screening for scoliosis for pupils. Provides for parental notification.
Title: H.B. 1834
Source: StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to the general educational development examination; relates to the testing age for persons not enrolled in public school and not otherwise meeting compulsory attendance requirements; directs the board of education to develop a special high school diploma for passing the GED examination; increases the residency requirement.
Title: H.B. 1464
Source: StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows two or more school boards to establish joint or regional high schools to offer specialized training for careers in law enforcement, fire fighting, emergency and rescue services, and other occupations addressing public safety and welfare. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0165
Title: S.B. 1099
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires school boards to provide programs of prevention, intervention, and remediation for students failing an end-of-course test required for the award of a verified unit of credit needed by student for graduation; requires these students to participate in such prevention, intervention, and remediation; provides school divisions are to add these students to their existing remediation report requirements.
Title: H.B. 1757
Source: StateNet |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; relates to the comprehensive assessment and planning team referral; requires the council to review and approve a request by such team to establish a collaberative, multidisciplinary team process for referral and reviews of at-risk children and families.
Title: H.B. 1714
Source: StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires any local school board, in renegotiating a division superintendent contract to hold at least 1 public hearing prior to issuing final approval of such action.
Title: S.B. 756
Source: StateNet |
Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Increases the maximum years of retirement service credit that may be purchased by a school division superintendent for prior service for the Commonwealth or another state.
Title: H.B. 2122
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Authorization to transfer interest in patents and copyrights owned by institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 2285
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the State Council of Higher Education; provides for the council to review the proposed closure of any academic program in a high demand or critical shortage area by a public institution of higher education and to assist in the development of an orderly closure plan. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0715
Title: H.B. 2489
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Removes from the definition of senior citizens in the reference to the income restriction and restores senior's right to audit courses and take noncredit courses without change regardless of income.
Title: H.B. 1868
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Directs the governing body of each public institution of higher education to provide the State Council of Higher Education annual data indicating the apportionment and amounts of state general fund appropriations that the relevant institution expends by category, including academic costs, administration, research, and public service.
Title: H.B. 1704
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Directs the State Council of Higher education to appoint a student advisory committee comprised of students enrolled in public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Appointments must be made in a manner to ensure broad student representation from among the public institutions. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0710
Title: H.B. 2364
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a school board to approve a four-day school week under certain conditions, so long as a minimum of 990 hours of instructional time is provided for grades one through 12 and 540 hours for kindergarten. No alternative plan that reduces the instructional time in the core academics shall be approved. The Standards of Accreditation (SOA) (8 VAC 20-131-150) set the standard school year at 180 days, with the standard school day for students in grades one through 12 to "average at least 5-1/2 hours, excluding breaks for meals, and a minimum of three hours for kindergarten." The SOA permit school divisions to develop alternative schedules for meeting these requirements as long as a minimum of 990 hours of instructional time is provided for grades one through 12 and 540 hours for kindergarten. Such alternative plans must be approved by the local school board and by the Board of Education under guidelines established by it. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0724
Title: H.B. 2806
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Defines hazing; Revises the hazing law to authorize public educational institutions, or schools to sanction and discipline students found guilty of hazing or mistreating another student so as to cause bodily injury; provides for civil and criminal liability. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=031&typ=bil&val=hb1617
Title: H.B. 1617, S.B. 864
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Directs local school boards to require schools to conduct school safety audits annually, requires the audits to include specific recommendations, and provides that the results of such school safety audits shall be made public within 90 days of completion. However, the local school board retains authority to withhold or limit the release of any security plans and specific vulnerability assessment components, which are provided a qualified exemption from the Freedom of Information Act. The exemption from the FOI will not be construed to prohibit the disclosure of records relating to the effectiveness of security plans after a fire, explosion, natural disaster or other catastrophic event, or after any person has been injured or threatened with personal injury. Current law defines the school safety audit as a written assessment of the safety conditions in each public school that identifies and develops solutions for various physical and personal safety and security concerns. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0801
Title: H.B. 2621
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Modifies the Gun-Free Schools statute to add possession of an air rifle or BB gun on school property or at a school-sponsored activity to those firearm related offenses for which school boards are to expel students for 1 calender year, unless the school board determines that special circumstances exist and no disciplinary action, another disciplinary action or another term of expulsion is appropriate. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=031&typ=bil&val=hb1907
Title: H.B. 1907
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Rewrites provisions regarding the notification to a school division superintendent or school principal of criminal involvement of students; requires notification when the juvenile is found not guilty or the charges are dismissed, withdrawn or reduced. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=031&typ=bil&val=hb1572
Title: H.B. 1572
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies an exception for a person possessing an unloaded firearm on school property in a "closed container" by providing that the definition of "closed container" includes a locked vehicle trunk. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0619
Title: H.B. 2763
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies and revises the requirements for principals' reports to local law enforcement of incidents occurring on school buses, school property or at school-sponsored activities by (i) restructuring the clusters of incidents to separate assault and assault and battery without bodily injury from the more serious incidents involving assault and battery with bodily injury, sexual assault, death, shooting, stabbing, cutting, or wounding and (ii) eliminating the mandate that principals report all incidents involving assault and assault and battery to local law enforcement. The principal must still notify the parents of the students involved and the division superintendent and still has the discretion to report assaults and assaults and batteries without bodily injury to local law enforcement. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0954
Title: H.B. 2680
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides that Board of Education regulations addressing school buses shall include provisions for the display of decals depicting the flag of the United States on the sides and rear of school buses.
Title: S.B. 987
Source: StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Prohibits local school boards providing access and opportunity to use school facilities or to distribute literature from denying equal access or fair opportunity to use such school facilities or to distribute literature, or from otherwise discriminating against the Boy Scouts of America or the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
Title: H.B. 1518
Source: StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the division superintendent or his designee to assign another identifying number to students who are ineligible to obtain a federal social security number or the parent is unwilling to present such number or waive the requirement.
Title: H.B. 1716
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to Virginia Retirement System; relates to the continuation of retirement benefits for retired teachers who resume teaching.
Title: H.B. 2438
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to timelines for decisions and appeals of teacher grievances; clarifies that a school board has a specified amount of time to initiate another hearing after receipt of a fact-finding panel's decision, determine grievability after the following of a grievance, and transmit a notice of appeal of its decision on grievability to the clerk of the relevant court.
Title: H.B. 1790
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Bonds |
Approved by voters 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Approving general obligations bonds authorized by Chapters 827 and 859, Acts of the General Assembly of 2002 in the maximum amount of $900,488,645 according to Article X, Section 9(b) of the Constitution of Virginia for capital projects for educational facilities; relates to state-supported colleges, universities, museums and other educational facilities.
Title: Bond Issue, Question 1
Source: Virginia State Board of Elections |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Active 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Whenever any student has been the victim of any crime against the person pursuant to Chapter 4 (§ 18.2-30 et seq.) of Title 18.2, and such crime was committed by another student attending classes in the school, or by any employee of the school board, or by any volunteer, contract worker or other person who regularly performs services in the school, or if the crime was committed upon school property or on any school bus owned or operated by the school division, the student upon whom the crime was committed shall, upon written request from the student's parent, or the student, if such student is an emancipated minor, be permitted by the relevant school board to transfer to another comparable school within the school division, if available. Any transportation services for such students shall be provided in accordance with school board policies.
Title: VA Code § 22.1-3.3
Source: Virginia Statutes |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 09/2002 |
P-12 |
- Board approved criteria (7/25/02): (http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/nclb/boe/Supplmtl_srvcs_criteria.pdf)
- Supplemental Services RFP (initial proposal deadline 9/7/02): (http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/nclb/ssp_app.doc)
- Supplemental providers approved by Board on 9/26/02: (http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/suptsmemos/2002/adm064a.pdf)
Source: Virginia Department of Education Web site |
No Child Left Behind |
Active 05/2002 |
P-12 |
2002 Consolidated Plan (5/02); approved by US DOE: http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/nclb/application.pdf
Source: Virginia Department of Education Web site |
Business Involvement |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school boards to enter into agreements with private business and industry for the establishment, installation, renovation, remodeling, or construction of satellite classrooms for grades kindergarten through three on a site owned by the business or industry and leased to the school board at no cost. The local school board may adopt procedures for the enrollment of children of employees of the private industry who reside outside the attendance zone for such classrooms. Such procedures shall be designed to ensure compliance with all federal and state laws and regulations and constitutional provisions prohibiting discrimination that are applicable to public schools and with any court-ordered desegregation plan in effect for the school division. Agreements for such satellite classrooms, shall include, among other things, (i) a detailed description of the satellite site, the site development necessary for new construction, remodeling, or renovation for the accomplishment of the project, and any facility to be constructed; (ii) a plan for the reimbursement of the school division by the private industry or business upon premature termination of any such lease agreement; (iii) an enrollment plan, including grade levels to be served; and (iv) a description of any waivers to be requested from the Board of Education for the operation of such satellite classrooms. This bill also authorizes in the tax code the relevant local government, by ordinance, to provide an exemption, in whole or in part, from the licensure tax for private businesses and industries entering into these agreements. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0717
Title: H.B. 755
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that institutions of higher education may submit applications to form charter schools, requires all school boards to accept and review public charter school applications, to report the acceptance or denial of applications to the state board, and requires the inclusion of charter school students in the fall membership for purposes of calculating the state and local shares for the Standards of Quality. (The following link is to the version prior to governor's changes.) http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+SB625ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 625
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Demographics--Enrollments |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Directs the governing board of each public two or four year institutions of higher education to develop and implement a procedure for reporting withdrawals of students attending the relevant institution pursuant to a student visa granted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Title: H.B. 364
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes contingency reserves as a major classification of school funds.
Title: S.B. 604
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Makes the local governing body of a locality a tenant in common with the local school board in instances where the locality has incurred a multi- year financial obligation to fund the acquisition, construction or improvement of public school property. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0674
Title: S.B. 276
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for local school boards to award verified units of credit for a standard diploma for "transition" students: students entering the ninth grade in the 2000, 2001, and 2002 school years using criteria different from the current Standards of Accreditation diploma requirements. The guidelines address students in these classes who passed the relevant coursework and who meet such additional criteria as the Board shall establish for the award of such verified units, which may include, but shall not be limited to, performance on Standards of Learning assessments or other tests, including subsequent administrations of such assessments or tests; attendance and conduct requirements, and participation in remediation programs.
Title: S.B. 609
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+sum+SB609S |
P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that regulations for licensed child care centers adopted by the state board of social services or the child day-care council shall not require the membership, affiliation or accreditation services of any single accreditation or certification agency.
Title: H.B. 1208
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Directs the Research and Technology Advisory Commission to develop and adopt a statewide policy and uniform standard for the commercialization of intellectual property developed through university research.
Title: H.B. 530
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines a school resource officer as a trained certified law-enforcement officer hired by a local law-enforcement agency; provides law-enforcement and security services to Virginia public elementary and secondary school. A school security officer is an individual who is employed by the local school board for the singular purpose of maintaining order and discipline, preventing crime, investigating violations of school board policies, and detaining students violating the law or school board policies on school property or at school-sponsored events and who is responsible solely for ensuring the safety, security, and welfare of all students, faculty, staff, and visitors in the assigned school. The measure also directs the Department of Education and the Virginia State Crime Commission to establish compulsory minimum standards for employment and job-entry and in-service training curricula and certification requirements for school security officers; the training and certification will be administered by the Virginia Center for School Safety. The training standards must include, but not be limited to, the role and responsibility of school security officers, relevant state and federal laws, school and personal liability issues, security awareness in the school environment, mediation and conflict resolution, disaster and emergency response, and student behavioral dynamics. The Department of Education must establish an advisory committee consisting of local school board representatives, principals, superintendents, and school security personnel to assist in the development of these standards and certification requirements. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+SB295ER
Title: S.B. 295
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that the Board of Education defines critical teacher shortage areas, including teacher shortages in grade levels and disciplines identified by local school boards, the Board of Education's Regulations Governing the Determination of Critical Teacher Shortage Areas. Further, the bill clarifies that students enrolled in any area of an approved teacher education program who are seeking endorsements in elementary or middle school education and who meet the program's requirements are also eligible to receive such awards.
Title: H.B. 1346
Source: http://hod.state.va.us |
Accountability |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires, to ensure the integrity of the standards of quality, the Board of Education is to exercise its constitutional authority to determine and prescribe the standards, subject to revision only by the General Assembly, by (i) reviewing the standards and (ii) either proposing amendments to the standards or (iii) making a determination that no changes are necessary. In any odd-numbered year in which the Board proposes changes to the standards of quality, the budget estimates that are statutority required to be reported must take into consideration the Board's proposed standards of quality. Prior to 1984, the Board was required to revise the standards every two years in the odd-numbered year. With the codification of the standards in 1984, this requirement was removed. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0498
Title: S.B. 201
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Amends the Standards of Quality to require, within the Standards of Accreditation, guidance counselors in elementary schools at the following staffing levels: one hour per day per 100 students, one full-time at 500 students, and one hour per day additional time per 100 students or major fraction thereof. In addition, elementary schools may employ one full-time reading specialist.
Title: H.B. 1136
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to include, in its annual fall report on public education needs and schools failing to meet the Standards of Quality (SOQ), a complete listing of the current SOQ, justification for each standard, how long each standard has been in its current form, and whether the Board recommends any changes to the SOQ.
Title: H.B. 884, S.B. 350
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Modifies the current statute regarding suspension of driver's licenses for truancy to provide, upon a finding of a second or subsequent truancy offense, for the denial of a driver's license for a period of one year or until the juvenile reaches the age of 18, whichever is longer, or delay the child's ability to apply for a driver's license for a period of one year following the date he reaches the age 16 and 3 months.
Title: H.B. 160
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes the 17-member Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education in the legislative branch to recommend an integrated and coordinated multi-agency approach for the delivery of quality career and technical education programs and services in the public schools.
Title: H.B. 335
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0526 |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Community College |
Modifies the existing requirement within the Standards of Quality for local school boards to develop plans for career and technical education to provide for the input of area business and industry representatives and local community colleges in the plan's development. In addition, the plan must be submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and in accordance with the timelines established by Federal law. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+SB334ER
Title: S.B. 334
Source: http://hod.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Modifies the charter schools statutes by requiring the Board of Education to add the number of charters denied to its annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly and by clarifying that institutions of higher education may submit charter applications, and that the charter school and its governing body are entitled to immunity "to the same extent as a public school and its school board" and its employees and volunteers to such immunity "to the same extent as the employees and volunteers in a public school." http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+HB734H2
Title: H.B. 734
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds instruction in the benefits of adoption as the preferred choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy to the family life education curriculum guidelines. In addition, the measure clarifies that the Board of Education, in establishing requirements for appropriate training for teachers of family life education, is to include training in instructional elements to support the various curriculum components.
Title: H.B. 1206
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local school boards to establish a Banking-at-School Partnership Program, consisting of school banks or school credit unions on the premises of public schools within the school division that have been developed and are operated jointly by a public school and a financial institution licensed to conduct business in the Commonwealth. The Program will be designed to provide a multidisciplinary method to reinforce, augment, and support the objectives of the relevant Standards of Learning and career and technical education competencies through practical experiences that (i) allow students to apply mathematical concepts, communication and computer technology skills, and knowledge of economic principles; (ii) allow students to develop proficiency in basic life skills pertaining to money management, personal finance, banking, commerce and trade, and investments; (iii) facilitate financial literacy and an understanding of the American economic system, Virginia's economy, the global economic system, and the effect of personal finance decisions on the national and state economic systems; and (iv) permit students to explore entrepreneurships and career options in banking and finance. The Program will be funded solely by gifts, grants, donations, in-kind services, and bequests received by a public school from its licensed partner financial institution. The department is to develop guidelines for these programs in consultation with the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Financial Institutions, the Virginia Bankers Association, and the Virginia Credit Union League. Parental permission is required for student participation in these programs. Schools with high concentrations of at-risk and disadvantaged studented will be encouraged to participate in the Banking-at School Partnership Program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0774
Title: H.B. 966
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds organ and tissue donor awareness to the topics that must be included in instruction for driver education in public school classrooms; adds the Department of Health to those entities cooperating in the development of the curriculum.
Title: H.B. 686
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that the State Department of Education's standardized driver education instruction for public schools to include distracted driving.
Title: S.B. 597
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires community colleges maximize non-credit course offerings at a time and place that meet the needs of employers and at a cost not to exceed the incremental cost of each course, and to deal directly with employers in designing and offering courses to meet real, current and projected workforce training needs; provides community colleges shall report annually to the General Assembly on actions taken to meet these requirements.
Title: H.B. 1022
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits the State Lottery board to expend funds to inform the public that net proceeds from the Lottery are used entirely and solely for the purpose of public education; creates the Lottery Proceeds Fund as a special nonreverting fund to which the Comptroller deposits the audited balances of the State Lottery Fund, less a special reserve fund, to be used for public education.
Title: H.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Lottery Proceeds Fund that is authorized as of July 1, 2001, in Section 7-A of Article X of the Constitution of Virginia. The Fund will consist of the net revenues of any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth and will be appropriated to localities to use for public education purposes. The lottery revenues will be transferred to the Lottery Proceeds Fund in two parts, i.e., on or before June 30, the Comptroller will transfer the State Lottery Fund balances for the fiscal year, based on an estimate determined by the State Lottery Department and no later than 10 days after receipt of the annual audit report on the lottery, the Comptroller will transfer the remaining audited balances of the State Lottery Fund for the fiscal year. If an annual audit discloses that the actual revenue is less than the estimate on which the June 30 transfer was based, the State Comptroller will transfer the difference between the actual revenue and the estimate from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to the State Lottery Fund.
This bill is identical to HB 438 and incorporates SB 286. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+SB50ER
Title: S.B. 50
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that any elected school board may pay each of its members an annual salary that is consistent with the salary procedures and no more than the salary limits provided for local governments.
Title: H.B. 1141
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Makes the implementation of any superintendent resignation, retirement, or other financial package and contract negotiation or renegotiation by a school board whose members are elected in whole or in part and of which one or more member's term is to expire within three months of the board's vote on such action contingent upon approval of such package or contract negotiation by the newly constituted school board.
Title: H.B. 434, S.B. 439
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Prohibits smoking in the interior of any public elementary, intermediate, and secondary school; areas within 50 feet of any such building entrance or exit; and outdoor school functions on school grounds where students are present.
Title: H.B. 939
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board of education to provide that the requirements for the standard high school diploma must include at least two sequential electives chosen from a concentration of courses selected from a variety of options that may be planned to ensure the completion of a focused sequence of elective courses. Students may take such focused sequence of elective courses in consecutive years or any two years of high school. Such focused sequence of elective courses must provide a foundation for further education or training or preparation for employment and must be developed by the school division, consistent with state board guidelines and as approved by the local school board.
Title: H.B. 1277
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Board of Education to substitute industry certification and State licensure examinations for Standards of Learning assessments for the purpose of enhancing the quality of career and technical education and awarding verified units of credit for career and technical education courses, where appropriate.
Title: S.B. 477
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for local school boards to award verified units of credit for a standard diploma for transition students, students entering the ninth grade in the 2000, 2001 and 2002 school years using criteria different from the current Standards of Accreditation diploma requirements. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0577
Title: H.B. 493, S.B. 609
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the Virginia Center for School Safety, the Coordinator of Emergency Management, and the Board of Education to include, within the Model School Crisis and Emergency Management Plan for public schools, effective procedures and means by which parents can contact the relevant school or division regarding the location and safety of their schoolchildren and by which school officials may contact parents, with parental approval, during a critical event.
Title: H.B. 886, S.B. 230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec. |
Increases the income threshold for eligible senior citizens to enroll tuition free in classes conducted in state institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 218
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires community colleges to (i) offer non-credit courses at a time and place that meet the needs of employers and at a cost not to exceed the incremental cost of each course, and (ii) deal directly with employers in designing and offering courses to meet real, current and projected workforce training needs. The community colleges must report annually to the General Assembly on actions taken to meet these requirements. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0625
Title: S.B. 572
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec. |
Regulates private and out-of-state institutions of higher education.
Title: S.B. 627
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education, in making selections for basal textbooks for reading in kindergarten through third grade to establish a minimum decodability standard based on words that students can correctly read by properly attaching speech sounds to each letter to formulate the word at seventy percent or above for such textbooks. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0421
Title: H.B. 794
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
Religion |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires all school boards to post the statement, "In God We Trust, the national motto, enacted by Congress in 1956," prominently and in a conspicuous place, in each of their schools for all students to read. Governor's recommendations were to change language to "may" and preclude the use of private funds - use public funds only. Recommendations were rejected, however. Final language specifies that local boards have descretion to accept private funds to support. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0895
Title: H.B. 108, S.B. 608
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines a school resource officer as a trained, certified law-enforcement officer hired by a local law-enforcement agency to provide security services to Virginia public schools and a school security officer employed by the local school board to maintain order and discipline, prevent crime and who is responsible for the safety of all students, faculty, staff and visitors in the assigned school.
Title: H.B. 498, S.B. 295
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds theft or threatened theft of student prescription medications to those incidents required to be reported to school authorities, that, in turn, are to be reported to the division superintendent for annual reporting to the Department of Education; requires that these incidents are added to those events principals are required to report to law enforcement if constituting a criminal offense.
Title: H.B. 692
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds incidents involving acts of terrorism to those crises and events that must be addressed in the school crisis and emergency plan to be developed by each public school in the Commonwealth.
Title: H.B. 46
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that any person who commits battery against any employee of any public or private elementary or secondary school engaged in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor with mandatory, minimum sentence or, if a weapon is used, a mandatory, minimum sentence.
Title: H.B. 427
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to reimburse school divisions providing health-related services to special education students as participating providers in the Virginia Medicaid program for transportation services, on those days when the special education student is scheduled to receive health-related services at a site other than the school.
Title: S.B. 465
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires persons seeking initial licensure or license renewal as teachers on and after July 1, 2004, to complete study in child abuse recognition and intervention; provides that curriculum guidelines for this study are to be developed by the Board of Education in consultation with the Department of Social Services.
Title: S.B. 92
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Counseling to promulgate regulations establishing the requirements for evidence of continued competency as a condition of licensure renewal; authorizes the Board to approve persons who provide or accredit continuing education programs in order to accomplish this purpose and is required to promulgate emergency regulations.
Title: S.B. 53
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines the term accredited institution for the purposes of the law and the Board of Education's regulations on licensure of school personnel to mean an institution of higher education accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education.
Title: S.B. 236
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes the conditions under which retired teachers are permitted to return to teaching without interrupting their retirement benefits.
Title: H.B. 1137, H.B. 1320
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows any county with the County Manager Plan of Government to provide for the use of funds, other than State funds, to provide incentives for County and school board employees to purchase or rent residences, for use as the employee's principal residence, within the county.
Title: H.B. 1078
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the State Council of Higher Education to prepare and submit its plans and recommendations for implementing a coordinating system of higher education to the Governor and the General Assembly at least once every four years.
Title: H.B. 79
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies prohibiting certain school personnel from recommending the use of a psychotropic medications for any student; provides such policies shall not prohibit school health staff for making such recommendation or to consult with the appropriated health practitioner with the written consent of the student's parents.
Title: H.B. 90
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that school boards may operate comprehensive schools offering all-day academic programs and career and technical education as joint schools.
Title: H.B. 334
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies to prohibit the administration of questionnaires or surveys to public school students during the regular school day or at school-sponsored events without written, informed parental consent for the student's participation in such questionnaire or survey when participation may subsequently result in the sale of personal information regarding the individual student.
Title: H.B. 357
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Repeals sections of the code which deals with tuition and fees charged in-State undergraduate students.
Title: H.B. 11
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed by Governor 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds incidents involving acts of terrorism to those crises and events that must be addressed in the school crisis and emergency plan to be developed by each public school in the Commonwealth.
Title: H.B. 46
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Standards |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the Department of Education to develop a website enabling educators to suggest improvements to the Standards of Learning.
Title: H.B. 159
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Creates optional age-appropriate education programs for students in grades K-5 who require guidance, supervision and discipline in a structured learning environment and who need to be redirected toward appropriate classroom decorum and acceptable personal behavior. The programs shall provide instructional and support services that will enable students to maintain academic achievement, attain basic skills and academic proficiencies, and otherwise benefit from a public education during the time that they may be removed from the regular classroom. The programs shall also be designed to accommodate students within the school building to which they have been assigned, facilitate the efficient transition of students between the optional education program and their regular classroom, and provide for the continuity of instruction, a nurturing environment, necessary guidance and supervision, and the participation of the student's parents in correcting his behavior. Such programs shall be adequately staffed by licensed teachers or other persons with demonstrated qualifications to instruct and manage students with a range of academic gifts and deficiencies, disciplinary problems, and the need to develop and use appropriate social skills.
Title: S.B. 1144
Source: http://hod.state.va.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 |
School board salaries. Provides that any elected school board may pay each of its members an annual salary that is consistent with the salary procedures and no more than the salary limits provided for local governments in Article 1.1 (§ 15.2-1414.1 et seq.) of Chapter 14 of Title 15.2 or as provided by charter. The specific salary limits that are currently provided for most school boards in Virginia are eliminated for elected school boards; however, for appointed school boards the specific salary limits are retained. Title 15.2 sets specific salary caps for city councils and boards of supervisors by population brackets; town councils may set their own salary levels. This bill also provides that the annual amount a school board, whether elected or appointed, may pay its chairman will be increased from $1,100 to $2,000 and retains the restriction that no school board can be awarded a salary increase, unless a specific salary increase is approved by affirmative vote of that school board.
Title: H.B. 637
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
High School--Exit Exams |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to authorize, in its regulation for accrediting public schools, the substitution of industry certification and state licensure examinations for Standards of Learning assessments for the purpose of awarding verified units of credit for career and technical education courses.
Title: S.B. 1056
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education, prior to adopting or revising Standards of Learning resource guides, to conduct public hearings; states that prior to conducting any such hearings, the Board shall give written notice by mail of the date, time, and place of the hearings to all local school boards and any other persons requesting to be notified of the hearings; publishes notice of its intention to adopt or revise SOL resource guides in the Virginia Register of Regulations.
Title: H.B. 2777
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
House accepts governor's recommendations 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to school and institutional crisis and emergency management plans; requires public schools to institute tornado drills at least once a month during the months of March and April every school year to familiarize students with drill procedures to safeguard their health, safety, and welfare.
Title: S.B. 1022
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that if any person carries about his person a stun weapon or taser, a knife except a pocket knife with a folding blade under 3 inches, or a weapon of like kind, other than a firearm upon the property of any public, private or parochial school grounds or those used for extracurricular activities during such functions or on any school bus shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Title: H.B. 1624
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that retired persons who are members of the Virginia Retirement System may be hired as teachers without interrupting their retirement benefits.
Title: S.B. 954
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Modifies the definition of school board, for purposes of Title 22.1, to mean the governing body of a school division. "Governing body" or "local governing body" means the governing body board of supervisors of the a county, council of a city, or council of a town, responsible for appropriating funds for such locality, as the context may require.
Title: H.B. 2786
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Adjusts the definition of school board to note that such body governs a school division and revises the definition of governing body or local governing body in the education title to be like the definition in the local government title.
Title: H.B. 2786
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
SENATE accepts GOVERNOR'S recommended amendments 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education, in setting passing scores for the professional teacher's examination required for initial licensure, to establish an alternative for the Praxis I assessments, which test academic skills; states a passing score in a specialty area is also required for initial licensure.
Title: H.B. 2123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education, in setting passing scores for the professional teacher's examination required for initial licensure, to establish an alternative for the Praxis I assessments. Currently, applicants for initial licensure must pass the Praxis I: Academic Skills Assessments, which includes mathematics, reading, and writing tests, each of which has a specified passing score. In addition, a passing score in a specialty area is also required for initial licensure; the Praxis II tests fulfill this latter requirement, which is necessary for endorsement in a teaching specialty.
Title: H.B. 2123
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to teacher proficiency and contract status; states any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, will be required, as a condition of achieving continuing contract status, to have completed training in strategies and techniques for intervention for or remediation of students who fail or risk failing the Standards of Learning assessment; requires local divisions to offer training; states if a division fails to offer timely training, no teacher will be denied such contract status.
Title: S.B. 1304
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation pursuant to the Standards of Accreditation promulgated by the board of education shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admission and enrollment of a student graduating from such high school to a public institution of higher education in Virginia.
Title: S.B. 1324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Reorganizes the student discipline statutes and moves some sections to other articles of Title 22.1. Requires division superintendents, in making recommendations for expulsion for violations other than those involving weapons or drugs, to consider various factors such as the student's age, grade level, academic and attendance records, and disciplinary history, and the appropriateness and availability of an alternative education placement or program; allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for more than 30 days or expelled by another school division or for whom private school admission has been withdrawn regardless of the offense; allows school boards to permit students who have been expelled, excluded, are subject to a long-term suspension, or have been found guilty or not innocent of a crime which could have resulted in injury to others, to attend an alternative education program provided by teh school division.
Title: H.B. 2512
Source: http://hod.state.va.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to public school instruction regarding alcohol abuse and drunk driving; provides that instruction concerning the public safety hazards of alcohol abuse, underage drinking and drunk driving shall be provided in the public schools; provides that the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control must provide educational materials to the Department of Education; states that the Department of Education must review and distribute such materials as are approved to public schools.
Title: H.B. 1882
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Suspension of school employees. Provides that school employees who are placed on probation as first offenders for drug offenses are not entitled to any escrowed salary or reinstatement. Under current law, a school employee may be suspended for good and just cause when the safety or welfare of the school division or students is threatened or when the school employee has been charged with the commission of a felony or specified misdemeanors, including drug offenses, or with an equivalent offense in another state. During suspension, the school employee's salary is placed in escrow. Upon a finding of not guilty or nolle prosequi, the employee is reinstated and these escrowed funds are returned to the employee; a finding of guilt results in the funds being returned to the school board. This measure addresses cases of probation for first offender status where there is technically no finding of guilt nor is there an acquittal. This bill is identical to SB 1032 (Stolle).
Title: H.B. 1862
Source: http://senate.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Eliminates the now outdated requirement that a local school board must provide public notice by December 31, 2000, of its intent to accept or not to accept applications for public charter schools. The bill provides the school boards must, prior to receiving applications for any public charter school, provide public notice of its intent to accept or not to accept applications for public charter schools and may, upon providing such public notice, alter its decision to accept or not to accept such applications. This measure is identical to HB 2439.
Title: S.B. 1393, H.B. 2439
Source: http://senate.state.va.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to charter schools; clarifies that, prior to receiving applications for any public charter school, a local school board must provide public notice of its intent to accept or not to accept applications for public school charters and may, upon providing such notice, alter its decision to accept or not accept such applications; strikes the current and obsolete date for boards to indicate their intent to accept or reject charter school applications.
Title: H.B. 2439
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires all students to learn the Pledge of Allegiance and to demonstrate such knowledge and requires each school board to call for the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in each classroom of the school division and to ensure that an American flag is in place in each classroom.
Title: S.B. 1331
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Advantage Virginia Incentive Program; revises the programs focus which is to provide job training scholarships; changes the term occupational areas where there is a high demand for workers to qualified jobs, defined as jobs in high demand as designated by the Virginia Workforce Council; deletes requirement that qualified jobs must be in high unemployment areas; states students from high schools in high unemployment areas shall have preference in receiving said benefits.
Title: H.B. 2565
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
Postsec. |
Relates to immunizations for full time four year students prior to enrollment in public institutions of higher learning against meningococcal disease; provides for a waiver; states the State Council of Higher Education must, with the Board and Commissioner of Health, encourage private collages to develop procedures for providing information on the risks of such disease and the availability of vaccines against such disease; states religious exemptions on other immunizations shall apply.
Title: H.B. 2762
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires any school board that provides access to a high school's student body or other contact with its students during a school or school division-sponsored activity to persons or groups for occupational, professional or educational recruitment to provide equal access on the same basis to official recruiting representatives of the military forces.
Title: S.B. 1207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to internet access in public schools; directs every public school furnishing student access to the Internet to utilize the appropriate technology to ensure, to the extent technologically feasible, that students are not permitted access to child pornography, obscenity, and materials that are harmful to juveniles.
Title: H.B. 1691
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 03/2001 |
Postsec. |
Prior to January 1, 2002, the Governor made all 11 appointments to the State Council of Higher Education. Beginning January 1, 2002, the Governor will make six of the appointments and the Joint Rules Committee will make five. The initial appointments will be made as follows: two in year 2002, one in year 2003, and two in year 2004. After the initial term expires and every four years thereafter, the Joint Rules Committee will appoint a person to the Council from a list of recommended candidates from the Senate Committees on Finance, Education and Health, and the House Committees on Appropriations and Education. Written recommendations will be provided to the Joint Rules Committee at least ninety (90) days prior to the start of the term. Vacancies will be filled by the appointing authority for the unexpired term. All appointments made by the Governor must be approved by the General Assembly at their next regular session.
Title: S.B. 1408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Active 03/2001 |
P-12 |
For kindergarten through third grade. Provides for diagnosis of reading problems in the first school years and for intervention. University of Virginia developed the program, and models of instruction recommended for use in the classroom are based on current research documenting effective practices.
Source: Department of Education |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to child protective services and corporal punishment by school personnel; clarifies within the child abuse and neglect statute that teachers, principals or other persons employed by a school board or employed in a school operated by the Commonwealth are prohibited from subjecting a student to corporal punishment.
Title: H.B. 1866
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires each local school board to transmit one complete copy of all its schools' safety audits to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who must receive such safety audits and may review a random sample of some school safety audits.
Title: S.B. 1334
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Reorganizes student discipline statutes; defines disciplinary actions; requires superintendents in expulsion cases to consider factors like student age, grade, attendance, academic and disciplinary history and the feasibility of alternative education; requires expulsion confirmation by the board; excludes students denied private admission; provides for admissions re-petitioning; allows for alternative education programs; requires student reimbursement for unreturned school property.
Title: S.B. 1359
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to oral, written or electronic threats to commit acts of violence on school property; rewrites statute to provide that it is a Class 6 felony to knowingly communicate a written threat to kill or harm a person or a member of his family if the threat places the person in fear of death or injury to himself or his family; states a written threat to kill or do harm on school property or at a school event is a Class 6 felony, received or not; classifies like oral threats as Class 1 misdemeanor.
Title: H.B. 197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admission and enrollment of a student graduating from such high school to a public institution of higher education in Virginia.
Title: H.B. 2144
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to public school instruction regarding alcohol abuse and drunk driving; adds instruction in alcohol and alcohol abuse, the illegality of underage drinking, and the dangers of drunk driving to the instruction in drug abuse currently required to be provided in public schools.
Title: H.B. 1882
Source: http://senate.state.va.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that criminal histories obtained by school boards for those who are offered or accept permanent, temporary, full or part time school board employment, address all felony and misdemeanor convictions and equal offenses in other states; provides that reports of all arrests of such employees will now be reported to school boards and such employees must then submit to fingerprinting and a criminal history checks, also expanded to include felony and misdemeanor convictions.
Title: H.B. 1996
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local school boards to exchange information obtained from a criminal history records check of an applicant, if the applicant has requested and given permission in writing that another school board to which he has applied for employment may be informed of the results.
Title: H.B. 2588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Changes the name of vocational technical education to refer to career and technical education.
Title: S.B. 1055
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Permits individuals to designate that a specified amount of their income tax refunds, or additional amounts, be contributed to local school improvement projects.
Title: H.B. 2583
Source: http://senate.state.va.us |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Adds a physician assistant who is acting under the supervision of a licensed physician to the list of those practitioners who are qualified to perform a comprehensive physical exam of students prior to their entering kindergarten or elementary school.
Title: S.B. 1201
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Standard 4 of the Standards of Quality; Literacy Passports, diplomas, and certificates; class rankings. Authorizes each local school board to devise, vis-a-vis the award of diplomas to secondary school students, a mechanism for calculating class rankings that takes into consideration whether the student has taken a required class more than one time and has had any prior earned grade for such required class expunged.
Title: H.B. 2401
Source: http://senate.state.va.us |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to a standard diploma; restores language in the Standards of Quality that was unintentionally deleted by legislation reorganizing in the 2000 Session; provides that the requirements for a standard diploma shall include at least two sequential electives.
Title: H.B. 2674
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to internet access in public schools; directs every public school furnishing student access to the Internet to utilize the appropriate technology to ensure, to the extent technologically feasible, that students are not permitted access to child pornography, obscenity, and materials that are harmful to juveniles.
Title: H.B. 1691
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to publication of procedure for changing special education placements. Directs the Board of Education to publicize and disseminate, to parents of students who are enrolled in special education programs or for whom a special education placement has been recommended, information regarding current federal law and regulation addressing procedures and rights related to the placement and withdrawal of children in special education. Pursuant to a second enactment, the Superintendent of Public Instruction must apprise local school boards of the provisions of this act by Superintendent's Administrative Memorandum no later than 30 days after its enactment.
Title: H.B. 1226
Source: http://senate.state.va.us |
Privatization |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
States that commercial, promotional and corporate partnerships and sponsorships relating to public schools; requires each school board to develop and implement and authorizes them to revise, from time to time, a policy relating to commercial, promotional, and corporate partnerships and sponsorships involving public schools in the division; notes that commercial activities have increased significantly in schools during the past decade; states that most school officials and parents agree that corporate and business involvement in education is desirable and that the contributions of business and industry have made many activities into reality that would not otherwise have been possible; states that some ethical questions have, however, arisen concerning apparel companies and others and their influence on the lifestyles and choices of young people; states that incidents in other states require clarification of the rules on such activities; requires Virginia school boards to develop policies on these issues designed to meet their local needs, circumstances, and standards.
Title: H.B. 2395
Source: http://senate.state.va.us |
Privatization |
To governor 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Allows any local governing body, school district or public institution of higher education to enter into energy performance-based contracts to significantly reduce energy and operating costs of a facility.
Title: H.B. 1967
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Religion |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to authorize, as an elective in grades 9 through 12 with appropriate credits toward graduation, a comparative religion class that focuses on the basic tenets, history, and religious observances and rites of world religions in the 21st Century.
Title: S.B. 1391
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to exclusion from public school attendance; allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for over 30 days or expelled by another school division or for whom private school admission has been withdrawn regardless of why the disciplinary action was imposed, upon a finding that the student presents a danger to the students or staff of the school division and upon compliance with a hearing process; provides for readmission procedures.
Title: H.B. 1706
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the discharge of firearms in schools; provides that the hunting exemption and the exemption for an established shooting range do not apply to the willful discharge of a firearm upon the buildings and grounds of a school; provides that there is no established shooting range exemption for discharge of a firearm within 1,000 feet of the property line of a school.
Title: H.B. 247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires schools to submit their school safety audits to their school division superintendent; states that division superintendent is to collate and submit these school safety audits to the Virginia Center for School Safety.
Title: H.B. 1587
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to Criminal Justice Services; pertains to school resource officers; provides that the Board may disburse to localities annually up to five percent of the School Resource Officer Grants Fund for the training of the school resource officers.
Title: H.B. 1652
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction may disclose to school officials that a juvenile is a suspect in or has been charged with a violent juvenile felony, a crime involving arson or bombs, a crime involving drugs or drug paraphernalia or a crime involving weapons.
Title: H.B. 2841
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Allows any local governing body, school district or public institution of higher education to enter into energy performance-based contracts to significantly reduce energy and operating costs of a facility.
Title: H.B. 1967
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to passing a stopped school bus; provides that for the purpose of being reckless driving or having a civil penalty imposed, the testimony of the school bus driver, the supervisor of school buses or a law-enforcement officer that the vehicle was yellow, conspicuously marked as a school bus, and equipped with warning devices is prima facie evidence that the vehicle is a school bus.
Title: S.B. 905
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Standards |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education, prior to adopting or revising Standards of Learning resource guides and lists of recommended textbooks in any Standards of Learning academic subject, to conduct public hearings; states that prior to conducting any such hearings, the Board shall give written notice by mail of the date, time, and place of the hearings to all local school boards and any other persons requesting to be notified of the hearings, including parents; publishes notice of its intention to adopt or revise SOL resource guides in the Virginia Register of Regulations. In addition, in order to provide appropriate opportunity for input from the general public, parents and teachers in each locality, local school boards shall solicit public comment prior to adoption or purchase of any Standards of Learning resource guides and textbooks in any Standards of Learning academic subject. Thirty days prior to adoption or purchase, the local school board shall make the teacher resource guides and textbooks available for review and comment by parents and teachers and other members of the public. Interested parents, teachers and other members of the public shall be given reasonable opportunity to be heard and to present information prior to final adoption or purchase by a local school board.
Title: H.B. 2777
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Teacher proficiency; continuing contract status. Provides that any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, will be required, as a condition of achieving continuing contract status, to have successfully completed training in instructional strategies and techniques for intervention for or remediation of students who fail or are at risk of failing the Standards of Learning assessments. Local school divisions will be required to provide the training at no cost to teachers employed in their division. In the event a local school division fails to offer the training in a timely manner, no teacher will be denied continuing contract status for failure to obtain such training. This bill is identical to SB 1304.
Title: H.B. 2514
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that the monthly retirement allowance payable to any teacher who has at least 25 years of creditable service as a teacher and is at least 65 years old, or at least 30 years of creditable service as a teacher, shall not be less than $ 800.
Title: S.B. 945
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Moves and amends the Teacher Scholarship Loan Program; requires Board of Education and State Council of Higher Education to notify parents, students, teachers, guidance counselors, academic advisors and financial aid administrators at institutions concerning the Program, eligibility criteria for loans, and terms and conditions under which loans are awarded in order that students seeking careers in the teaching profession may be informed of the availability of financial aid.
Title: H.B. 2589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires Superintendent of Public Instruction to survey local school divisions to identify critical shortages of teachers by area, school division or subject; states retired members of the retirement system may be hired as teachers or administration without interrupting their benefits if their allowance is based on licensed instructor or administrator service, they have received benefits for a minimum time, did not utilize early retirement incentives and are filling critical shortages.
Title: H.B. 1589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to Virginia Retirement System retirees hired as teachers; requires Superintendant of Public Instruction to annually survey school divisions for shortages of teachers by area, division or subject; states system members may be hired as teachers or administrators without interrupting benefits if they retired from service as an administrator or teacher, have received such allowance for a minimum required time, did not use early retirement incentives and are filling a critical shortage.
Title: H.B. 252
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Directs any school board in a county having the urban county executive form of government to notify by May 15 those teachers who may be subject to a reduction in force due to a decrease in the school board's budget.
Title: H.B. 1983
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that funds provided for educational technology may be used for career and technical education and vocational programs as well as academic programs.
Title: S.B. 1057
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Board of Education to provide multiple assessments; includes on-line computer tests, field tests, and evaluation of student progress during and after remediation.
Title: H.B. 1484
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school boards the option of administering end-of-course tests for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics.
Title: H.B. 1020
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the creation of regional charter schools, operated by two or more school boards, which may be chartered directly by the participating school boards or by the Board of Education with the concurrence of the participating school boards; permits judicial review of a school board's denial of a charter application, revocation or denial of renewal of a charter; clarifies operation guidelines and requirements.
Title: S.B. 411
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Western Virginia Public Education Consortium, governed by a board consisting of the region's school superintendents; requires the Consortium to coordinate with entities providing programs and services to Consortium school divisions to reduce duplication of efforts in the areas of vocational education workforce development and other linkages between public schools, institutions of higher education and business and industry.
Title: H.B. 1009
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that those school board employees and persons appointed to position of trust by school boards designated by an adopted policy of the school board are to file disclosure statements.
Title: H.B. 636
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Became law without governor's signature 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires proof of testing for elevated blood lead levels in the comprehensive physical examination required for first time admission to public kindergarten or elementary school, for welfare recipients' children, and for child day centers.
Title: S.B. 725
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides an exception from the Drug Control Act for persons who administer drugs to students in Virginia public schools in accordance with a physician's instructions pertaining to dosage, frequency, and manner of administration and with written authorization of a parent, and in accordance with school board regulations relating to training, security, and record keeping.
Title: H.B. 1391
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that the juvenile and domestic relations court, upon finding that a parent has willfully and unreasonably failed to accompany a suspended student to meet with school officials to discuss improving the student's behavior, or upon the student's receiving a second suspension or being expelled, to order not only the student or his parent, but both, to participate in such programs or treatment as the court deems appropriate to improve the student's behavior.
Title: H.B. 1147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Transfers the administrative responsibility for the Economic and Employment Improvement Program for Disadvantaged Persons from the Governor's Employment and Training Department to the State Board for Community Colleges; broadens the statutory provisions of the program to extend educational and job training services to persons who are eligible to participate in vocational education and job skills training programs under State and Federal welfare reform laws.
Title: H.B. 1383
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Religion |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires school boards to establish daily moments of silence for meditation, prayer or other silent activity in every classroom in the public schools of Virginia. No other activities may be allowed during this time. The Office of the Attorney General must provide legal counsel for the defense of this law.
Title: S.B. 209
Source: Virginia Session Highlights: http://dls.state.va.us/pubs/hilights/2000 |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Virginia Gifted Education Consortium; extends the expiration of the provisions of the act to 01/01/03; relates to the recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Educational Needs of Certain Underserved Gifted Students.
Title: S.B. 654
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to Gifted Education Pilot Program; extends the expiration date on the provisions of the act to July 1, 2003.
Title: H.B. 1406
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
State Policymaking--Politics |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires, no later than 8/1/2001, local school boards to develop and implement policies to ensure that public school students are not required to convey or deliver any materials that advocate the election or defeat or any candidate for elective office, advocate that passage or defeat of any referendum question, or advocate the passage or defeat of any matter pending before a local school board, local governing body or the General Assembly or Congress.
Title: H.B. 1541
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Became law without governor's signature 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Innovative Remedial Education Pilot Program; changes the date for which the first awards must be made to approved pilot programs to 01/01/2001; and makes technical changes.
Title: H.B. 1355
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for the state Retirement System, rather than the school boards, to develop the policies and procedures to administer the optional retirement plan which may be offered for certain employees of public school divisions, and to determine the contribution by the school boards to such retirement plan; provides that school boards which previously elected to provide an alternative retirement plan may elect to have the foregoing provisions apply to such plan.
Title: H.B. 79
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Community College |
Changes the Diversity in Teaching Program to the Diversity in Teaching Initiative Awards and makes the award program a component of the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program; focuses on at-risk and disadvantaged students, paraprofessionals, and students transferring from the community colleges and private 2-year institutions to approved teacher education programs.
Title: S.B. 652
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires Board of Education to establish requirements to facilitate acceleration of students who are qualified under standard of learning assessment to sit for relevant test and to obtain credit, including verified credit upon achieving a passing score.
Title: H.B. 1196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to schedule the administration of Standards of Learning assessments to be graded by computerized or other automated means to occur no earlier than 2 weeks before the end of the relevant course.
Title: S.B. 318
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to make publicly available the Standards of Learning assessments in a timely manner and as soon as practicable following the administration of these tests, so long as this release does not compromise test security or deplete the bank of assessment questions necessary to construct subsequent tests.
Title: H.B. 1019
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that regional pilot projects for alternative education are designed for elementary as well as middle and high school students; directs the Department of Education to issue a request for proposals for regional pilot projects for selected alternative education options for elementary school students.
Title: H.B. 188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that a student who has been granted an Alternative Education Plan and fails to comply with the condition of the plan shall be in violation of attendance laws; authorizes the Division Superintendent or Attendance Officer of the school division in which such student was last enrolled seek the students immediate compliance.
Title: H.B. 1468
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits local school boards to require as a condition for re-enrollment or continued enrollment in public school, that students who have been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of drug-related offenses submit to drug testing; provides that Board of Education regulations will govern such initiatives that may be adopted by local school boards.
Title: H.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes law-enforcement officers to report suspected violations of the Drug Control Act that occurred on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity by students to school principals.
Title: H.B. 1361
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the juvenile and domestic relations court to order the denial of driving privileges for at least 30 days to any child at least 13 years of age upon a finding that the child has failed to comply with certain school attendance and parent-school conference meeting requirements.
Title: H.B. 490
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Social Services to respond to requests by local school board in cases where there is no match within the central registry of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect regarding applicants for employment within 10 business days of receipt of such requests.
Title: H.B. 865
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs all school boards to require, as a condition of employment, fingerprinting for applicants who are offered or who accept school board employment, whether on a temporary, permanent, or part- or full-time basis; requires the submission of the fingerprints and descriptive information through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to obtain the applicant's national criminal records history.
Title: H.B. 1238
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the creation of regional charter schools, operated by 2 or more school boards, which may be chartered directly by the participating school boards or by the Board of Education with the concurrence of the participating school boards; allows the Board to establish procedures for receiving and reviewing applications, seeking public comment, and obtaining the concurrence of participating school boards for regional schools to be chartered by the Board.
Title: H.B. 785
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes establishment of special tax districts within counties containing town operating a school district; provides for calculation and distribution of revenues; provides for make up of arbitration panel to settle disputes.
Title: S.B. 483
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the issuance of special license plates with a design incorporating an apple, representing teachers and education; designates an additional fee of $ 25 to be paid to the State Treasury and distributed to the Department of Education to purchase textbooks for use in public schools.
Title: S.B. 413
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; provides for the Governor to appoint two elected or appointed local officials of which one shall be a member of a local governing body and one shall be a chief administrative officer of a local governing body.
Title: S.B. 611
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Requires the Board of Visitors of each four-year state institution of higher education to appoint one or more nonvoting student representatives to the board.
Title: S.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Allows school principals, after certain conditions have been satisfied, to permit students who have a diagnosis of asthma and approval from a parent and appropriate medical professionals to possess and self-administer inhaled asthma medications.
Title: H.B. 1010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the board of education to establish the requirements for a third diploma option, i.e., an advanced mathematics and technology diploma; provides that the diploma will be a 24-credit diploma, with 9 required verified credits (course and standards of learning test satisfactorily completed), as follows: four credits in English, two of which shall be verified credits and one of which shall be in technical writing/reading/communication skills.
Title: S.B. 706
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that the guidelines for the at-risk four-year-old preschool program may be differentiated according to the agency delivering the services in order to comply with various federal or state requirements; requires (i) one teacher for any class of ten students or less, (ii) if the average daily membership in any class exceeds 10 students but does not exceed 20 students, a full-time teacher's aide must be assigned to the class, and (iii) the maximum class size must be 20 students.
Title: S.B. 170
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Conforms current law to the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by directing schools to annually notify parents of students currently enrolled and in attendance of their rights under FERPA and related regulations.
Title: H.B. 536
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Advantage Incentive Foundation, the Advantage Incentive Fund, and the Advantage Incentive Program; provides that the Foundation is to establish and administer the Fund, and moneys of the Fund are to be used for awarding scholarships pursuant to the Program; provides that the Program is to be administered by the Workforce Council; provides scholarships to students attending an institution of higher education that are institutionally accredited.
Title: H.B. 1528
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Requires board of visitors of each 4 year state institution of higher education to appoint on or more nonvoting student representatives to the board.
Title: H.B. 821
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Extended School Year Incentive Program and Fund, from such funds as may be appropriated, to be administered by the Board of Education, for incentive grants for public school divisions for the operation of schools beyond the 180-day school year required by the Standards of Accreditation;establishes procedures for calculating amounts for incentive grants to school divisions.
Title: S.B. 545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that possession of weapons on school bus stops is grounds for expulsion from school attendance and constitutes a crime; clarifies that school property includes real property and vehicles owned or leased by a school or operated on behalf of a school.
Title: H.B. 464
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs school boards to adopt regulations governing student searches; requires regulations be consistent with relevant state and federal law.
Title: H.B. 1445
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Virginia Center for School Safety within the Department of Criminal Justice Services; provides that the Center will, among other things, provide training for public school personnel in school safety and the effective identification of students who may be at-risk for violent behavior and in need of special services or assistance.
Title: H.B. 391
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that anyone convicted of an "offense prohibiting proximity to children" is forever prohibited from loitering within 100 feet of a primary, secondary or high school; provides crimes qualifying as an offense prohibiting proximity to children.
Title: S.B. 197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs local school boards to provide, within their respective standards for student conduct, for the suspension and expulsion of students for the use of profane or obscene language.
Title: H.B. 815
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Adds conduct involving firebombs, explosive materials or devices, hoax explosive devices, chemical bombs, or other incendiary devices on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity to those incidents to be reported to school principals or their designees; requires principal or his designee to report all such incidents to the division superintendent, who must relay an annual report of these incidents to the Department.
Title: H.B. 254
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that the offenses of a simple assault and assault and battery do not include the use of, by any teacher, principal or other person employed by a school board or employed in a school, incidental, minor or reasonable physical contact or other actions designed to maintain order and control, or reasonable and necessary force under a few given circumstances; relates to the provision that precludes the use of corporal punishment in public schools.
Title: H.B. 1229
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to ensure that elementary school teachers in their employment have at least 3 hours during the students' school week for planning time.
Title: H.B. 1517
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Amends the statute authorizing schools boards to permit the use of school property, under such conditions as will not impair the efficiency of the schools, to allows the school boards to authorize the division superintendent to permit the use of the school property, including buildings, grounds, vehicles, and other property.
Title: H.B. 1212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that teacher staffing ratios for regional or local detention homes will be based on a ratio of one teacher for every twelve beds based on the capacity of the facility, however, if the previous year's average daily attendance exceeds this bed capacity, the ratio will be based on the average daily attendance at the facility as calculated by the Department of Education from the previous year.
Title: H.B. 53
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Standards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that the Standards of Learning in all subject areas shall be subject to review and revision every five years, beginning no later than 7/1/2000, to maintain rigor and to reflect a balance between content knowledge and the application of knowledge.
Title: H.B. 633
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Standards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Revises Standards of Quality to make educational technology squarely within the scope of the Standards of Quality; requires the Board of Education to include proficiency in the use of computers and related technology in the Standards of Learning.
Title: H.B. 203
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Standards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that, by 10/01/2000, the Board of Education shall establish a regular schedule for review and revision as may be necessary of the Standards of Learning in all subject areas; provides that such review and revision shall occur at least once every 7 years.
Title: S.B. 606
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Vetoed 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Amends the Standards of Quality to require, within the Standards of Accreditation, guidance counselors in elementary schools at the following staffing levels: one hour per day per 100 students, one full-time at 500 students, one hour per day additional time per 100 students or major fraction thereof.
Title: H.B. 245
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that educational remediation programs shall be evaluated on the basis of the pass rate on the Standards of Learning assessments; requires that the Board of Education promulgate regulations establishing standards for remediation programs.
Title: H.B. 975
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Re-arranges paragraphs of the Standards of Quality pertaining to remediation programs and requirements in order to provide consistency, clarity, and readability; clarifies that any student who does not pass literacy tests or any of the Standards of Learning assessments in grades 3, 5, or 8 must be required to attend a summer school program or to participate in another form of remediation and that any student who passes one or more, but not all, may attend a remediation program.
Title: H.B. 1353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs school boards to adopt regulations governing student searches; requires regulations be consistent with relevant state and federal law.
Title: H.B. 1445
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires school board employees administering tests or other assessment instrument to disclose to the public school students being tested that such students are not required to respond to any inquiry regarding their race or ethnicity on any such test or instrument, and that they may respond to any such inquiry by indicating other.
Title: S.B. 224
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes a mechanism for local school boards to issue three-year local teacher licenses.
Title: S.B. 113
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Board of Education to suspend or revoke the teaching or administrative license of any person who knowingly and willfully commits specified acts regarding secure mandatory tests administered to students required by the Code of Virginia or by the Board of Education.
Title: H.B. 867
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to provide for licensure by reciprocity for individuals holding a valid out-of-state license and national certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; requires evidence of such valid licensure and national certification; does not require official student transcripts.
Title: S.B. 289
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the Board of Education to provide for licensure by reciprocity for individuals holding a valid out-of-state teaching license and national certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Title: H.B. 473
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the Board of Education to bring a cause of action for injunctive relief or civil penalty, or both, against any person who knowingly and willfully commits specified acts regarding secure mandatory tests administered to students required by the specified code or by the Board of Education; provides for civil penalties of specified amounts; suspends or revokes license of persons who knowingly commit specific acts.
Title: S.B. 548
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Amends the teacher grievance procedure to require that members of the three-person fact-finding panel have no prior involvement with the matter grieved; requires panel members to refrain from obtaining any information or evidence about the grievance other than that which is presented at the hearing before the fact-finding panel.
Title: H.B. 650
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Equitable Access |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits school divisions to donate obsolete hardware and software to be replaced pursuant to the technology replacement program to indigent public school students as provided in guidelines to be promulgated by the Board of Education; requires the guidelines to include criteria for determining student eligibility and need; a reporting system for the compilation of information concerning the characteristics of recipient students; and notification of parents.
Title: H.B. 805
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that the Board of Education recognizes, for purposes of facilitating the transfer of academic credits for students who have attended private schools and are now enrolling in public schools and to satisfy the accreditation requirement for an exemption from licensure for certain child day programs, those private nursery, preschool, elementary, and secondary schools accredited by an organization approved by the Virginia Council for Private Education.
Title: H.B. 987
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Provisions of in-service training in the effective use of educational technology for adult education and literacy program professionals. The training is to be delivered at institutes established by the State Council of Higher Education for providing in-service training in educational technology for public school teachers, administrators, and librarians.
Title: H.B. 936
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Education to include, in the requirement for verified credits for the standard and advanced studies diplomas, a provision that allows students completing elective classes into which the Standards of Learning for any required course have been integrated to take the relevant Standards of Learning assessment for the relevant required course and receive, upon achieving a satisfactory score on the specific SOL test.
Title: H.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to public school enrollment of homeless pupils; revises various statutes addressing evidence of residence in the school division for public school enrollment; adds persons lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and having a primary residence located within a school division, to those persons deemed to reside in a school division.
Title: S.B. 147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-risk Youth and Families, under the lead of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; assumes the responsibilities of the State Management Team to develop programs and fiscal policies that promote and support cooperation and collaboration in the provision of services at the State and local levels to troubled and at-risk youth and their families.
Title: H.B. 1510
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires juveniles found delinquent and adults found guilty for a first drug offense be subject to periodic substance abuse testing, drug treatment and education; mandates six months extra time on a felony sentence if the mandatory drug assessment indicates a substance abuse problem. Another portion of the bill revises the penalty for violation of the "drug-free school zone" law (possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school or designated school bus stop) to include a one-year minimum, mandatory term of incarceration for a second or subsequent conviction for an offense involving a Schedule I, II or III drug or more than one-half ounce of marijuana.
Title: S.B. 153
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Revises the provision authorizing school boards to admit nonresident students and charge such students tuition, to provide that persons of school age who reside beyond the boundaries of the Commonwealth but near thereto in a state or the District of Columbia which grants the same privileges to residents of the Commonwealth may be admitted and so charged.
Title: S.B. 499
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires applicants who are offered or who accept permanent or temporary, part-time or full-time employment with the school board to submit to fingerprinting and a criminal history record check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Title: H.B. 1097
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits the creation of residential charter schools for at-risk students by a single school division or by two or more school divisions as a joint school; provides that applications for residential charter schools are to include a description of the residential program, facilities, and staffing, any parental education and after-care initiatives, and funding sources for the residential and other services provided.
Title: H.B. 742
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to history requirement in middle and high school; amends the requirement for study of documents of Virginia history and the United States Constitution to require emphasis on the relationship between the various documents and Virginia history and to state the purpose of this study as being to increase knowledge of citizens' rights and responsibilities.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Multicultural |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Amends the Standards of Quality to require that the Board of Education supplement the Standards of Learning for Social Studies to ensure the study of contributions to society of diverse people; defines diverse as including consideration of disability, ethnicity, race and gender.
Title: S.B. 487
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for a referendum at the November 7, 2000, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the new revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth; requires proceeds from the Fund will be distributed to counties, cities, and towns to be expended for public education purposes.
Title: H.B. 749
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for a referendum at the election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth; provides that proceeds from the fund will be distributed to counties, cities, and towns to be expended for public education purposes; provides that localities accepting a distribution from the fund must fund its portion of the cost.
Title: S.B. 546
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Allows licensed nurse practitioner acting under the supervision of a licensed physician to provide a report of a comprehensive physical examination within the 12 months prior to the date the pupil first enters such public kindergarten or elementary school.
Title: S.B. 437
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to college tuition savings initiatives; changes the name of the Virginia Higher Education Tuition Trust Fund to the Virginia College Savings Plan, removes contributors to a savings trust account within the Plan who are age 70 and over from the requirement that deductions for such contributions not exceed a specified amount.
Title: S.B. 359
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Changes the name of the Higher Education Tuition Trust Fund to the College Savings Plan; removes contributors to a savings trust account within the Plan who are over a specified age from requirement that deductions for such contributions not exceed a specified amount; broadens the definitions of the fiduciary adjustment to include the state income tax deduction permitted for purchases of prepaid tuition contracts and contributions to savings trust accounts within the plan.
Title: H.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Clarifies role of school resource officers; allows officer in only to perform law enforcement duties when situation requires it.
Title: S.B. 589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs school divisions to notify by May 15 those teachers who may be subject to a reduction in force due to a decrease in the school board's budget as approved by the appropriating body.
Title: H.B. 605
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Revises the provisions of the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program; allows support through gifts, donations, grants, bequests and other funds; provides for teacher training scholarships to address teacher shortages; provides scholarships for paraprofessional training; encourages teacher diversity; promotes teaching careers for at-risk students.
Title: S.B. 630
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Virginia scholarship for teachers program and fund to provide incentive awards to students enrolled in approved teacher education programs at a 4-year institution of higher education in the Commonwealth.
Title: H.B. 1408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the institutes established by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia currently providing in-service training in the effective use of educational technology for teachers, administrators, and librarians in the elementary and secondary schools to provide the same training to such personnel of equivalent adult education and literacy programs.
Title: S.B. 460
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |