| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
|
 Career/Technical Education |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Occupational Training for High School Students
H.B. 1858
Requires the Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2014, a waiver form for use by any entity providing a career and technical occupation...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 02/2013 |
P-12 | High School to Work Partnerships
S.B. 1248
Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for the establishment of High School to Work Partnerships between public high schools a...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
Signed into law 02/2013 |
P-12 | Multi-District Charter School Applications
S.B. 1131
Provides that charter school applications that are initiated by one or more local school boards are not subject to review by the Board of Ed...
| More... |
Finance--District |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Assignment of District Staff
H.B. 2066/S.B. 1172
Permits districts that employ a sufficient number of librarians, guidance counselors, and school-based clerical personnel to meet the staffi...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Local School Board Salaries
H.B. 1735
Provides that salary increases for local school boards representing a city or town are not operable until members are re-appointed or reelec...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Local Boards; releases from state regulation
H.B. 2098/S.B. 1189
Requires any school board that has requested a release from certain state regulations to provide a description of how the release from the s...
| More... |
Health--Mental Health |
Signed into law 02/2013 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Mental Health Referral
H.B. 2322/S.B. 1078
Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop a mental health referral policy that would require community colleges to designat...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
Signed into law 02/2013 |
P-12 | Notice of Principal/Asst. Principal Reassignment
H.B. 1388/S.B. 936
Changes the deadline for a school board to notify principals, assistant principals, or supervisors under continuing contract of their reassi...
| More... |
Middle School |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | P-3 Literacy & Middle Grades Math Interventions
S.B. 1171
Requires local school divisions to provide early intervention services to preschool to grade three students who demonstrate deficiencies bas...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
To governor 02/2013 |
Postsec. | Preservation of Postsecondary Student Data
H.B. 2088
Provides that in the event of a postsecondary school closure, the school shall transfer the academic and financial records of its students t...
| More... |
School Safety |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Criminal Incident Reports
H.B. 1864
Clarifies that a local law enforcement agency is not required to file delinquency charges and that a school and a local law-enforcement agen...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Bullying Policies
H.B. 1871
Defines the term "bullying." Requires school boards to include in their codes of student conduct policies and procedures that include a proh...
| More... |
Student Supports--Remediation |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Math Remediation for Middle Grades Students
H.B. 1350
Requires local school divisions to provide targeted mathematics remediation and intervention to students in grades six through eight who sho...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | CPR Training
H.B. 2028/S.B. 986
Allows school boards to require current certification or training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and the use o...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 02/2013 |
P-12 | Provisional Licensure for Teach for America Teachers
S.B. 1175
Creates a two-year provisional licenses for Teach for America (TFA) teachers. The Board of Education may extend each TFA license for one add...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Teacher Performance Pay
H.B. 2083/S.B. 1185
Establishes the Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative and Fund. Provides that local school divisions may submit proposals to Board of Educ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Confidentiality of Teacher Evaluation Data
H.B. 1889
Requires performance indicators, or other data used by the local school board to judge the growth or quality of a teacher, to be kept confid...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | Teacher Evaluation
S.B. 1167
Requires the Department of Education to develop student growth indicators by October 1, 2014, to be used in the accreditation of schools and...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
To governor 02/2013 |
P-12 | School personnel evaluation policies and grievance procedures.
S.B. 1223
Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and to the grievance procedure process. Re...
| More... |
Attendance |
Vetoed 05/2012 |
P-12 | Public Schools; Residency of Children in Kinship Care
S.B. 217
Allows a child receiving kinship care from a close relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bi...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Educational Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits
H.B. 321
Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for corporations donating cash or property to nonprofit organizations providing educatio...
| More... |
Civic Education--Character Education |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Character Education Program
H.B. 1179
Provides that a school board, either within its existing programs or as a separate program, may provide its character education program duri...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Dual Enrollment for High School Students
H.B. 1184
Requires local school boards and community colleges to develop agreements allowing high school students to complete an associate's degree or...
| More... |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Graduation Requirements; Standard and Advanced Studies Diplomas
H.B. 1061
Directs the Board of Education to modify the credits necessary for a student to earn a standard or an advanced studies diploma. The advanced...
| More... |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 | Third Grade Reading Intervention
H.B. 1181
Public schools; reading intervention. Requires local school divisions to provide reading intervention services to students in grade three wh...
| More... |
Attendance--Truancy |
Vetoed 04/2012 |
P-12 | Regulations to Address Truancy
H.B. 886
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2013, to address truancy. In promulgating these regulations, the Board ...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Charter Schools; Denial or Revocation of Application
H.B. 1173/S.B. 440
Provides unsuccessful charter school applicants with an opportunity to testify before the Board of Education. The local school board must su...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Open Enrollment Policies
H.B. 603
Provides that local school divisions may have policies that provide for the open enrollment to any school of any student residing within the...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Education Improvement Scholarships
S.B. 131
Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2013 for individuals, business entities, and corporations making monetary donations to nonpro...
| More... |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Eliminating State Mandates on Local and Regional Government Entities Relating to Education
H.B. 1295/S.B. 679
Eliminates several statewide mandates on local and regional government entities relating to education and land use. The bill does the follow...
| More... |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Vetoed 04/2012 |
P-12 | Physical Education Requirements
S.B. 471
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations governing physical education requirements in public schools. The Board shall prom...
| More... |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Physical Education Regulations
H.B. 1092
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations governing physical education requirements in public schools. The Board shall promu...
| More... |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Open Education Curriculum Board; Alters Function from a Policy Board to an Advisory Board
S.B. 45
Alters the function of the Open Education Curriculum Board from a policy board to an advisory board. In its new role, the Open Education Cur...
| More... |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Governor's Reorganization of Executive Branch of State Government
H.B. 1291
Reorganizes the executive branch of state government and certain local transportation entities including:
Eliminates the Child Day-Care Co...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Possession and Administration of Epinephrine
H.B. 1107/S.B. 656
Requires local school boards to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every school. The schoo...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Child Abuse and Neglect; Mandatory Reporting, Penalties
S.B. 239
Adds individuals associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children and any pe...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Child Abuse and Neglect; Mandatory Reporting
H.B. 970
Adds any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education to the list of individuals required to report suspected abus...
| More... |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Home Instruction of Children; Limits Required Description of Curriculum
H.B. 1208
Requires that the description of the curriculum, which a parent electing to provide home instruction to his child in lieu of school attendan...
| More... |
Minority/Diversity Issues |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Publishing Disciplinary Offense and Outcome Data
H.B. 367
Requires the Board of Education to annually publish disciplinary offense and outcome data by race, ethnicity, gender, and disability for eac...
| More... |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Requires Postsecondary Institutions to Publish Employment Rates for Graduates
H.B. 639
Requires public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education to publish data on the proportion of graduates with employment at 18 ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Educational Institutions; Establishes Policies Related to Student Nonpayment
H.B. 703
Provides that the board of visitors of every public institution of higher education shall establish policies requiring the registrar to plac...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2012
H.B. 54
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 C...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Pupil Transportation; Insurance Requirements
H.B. 93
Increases the minimum amount of vehicle liability insurance required to be carried by public schools in the instances of property damage, me...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Behavioral Management for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
H.B. 325
Requires each school board to ensure that aides assigned to work with a teacher who has primary oversight of students with autism spectrum d...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Disability Commission; Establishes an Education and Employment Work Group
H.B. 79
Provides that the Virginia Disability Commission establish work groups to assist the Commission in carrying out its powers and duties. Such ...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. | Military Training; Accept as Equivalent to Requirements for Licensures
H.B. 938
Except for the Board of Medicine and the Board of Dentistry, requires the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupa...
| More... |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Accreditation of Schools; Delayed Implementation of Certain Statutes and Regulations
H.B. 96
Extends the delay of the implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based tha...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | School Records; Self-authentication
H.B. 424
Provides that school records may be admissible in any matter where such records are material, provided that they are authenticated as true a...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 | Standardized Parental Consent Form for the Release of Student Data
H.B. 1189
Allows local school boards to develop a single, standardized form to obtain parental consent for the release of student data. If developed b...
| More... |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | High School Accreditation; Industry Certifications
H.B. 642/S.B. 514
Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations adjusting the formula for calculating the final high school accreditation status to add...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Career and Technical Education Industry Certifications
H.B. 1108
Delays for one year the effective date of legislation providing that, where there is a national industry certification for career and techni...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Expenditures and Reports on Instructional Spending
H.B. 250
Requires each local school board to report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of its annual operating budget allocated to ins...
| More... |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Establishes an Innovation Technical Advisory Committee
H.B. 756
The Department of Education may establish an Innovation Technical Advisory Group, comprised of individuals with experience in the establishm...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Public Schools; Immunization Requirements
H.B. 1089
Allows a 180-day conditional enrollment period for students who need more than two doses of the required hepatitis B vaccine, to allow for p...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | List of Persons Required to Report Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect
H.B. 3
Adds athletic coaches, directors, employees, and volunteers of private sports organizations and teams and administrators, employees, and vol...
| More... |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Virtual Schools Accreditation Standards
H.B. 1215
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations establishing standards for accreditation of public virtual schools that enroll stu...
| More... |
Partnerships--University/School |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | College Partnership Laboratory Schools; Allowed to Operate Jointly with Local School Boards
H.B. 765
Allows a private institution of higher education that operates a teacher education program approved by the Board of Education to operate a c...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Educational Institutions; Indemnification Agreements
H.B. 764
Provides that no Virginia public institution of higher education shall be authorized to enter into an indemnification agreement to indemnify...
| More... |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Teachers of Online Courses and College Partnership Laboratory Schools; Background Checks
H.B. 577
Clarifies that teachers of online courses and in college partnership laboratory schools shall, as a condition of employment requiring direct...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Education; Course Credit for Military Experience
H.B. 195
Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education, in accordance with guidelines developed by the State Council o...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Education; Scheduling Active Duty Military
H.B. 548
Requires public institutions of higher education, in accordance with guidelines developed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virgi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | General Studies Credits Transferable to Four-year Public Institution
H.B. 441
Clarifies that credits earned in academic subject area coursework as part of the Uniform Certificate of General Studies shall be transferabl...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Campus Police; Mutual Aid Agreements with Local Law-enforcement Agencies and State Police
S.B. 302
Requires campus police to enter into mutual aid agreements with a local law-enforcement agency or the State Police for cooperation in provid...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Disclosure of Health and Criminal History Records to Private Nonprofit Institutions of Higher Education
H.B. 1152
Authorizes threat assessment teams established by private nonprofit institutions of higher education to receive health and criminal history ...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Antibullying Training and Information Dissemination
S.B. 271
Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety to provide training on antibullying tactics to public school personnel and serve as a resourc...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Assistive Technology Devices; Transfer of by School Division
H.B. 382
Provides that a school division may transfer assistive technology devices purchased by the division for a child with a disability to a diffe...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Student Records; Mental Health
S.B. 375
Clarifies that an institution of higher education may require that any accepted student provide a complete student record, including any men...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. | Higher Educational Institutions; Mental Health and Parental Notification Policies
H.B. 900/S.B. 374
Higher education; mental health and parental notification policies. Provides that any person licensed to diagnose and treat mental, emotiona...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Develops Licensure Criteria for Teachers who Teach Only Online Courses
H.B. 578
Requires the Board of Education to develop licensure criteria for teachers who teach only online courses. The bill also provides that teache...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 | Teachers; Date Changes for Contract Renewal for Those Without Continuing Contract Status
S.B. 278/H.B. 76
Shifts the date of effective contract renewal for those teachers without continuing contract status from April 15 to June 15. This bill is i...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
Postsec. | Institutions of Higher Education; Crisis and Emergency Management Plans
H.B. 305/S.B. 356
Increases the Department of Emergency Management's oversight of institutional crisis and emergency management plans by requiring institution...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
P-12 | Public School Enrollment; Military Children
H.B. 640/S.B. 190
Clarifies language relating to enrollment of students pursuant to a special power of attorney to correspond to language in the Interstate Co...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec. | Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund
S.B. 1485/H.B. 2324
Expands the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund to allow for awards from the fund to be used to encourage commercialization and to ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec. | In-State Eligibility for Military Spouse
H.B. 1848/S.B. 1279
Ensures that the established in-state tuition eligibility must not be affected by the establishment and maintenance of a place of residence ...
| More... |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Alternative Accreditation
H.B. 2494
Provides that any school board, on behalf of one or more of its schools, may request from the Board of Education releases from state regulat...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | VIP Incentive Program
H.B. 2172/S.B. 953
Requires the Board of Education to take into account in its guidelines for the Virginia Index of Performance program a school division's inc...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Secure Mandatory Testing: Exclusion of Students
H.B. 2077
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)...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
H.B. 1976
Adds a fifth citizen member to the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and specifies...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Standards of Quality
H.B. 1792/S.B. 1270
Codifies in the Standards of Quality the flexibility to use funds provided in the appropriation act and provided to local school divisions f...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Industry Certifications
H.B. 1493
Provides that where there is a national industry certification for career and technical education instructional personnel or programs for au...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Commission on Civics Education
S.B. 1054
Clarifies that the Commission on Civics Education will continue until July 1, 2012, if the Commission is funded by a separate appropriation ...
| More... |
Curriculum--Sex Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Family Life Education
S.B. 906
Provides that any family life education curriculum offered by a local school division shall require the Standards of Learning objectives rel...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011
H.B. 2510/S.B. 1459
Establishes the Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011 for the purpose of fueling strong economic growth in the Commonwealth and ...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Unfunded Programs
H.B. 1885
Deletes references to educational programs that have not been funded and do not exist and updates language in other sections to conform to c...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002
S.B. 1127
Provides that whenever a responsible public entity rejects a proposal initiated by a private entity that purports to develop specific cost s...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Health Requirements for Students
H.B. 2291
Allows licensed nurse practitioners, in addition to physicians, registered nurses or local health department employees, to immunize public s...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Cambridge Advanced (A/AS) Exams
H.B. 1910/S.B. 1448
Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies regarding the granting of credit for Camb...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Diploma Seals
H.B. 1793
Allows local school boards to award diploma seals for all Board of Education-approved diplomas. Requirements for the standard technical, adv...
| More... |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | IB and AP Course Credit
S.B. 1077
Clarifies that students should be eligible for credit for International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement examinations, not the courses.
...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Electronic Records and Signatures
H.B. 2243
Authorizes local school boards to adopt and implement policies pursuant to which electronic records and electronic signatures may be accepte...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec. | In-State Tuition for National Guard
S.B. 1074
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 ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec. | In-State Tuition for Veterans
H.B. 1861/S.B. 824
Authorizes certain veterans who elect to establish Virginia as their permanent residence for domiciliary purposes to establish immediate res...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Virginia College Savings Plan
H.B. 1619/S.B. 1362
Clarifies the roles of the two advisory committees to the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan and requires the Board to post the annu...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Tuition Assistance Grant Program
S.B. 1439/H.B. 1960
Amends the criteria for institutions of higher education to be eligible to receive tuition assistance on behalf of eligible students. For an...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | "Good Cause" Waiver from post-Labor Day Opening
H.B. 1483
Adds to the ''good cause" circumstances for which school divisions may be granted a waiver from the post-Labor Day school opening schedule a...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Sex Offenses Prohibiting Entry Onto School or Other Property
H.B. 2066
Expands the prohibition on entry onto school grounds by any adult convicted of a sexually violent offense to include any school bus and any ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Video-monitoring Systems
H.B. 1911/S.B. 946
Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances to allow local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in...
| More... |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
P-12 | Delayed Implementation of Certain Statutes and Regulations
H.B. 1554/S.B. 810
Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based tha...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
P-12 | Youth Health Risk Survey
S.B. 1094
Requires the Department of Health to develop and administer a random survey of students in public middle and high schools to facilitate plan...
| More... |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
P-12 | American Sign Language
H.B. 1435
Provides that if a local school board offers an elective course in American Sign Language, it must grant academic credit for course completi...
| More... |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Vetoed 02/2011 |
P-12 | Physical Education Requirement
S.B. 966/H.B. 1644
Requires at least 150 minutes of physical education per week on average during the regular school year for grades K through eight, with a si...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 02/2011 |
Postsec. | Military Reinstatement Guidelines
H.B. 1647
Updates language requiring the State Council of Higher Education to issue and update military reinstatement guidelines to allow reinstatemen...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Issued 02/2011 |
P-12 | Efficacy of Year-Round Schools
H.J.R. 646
Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficacy of year-round schools, specifically reviewing: (i) the Board...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Issued 02/2011 |
P-12 | Effectiveness of Antibullying Policies
H.J.R. 625
Requests the Department of Education to study the nature and effectiveness of local school divisions' antibullying policies. In conducting i...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | College Partnership Laboratory Schools
S.B. 736/H.B. 1389
Establishes college partnership laboratory schools by any public institution of higher education that operates an approved teacher education...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Employment Programs for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
H.B. 1099
Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Rehabilitative Services and ...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Purchase of Electronic Textbooks
H.B. 97
Requires contracts and purchase orders with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board of Education for use in grades 6 - 12 to allow for...
| More... |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Delaying Implementation of Certain Statutes
H.B. 111/S.B. 352
Relates to delayed implementation of certain statutes and regulations upon which accreditation is based, with the exception of the graduatio...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Workplace Readiness Skills
S.B. 630
Requires each local school board to include in its annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who passed the state Workp...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Parental Notification of Nonattendance
S.B. 196
Clarifies that, in addition to the attendance officer, school personnel, and volunteers, the school principal or his designee is responsible...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Religious Holidays
S.B. 361
Requires local school boards to develop policies ensuring that any student's absence because of the observance of a religious holiday be rec...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Vocational Program Definition
H.B. 703/S.B. 598
Clarifies that the definition of vocational shall not include instructional programs intended solely for recreation, enjoyment, personal int...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Proposed Charter Applications
S.B. 737/H.B. 1390
Requires the public charter school applicant to submit its proposed charter application to the Board of Education for review, comment, and a...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Civics Education
S.B. 715
Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to require all education preparation programs for teachers in history and social s...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Issued 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Establishing the Governor's Advisory Board on Volunteerism and National Service
E.O. 20
Establishes Governor's Advisory Board on Volunteerism and National Service. The Board will comply with the provisions of the National and Co...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Open Education Curriculum Board
S.B. 241
Establishes the Open Education Curriculum Board. Provides that the board may offer financial incentives to encourage individuals to submit e...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Authorizing Firearm Safety Programs
H.B. 1217
Allows local school boards to offer firearm safety education programs in the elementary grades; requires that program objectives incorporate...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec. | Workforce Development Authority
H.B. 1304
Creates the Virginia Workforce Development Authority to take over the duties of the Statewide Area Health Education Centers Program.
http://...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Workforce Program Evaluation
S.B. 459
Relates to workforce program evaluations and the sharing of certain data. Provides for certain agencies to share de-identified data to creat...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 03/2010 |
Postsec. | Establishing the Governor's Commission on Higher Education Reform, Innovation and Investment
E.O. 9
Establishes the Governor's Commission on Higher Education Reform, Innovation and Investment. Directs the commission to consider the current ...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Change in Sales Tax Disbursal
H.B. 669/S.B. 413
Eliminates the requirement that every three years a census of all school-age persons residing within each school division take place; elimin...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Nutritional Guidelines
S.B. 414
Requires the Board of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Health, to promulgate and periodically update regulations setting nut...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Undergraduate Credits for International Baccalaureate
S.B. 209
Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies to grant a minimum of 24 undergraduate se...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Waiver of Certain Graduation Requirements
H.B. 1199
Directs the state board to provide for the waiver of certain high school graduation requirements (i) upon the Board's initiative or (ii) at ...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Limited English Assessments
S.B. 354
Provides that local school divisions must administer a locally developed or selected limited English proficiency assessment mandated for stu...
| More... |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Virtual Schools
S.B. 738/H.B. 1388
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the Board of Education to approve, criteria for approving and monitoring m...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Institutional Crisis and Emergency Management Plan
S.B. 608
Requires the president and vice-president of each public institution of higher education, or the superintendent in the case of the Virginia ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Brown V. Board of Education Scholarship Program
H.B. 1227
Provides that scholarships awarded through the Brown V. Board of Education Scholarship Program may be used to cover the costs of professiona...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Uniform Certificate of General Studies
H.B. 1066
Requires the development of a uniform certificate of general studies program by the State Council of Higher Education, in consultation with ...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Waiving Post Labor Day Start Requirement
H.B. 557/S.B.253
Provides that a requirement that the school calendar begin after Labor Day may be waived by the Board of Education, provided the school boar...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Sex Offenders on School Grounds
H.B. 227
Provides that a sex offender who has received a court order allowing entry on school or child day center property must also obtain permissio...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Gang-Free School Zones
H.B. 682
Expands current gang-free school zones to the broader gang-free zones; includes any school bus stop or the property, including buildings and...
| More... |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Threat Assessment Teams
H.B. 903/S.B. 207
Exempts all records of threat assessment teams established at public institutions of higher education from the provisions of the Freedom of ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Alcohol Consumption While Transporting Children
H.B. 1353
Provides that any person who possesses or consumes an alcoholic beverage while operating a school bus while transporting children is guilty ...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Recovery of Attorney Fees
S.B. 46
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 c...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Notification Requirements
H.B. 107
Relates to adult students under the jurisdiction of the juvenile and domestic relations district courts. Clarifies that notification is to b...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
S.B. 299
Requires the Department of Education to employ a military family education liaison to provide staff support for the state Council on the Int...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 | Dealing with Concussions
S.B. 652
Requires the Board of Education to develop and distribute to local school divisions guidelines for policies dealing with concussions in stud...
| More... |
Accountability |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Reporting on Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment
H.B. 566
Requires each local school board to include in its annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who passed Virginia's Work...
| More... |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Recognizing and Reqwarding Significant Progress
S.B. 145/H.B. 1172
Codifies a current recognition program for schools and local school divisions that recognizes and rewards fully accredited schools and schoo...
| More... |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Audit of Use of Alternative Assessment
H.B. 304
Requires the Board of Education to conduct an audit of any school division that utilizes the Virginia Grade Level Alternative assessment ins...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Economics Education and Financial Literacy
H.B. 196
Repeals the requirement for economics education and financial literacy instruction in middle and high schools.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-b...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Duties of State Council of Higher Education
H.B. 7
Relates to State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; provides that when performing its duty to develop a uniform, comprehensive data i...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Vaccination Plans
H.B. 270
Requires the Department of Health develop, with input from the localities, a plan for the prompt vaccination of all children who attend a pu...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Sequential Elective Requirements
H.B. 394/S.B.629
Ensures that the sequential elective requirement for the standard diploma supports the student-selected career pathway required by the Acade...
| More... |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Homebound Instructional Services
H.B. 257
Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations establishing Standards for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia as they relate to...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | School Start Date
S.B. 253/H.B. 557
Relates to opening of the school year; provides that the requirement that the school calendar begin after Labor Day may be waived by the Boa...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Crisis and Emergency Management Plan
H.B. 1238
Requires the members of the threat assessment team, and the president and vice-president of each public institution of higher education, or ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Reporting Requirements
H.B. 208
Relates to local school divisions; reduces certain reporting requirements of local schools.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Temporarily Employed Teachers
H.B. 623
Provides that local school boards may employ temporarily employed teachers, with the approval of the Board of Education, for periods longer ...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 | Option of Electronic Textbooks
H.B. 709
Requires contracts and purchase orders with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board of Education for use in grades 6-12 to allow for t...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 | Membership of the Commission on Civics Education
S.B. 1453
Adds one nonlegislative citizen member, who must be a student that has successfully completed the civics curriculum in his school division, ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Financial Aid Eligibility
S.B. 1547
Relates to eligibility for state financial aid programs; provides that persons who have completed a qualified program of home school instruc...
| More... |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Delay of Accreditation Implementation
H.B. 2166
Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes, regulations and standards upon which the accreditation of schools or school divisions i...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Alternative Education for Students Charged with an Offense
H.B. 2341
Provides that pending the decision by the division superintendent as to whether to require that a student charged with an offense involving ...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Education on the Holocaust and Genocide
H.B. 2409
Requires the Board of Education to establish objectives for Holocaust education with an emphasis on the causes and ramifications of the Holo...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Driver Safety Course
H.B. 1782
Requires that minor applicants for a driver's license show they have successfully completed, with a parent or guardian, an in-person 90-minu...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | School Budget Reporting
S.B. 1285
Requires local governing bodies and local school divisions to publish the estimated required local match in the publication of the annual sc...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Grievance Procedures
H.B. 2089
Provides additional direction to school boards in establishing and administering a grievance procedure to resolve disputes arising between t...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Students Called to Active Military Duty
H.B. 1810
Provides that in certain circumstances a student called to active military duty during a course at an institution of higher education may st...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Grants for Tuition and Fees for Certain Individuals
S.B. 1049
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 inst...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Pilot Grants for Open Education Resources
S.B. 1173
Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, in consultation with the Department of Education and the State Council of Higher Education,...
| More... |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Assistance in Event of an Emergency
S.B. 1150
Requires all school emergency plans to include a provision that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the State Criminal Injuries ...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Certification of Individuals Providing Braille Instruction
H.B. 2224
Requires the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired, together with the Department of Education, to promulgate regulations for the cert...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Due Process Hearing
H.B. 2304
Provides that any party aggrieved by a decision made in a due process hearing provided to children with disabilities and their parents or gu...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Board of Visitors of the State School for the Deaf and the Blind
H.B. 2353
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 Dea...
| More... |
Students |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
H.B. 1727
Establishes a compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deplo...
| More... |
Students |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Class Placement of Twins or Higher Order Multiples
H.B. 2070
Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies to allow a parent of twins or higher order multiples to request that the chil...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | School Records in Custody Cases
H.B. 2406
Expands the types of school records that may be admissible in cases involving custody of the student or termination of parental rights to al...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Teacher Planning Time
H.B. 2474
Requires school boards to ensure that all elementary school teachers are provided an average of 30 minutes a day of planning time.
http://le...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 | Provision of Workforce Housing
H.B. 2132
Provides that local school boards, in cooperation with the local governing body, may pursue housing options for its employees including the ...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Industry Certification and State Licensure Examinations
H.B. 2517
Directs the Board of Education in prescribing Standards of Learning assessments to also provide the option of industry certification and sta...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Students At-Risk for Long-Term Suspension
H.B. 1945
Provides that a school division may assign a student deemed at-risk for a long-term suspension to a regional alternative education program; ...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Sufficient Cause for Suspension
H.B. 1794
Provides that the sufficient cause necessary to suspend a student cannot rest solely on instances of tardiness or truancy.
http://leg1.state...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Suspension of Driver's License Due to Truancy
H.B. 1826
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 schoo...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Reasonable Steps to Determine Subjects of a Case of Child Abuse
H.B. 1679
Clarifies that a local school board must take reasonable steps to determine whether an applicant, who has resided in another state within th...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | State- Approved Limited English Proficiency Assessment
H.B. 2589
Provides that local school divisions shall not be required to administer the ACCESS test as the state- approved limited English proficiency ...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Sunset of Certain Charter School Statutes
H.B. 1844
Allows certain amendments to the charter school statutes to sunset as provided in Chapter 530 of the Acts of Assembly of 2004 and retains ot...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Value and Benefits of Marriage
S.B. 827
Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life educati...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Benefits of Marriage
H.B. 1746
Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life educati...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Dissemination of Information on Family Life Education
H.B. 1980
Requires school divisions to include a detailed statement in the summary already required by law to be issued to parents and guardians to as...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Annual Report of Expenditures
H.B. 2269
Requires the annual report of expenditures provided by the school board to the appropriate governing body to also be made available to the p...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation
H.B. 2456
Changes the name of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth and allows for moneys from the V...
| More... |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Instruction in Financial Literacy
H.B. 2112
Provides that local school boards must require the completion of 12 classroom hours of instruction in financial literacy as a condition for ...
| More... |
Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Establishment of a Single-Sex Class
H.B. 1942
Clarifies the manner in which school boards may establish a single-sex class, program, or school in a school division; provides that partici...
| More... |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Transferabilyt of Virtual State Credits
H.B. 2619
Requires local school boards to make provisions to require the acceptance of virtual state credits earned by a student while attending anoth...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program
H.B. 1893
Provides that scholarships awarded through the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program may be used to cover the costs of required ac...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Tuition Assistance for National Guard Members
H.B. 2342
Provides that notwithstanding the eligibility requirement that a member of the National Guard have a minimum of two years remaining on his s...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Student Advisory Committee Membership
H.B. 1663
Permits the State Council of Higher Education to appoint students enrolled in private, accredited and nonprofit institutions of higher educa...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Virginia College Savings Plan
H.B. 2549
Provides for the exclusion of certain financial records of the Virginia College Savings Plan from the Freedom of Information Act, the author...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Tuition and Fees For Foster and Special Needs Adoption Students
H.B. 1599
Relates to grant program for certain foster care and special needs adoption students; modifies the eligibility of the current program to all...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Open Education Resources
H.B. 1940
Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, in consultation with the Virginia Department of Education and the State Council of Higher E...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Emergency Planning
H.B. 1664
Eliminates the requirement that the State Council of Higher Education must develop and revise, as it deems necessary, a model institutional ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Reporting of Violent Acts
H.B. 2513
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 ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Codes of Student Conduct
H.B. 1624
Relates to Board of Education model policies for codes of student conduct; provides for the inclusion of electronic bullying, harassment, an...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Defining Parent for Special Education
H.B. 2537
Defines parent for the purposes of special education identification, evaluation, and placement of a child and the provision of a free approp...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 02/2009 |
P-12 | Fees for Damaged or Lost Textbooks
H.B. 1923
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...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 05/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Workforce Development Officer
Executive Order 61
(Executive Order 2008-61) Relates to the Chief Workforce Development Officer Coordination of Workforce Development and Accountability, Cross...
| More... |
Religion |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 | Religious Viewpoints
H.B. 1135
From fiscal impact statement: Provides that a student's voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint in homework, artwork or other written ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Community College | Workforce Development Coordination
H.B. 731
Adds the Chancellor of the Community College System to the Board of the Authority to help better coordinate workforce development in the sta...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | Potential Withdrawal from NCLB
H.B. 1425, S.B. 490
Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Chi...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 | Exclusion of Persons Convicted of Sexually Violent Offenses
H.B. 567
Provides that every adult who is convicted of a sexually violent offense is prohibited from entering and being present upon any property he ...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Publishing of Approved Budgets
S.B. 376
Requires local school divisions to publish their annual budget on the local school division website. If there is no local school division we...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Employee Backgrounds
H.B. 1242
Prohibits the employment of an applicant for employment requiring direct contact with students if such applicant is the subject of a founded...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Career Readiness Certification Program
H.B. 1526
From fiscal impact statement: HB 1526 creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certification Program to certify the workplace and college readi...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Expansion of Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program
S.B. 169
Expands the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to include those teacher candidates pursuing an endorsement in career and technical e...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Industry Certification
S.B. 326
Requires the Board of Education to develop a plan for increasing the number of students receiving industry certification and state licensure...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Physical Fitness
H.B. 242
Requires local school boards to incorporate into their local wellness policy as a goal a minimum of an average of 150 minutes of physical fi...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Community College | Workforce Development to Coordinate with Community College
H.B. 1312
Provides that the strategic plan for workforce development shall be developed in coordination with the development of the comprehensive econ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Career Readiness Certificate Program
S.B. 756
Creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certificate Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to b...
| More... |
Equity |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Access to Public Places for Persons With Disabilities
H.B. 214
Adds public entities, including schools, to the list of public places in which persons with disabilities are entitled to the same full and f...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Publishing School Budgets
H.B. 140
Requires local governing bodies and local school boards to annually publish their approved budgets online. If there is no local government w...
| More... |
Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Textbook Purchases
H.B. 137, S.B. 356
Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbo...
| More... |
Governance |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | State Board Supervision
H.B. 241
Requires the Board of Education to supervise the provision of education and training to school aged children who are patients at the childre...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Administration of Prescription Medication
S.B. 271
Relates to administration of prescription drugs; allows a person employed in a school for students with disabilities to administer prescript...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Mental Health Awareness
S.B. 640
Adds mental health education and awareness to the list of topics that shall be covered in family life education curricula.
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Best Practices: Nutrition and Physical Education
H.B. 246
Requires the Board of Education to develop a database of local school divisions' best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, ...
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High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Documentation of Enrollment or Other Status
H.B. 259
Requires a local school division to obtain written or electronic documentation, to the extent practicable, before making any status classifi...
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High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Advanced Technical Diploma/Advanced Studies Diploma
H.B. 97
A technical diploma is required to meet or exceed the requirements of a standard diploma and must include a concentration in career and tech...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Home Instruction
H.B. 767
Eliminates (i) the requirement that correspondence courses must be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in order to qualify ...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Evidence of Progress Options: Homeschooling
H.B. 1183
Provides for two additional options for parents to provide evidence of progress of the child receiving home instruction including: (i) an ev...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Fraudulent Academic Credentials
H.B. 766
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...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Awards Cannot Exceed Annual Costs
H.B. 1529
Clarifies that the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee may reduce the scholarship award to any student to ensure that, ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Disclosure of Lending Practices
S.B. 510
Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), with the advice and input of the governing boards of each public institu...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Authority to Offer Afterschool Programs
S.B. 44
Allows local school boards to establish after school programs designed to prevent at risk youth from engaging in illegal or gang related act...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Prevention of Violence on Campus
S.B. 539
Requires each public college or university to have in place policies and procedures for the prevention of violence on campus, including asse...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Parental Notice of Mental Health Treatment
H.B. 1005
Amends and reenacts § 23-9.2:3, relating to providing notice to parents of dependent student's receipt of mental health treatment on the cam...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Safety/Emergency Management -- HIgher Education
H.B. 1449
This bill requires that the following three actions be taken by each of the Commonwealth's public higher education institutions:
• The boar...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Crisis and Emergency Plan
S.B. 256
Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of each public higher education institution to develop, adopt, and keep current a wri...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | First Warning System
S.B. 538
Mandates that by January 1, 2009, each public institution of higher education establish a comprehensive, prompt, and reliable first warning ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Mental Health Records
S.B. 636
Allows each public and private institution of higher education to request from its students complete student records, including any mental h...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | No Bus Drivers Under Age 18
H.B. 1160
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 commercia...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | No Wireless Communications Devices for Bus Drivers
H.B. 1218
Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies or when the vehicle is lawfull...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | No Wireless Telecommunications While Operating A Bus
S.B. 136
Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies, or when the vehicle is lawful...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
Postsec. | Students' Educational Records
H.B. 1058
Requires the Board of Visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education in Virginia to establish policies and...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Provisional Licenses for Deployed Teachers
H.B. 809
Permits the Board of Education to extend a three- year provisional license an additional year for each school year or portion thereof for wh...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Sexual Abuse Allegations
S.B. 241
Requires State Board of Education regulations to include requirements for the denial, suspension, cancellation, revocation, and reinstatemen...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 | Textbook Purchasing
H.B. 354
Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbo...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Career and Technical Teacher Recruitment
H.B. 506
Relates to the Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to increase the number of candidates pursuing careers in career and technical education.
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 | Waivers from New Regulations
H.B. 771
Provides that any joint, or regional charter school in operation prior to July 1, 2008, may request a waiver from any new regulation require...
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School Safety |
Issued 06/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Review Panel
E.O. 56
Executive Order 2007-53 creates a review panel to study the massacre at Virginia Tech University and to make recommendations for improving l...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 | Technical Diploma
H.B. 2039
Requires the state board to establish the requirements for a technical diploma. This diploma shall meet or exceed the requirements of a stan...
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Health |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 | Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Requirement
H.B. 2035, S.B. 1230
Requires females to receive three doses of properly spaced human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in order to attend a public or private element...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program
H.B. 1681
Chapter 850. The measure provides higher education grants to Virginia residents, who have successfully completed an acceptable associate deg...
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School Safety |
Vetoed, but veto overridden 04/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Fire Code Inspection Permit Fee Waiver
H.B. 2048
Prohibits the State Fire Marshal from charging a fee for permits issued for the inspection of schools operated or conducted under the auspic...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 | Health Insurance Credits Retired Teachers & School Board Employees
H.B. 2370, S.B. 1218
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...
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Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Continuing or Professional Education Definition
S.B. 1279, H.B. 2154
Defines continuing or professional education to mean those classes, courses, and programs designed specifically for individuals who have com...
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Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Standards, Assessment, Professional Development & Code of Conduct Updates
S.B. 795
Provides for the phasing out of the eighth grade cumulative history test in the 2007-2008 school year, and the implementation of the United ...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Requires School Contractors Verify Employee Sex Offender Status
H.B. 1707, S.B. 1346
Provides that as a condition of awarding a contract for the provision of services that require the contractor or his employees to have direc...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Career & Technical Education Diploma
S.B. 1147, H.B. 2039
Directs the Board of Education to establish the requirements for a technical diploma, which must meet or exceed the requirements of a standa...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Career & Technical Education Project Contractor Licensing Requirements Exemption
H.B. 2757
Exempts from the contractor licensing requirements work undertaken by students as part of a career and technical education project as define...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Community College | Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education Sunset Date Extension
H.B. 2040
Extends the sunset date for the Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education until July 1, 2012. The 17-member advisory council is ch...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Public Charter School Fund
H.B. 2311
Establishes the Public Charter School Fund for the purposes of establishing or supporting public charter schools in Virginia that stimulate ...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Veterans Day Commemoration
H.B. 2601
Requires the Board of Education to make available to local school divisions information regarding the commemoration of Veterans Day in publi...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Commemoration of George Washington's Birthday
H.B. 2837
Requires the Department of Education to make information available to local school divisions regarding the commemoration of George Washingto...
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Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Drivers Education Surcharge/Fee
H.B. 2216
Allows the state Board of Education to authorize a local school board's request to assess a surcharge for driver education programs in order...
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Curriculum--Science |
Passed 03/2007 |
Postsec. | Science/Technology Education in Graduate Programs
H.J. 611
This joint resolution of the legislature establishes a joint subcommittee to study science and technology education in business, law, and po...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Literary Fund Stipulations
H.B. 2350
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...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission Creation
S.B. 756
Establishes the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review and advise responsible public entities that are agencies or institu...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Freedom of Information Act Exemptions for Schools Facilities Projects
S.B. 1002
Allows memoranda, staff evaluations, or other records prepared by the responsible public entity, its staff, outside advisors, or consultants...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | School Board Vote Tie-breaker
H.B. 1810
Authorizes any popularly elected school board to appoint a qualified voter who is a resident of the county, city, or town to cast the decidi...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | School Board Official Severance Benefits Announcement
H.B. 1862
Requires that any severance benefits provided to any departing official appointed by a local school board shall be publically announced by t...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | School Board Employee Housing Assistance
H.B. 2446, S.B. 1387
In order to ensure its competitiveness as an employer, allows counties with the county executive form of government to provide for the use o...
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Health |
Passed 03/2007 |
P-12 | Childhood Obesity Joint Subcommittee
H.J. 637
This joint resolution of the legislature establishes a joint subcommittee to study childhood obesity in Virginia's public schools. The subc...
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Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Suicide Prevention Policies
H.B. 3064
Directs the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies that advise students, faculty,...
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No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Authorizing NCLB Waiver Requests & Lawsuit
H.B. 2542, S.B. 1212
Requires the Board of Education to request a waiver from duplicative provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that are fiscally and...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Pregnant Women Support Act
H.B. 3183, S.B. 1088
Chapter No. 822: Creates the Pregnant Women Support Act. Provisions include several related to education: Providing support services for stu...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program
H.B. 1681, S.B. 749
Establishes the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program for the purpose of providing higher education grants of up to $2,000 per year to dom...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Tuition Waiver for Children & Spouses of Certain Public Safety Personnel
S.B. 1187
Includes the surviving spouses and children between the ages of 16 and 25 of members of the Virginia National Guard or members of the Virgin...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. | Military Dependents In-state Tuition Eligibility
H.B. 1996
Clarifies that active duty military personnel, or activated or temporarily mobilized (activated for service for 6 months or more) reservists...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Reciprocity: In-state Tuition
H.B. 2114
Requires the governing board of the Community College System to grant in-state tuition to any person enrolled in one of the System's institu...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Increases College Savings Plan Income Tax Deduction
S.B. 785
Increases from $2,000 to $4,000 the annual income tax deduction allowed for purchases and contributions for prepaid tuition contracts or sav...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. | Authorizes Establishment of Employee Benefits Consortium
H.B. 3021
Authorizes five or more private institutions of higher education to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded...
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Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program
H.B. 2179
Revises the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to clarify that qualified survivors and dependents shall be admitte...
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Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. | Female Pelvic Examination Restrictions
H.B. 2969
Prohibits students participating in a course of professional instruction or clinical training program from performing a pelvic examination o...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Sex Offenders Prohibited On School Property
H.B. 2344, S.B. 927
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, dur...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Sex Offenses Prohibiting Entry onto School Property
H.B. 2344
Chapter No. 284: Prohibits entry of offenders onto school property or day care centers but allows for exemption by petition.
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Contractors Must Certify Employees Conviction-Free
S.B. 1346, H.B. 1707
Provides that as a condition of awarding a contract for the provision of services that require the contractor or his employees to have direc...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Farm-to-School Website
S.B. 797
Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish a website to facilitate and promote the purchase of Virginia far...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | School Bus Safety Hotline Decals
H.B. 1920
Provides that local school boards may display decals relating to local school division bus safety hotlines on school buses; local school div...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | School Bus Interstate/Hwy. Max Speed Limit
H.B. 1729
Increases the maximum speed limit to 60 miles per hour for school buses traveling on interstates and highways where the speed limit is great...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | School Bus Warning Devices
H.B. 3084
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...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Nonpublic school student transportation
H.B. 2302
Permits local school boards to enter into agreements with nonpublic schools in the school division to provide student transportation for a f...
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Service-Learning |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Excellence in Community Service Diploma Seal
S.B. 751
Requires the Board of Education to establish criteria for awarding a diploma seal for excellence in community service for the standard and a...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Online Corrections Education
H.B. 3191
Allows the Board of Correctional Education to develop programs to provide restricted Internet access to online secondary education or adult ...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Identifying Prisoners with Learning Disabilities
H.B. 2625
Requires the Superintendent of the Department of Correctional Education, in cooperation with the Department of Corrections, to create a syst...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Inmate Internet & Videoconferencing Postsecondary Education
S.B. 953
Requires the Department of Corrections to provide access to postsecondary education opportunities for incarcerated individuals via the Inter...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Education Postemployment Benefits Funding
S.B. 789
Provides that counties, cities, towns, school divisions, and certain political subdivisions may establish local trusts or equivalent arrange...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | State Retirement Plan Revision
H.B. 1830
Changes participation in the deferred compensation plan for new or rehired state employees, including those of any state agency, county, mun...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 | Grants for Home Ownership
S.B. 1292
In order to ensure its competitiveness as an employer, a locality may, by ordinance, provide for the use of funds, other than state funds, t...
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Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Wireless Broadband Services Funding for Schools
H.B. 2381
Specifies that the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act can be used for projects related to the technology and infrast...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Textbooks & Educational Materials Sales Tax Exemption
S.B. 999
Extends from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2012, the sunset date of the current sales and use tax exemption for textbooks and educational materia...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Reporting Number of Career & Tech. Ed. Students
H.B. 1978, S.B. 1148
Requires local school boards to include in their annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who have met the requirement...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Dating Violence & Abusive Relationship Instruction
H.B. 1916
Requires the state Board of Education to incorporate instruction on dating violence and the characteristics of abusive relationships into it...
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Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Postsec. | Economic Education & Financial Literacy Programs
H.B. 2513
Expands economic education and financial literacy programs at public institutions of higher education to include subjects in savings and inv...
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Finance |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Selection of Joint School Fiscal Agent
H.B. 2371
Authorizes the participating school boards of a joint school, including academic year Governor's Schools operated by two or more school divi...
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Health |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Childhood Obesity
H.B. 2214, S.B. 974
Relates to childhood obesity; requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Health Commissioner to work together to combat...
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Combatting Childhood Obesity & Chronic Health Conditions
H.B. 2214, S.B. 974
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the state Health Commissioner to work together to combat childhood obesity and other c...
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High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 | High School Dropout & Graduation Rates Study
S.J. 329
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the Board of Education to study high school dropout and graduation rates in the Commonweal...
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Leadership |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 | Commonwealth Educational Roundtable
H.J. 622
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the Board of Education to establish and regularly convene a Commonwealth Educational Round...
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P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 | Virginia Preschool Initiative Study
H.J. 729
This joint resolution of the legislature directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the Virginia Preschool Initiativ...
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Postsecondary Faculty |
Passed 02/2007 |
Postsec. | Attracting & Retaining Higher Education Faculty Assessment
H.J. 642
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the State Council of Higher Education to conduct as a follow up to the development of its ...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Reporting Community College Students at Higher Ed. Inst.
H.B. 2408
Requires the state Council of Higher Education to submit an annual report to the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Comm...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College In-State Tuition
S.B. 755, H.B. 2114
Requires the governing board of the Virginia Community College System to grant in-state tuition to any person enrolled in one of the System'...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | School Crisis & Emergency Management Plan Evaluation
H.B. 2271
Requires that each local school board annually review the written school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Information Disclosure
H.B. 2631
Provides that school personnel are authorized to disclose identifying information from a student's education records for the purpose of furt...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 | Farm-to-School Task Force
S.J. 347
This joint resolution of the legislature requests the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry and the Secretary of Education to establish a fa...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Due Process Procedures Students with Disabilities
H.B. 1962, S.B. 847
Provides that due process procedures for students with disabilities prescribed by the Board of Education must require that testimony be give...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Raises Correction Education Literacy Program Standards
H.B. 2627
Raises the standard for the Department of Correctional Education Literacy Program from the eighth grade level to the twelfth grade or GED le...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Community College | Correctional Education Board Ex Officio Members
H.B. 2628
Modifies the ex officio membership of the Board of Correctional Education by removing the chairman of the Virginia Parole Board and adding t...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Inmate Online Higher Education
H.B. 2041
Empowers the Department of Corrections to develop programs for restricted Internet access to online higher education courses by incarcerated...
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Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Military Students Public School Tuition Waiver
H.B. 2092
Eliminates the requirement that a student must have been attending a public school in Virginia while residing with a custodial parent prior ...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Disclosing Student Identifying Information
H.B. 2631, S.B. 915
Relates to the Serious or Habitual Offenders Comprehensive Action Program; provides that a principal or designee may disclose identifying in...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Including Birth Certificates with Student Records
H.B. 2893
Authorizes public schools and public institutions of higher education in Virginia to retain copies of enrolled students' birth certificates ...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Passed 02/2007 |
P-12 | Statewide Educator Health Insurance Experience Pool
S.J. 372
This joint resolution of the legislature establishes a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of a state-wide health insurance experien...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2007 |
P-12 | Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program changes
H.B. 1913
Amends the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to increase the number of teacher candidates pursuing careers in critical teacher shor...
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School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Issued 11/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Emergency Preparedness Planning & Training
E.O. 44
Directs all executive branch agencies, including institutions of higher education, to include emergency preparedness planning, training and ...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 10/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Continues the P-16 Education Council
E.O. 40
Continues the Virginia P-16 Education Council. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/pdf/EO_40.pdf...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 10/2006 |
P-12 | Continuing the P-16 Education Council
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 40
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 pr...
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Accountability--Accreditation |
Rule Adoption 07/2006 |
P-12 | Standards For Accrediting Public Schools
8 VAC 20-131-10 thru -320 non seq.
Amends regulations establishing standards for accrediting public schools in Virginia. The amendments include additional options for student...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Rule Adoption 07/2006 |
P-12 | Student Reenrollment Plans
8 VAC 20-660-10 thru -40
Provides a structured procedure for reenrollment of students into the public school system when they have been in the custody of the juvenil...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 07/2006 |
Postsec. | Chief Workforce Development Officer & Responsibilities
E.O. 25
Assigns authority and describes responsibilities for carrying out the state's coordination of workforce development services by the Chief Wo...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 | Qualifications to Provide Home Instruction
H.B. 1340
Reduces qualifications to provide home instruction from completion of bachelor's degree to completion of high school diploma. http://leg1.st...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Sales Tax Exemptions for School supplies
S.B. 571
Provides a sales and use tax exemption, beginning in 2006, for certain school-related items purchased during a specific three-day period dur...
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Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Minimum Requirements for Immunization for Children
S.B. 116
Sets out the minimum requirements for the immunization of children for the state board to include in their regulations. The requirements bri...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Definition of Abused Child
H.B. 1066
Adds to definition of "abused or neglected child" to include a child whose parents or other person responsible for his care creates a substa...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Sex Offenders
H.B. 846
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 young...
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No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | No Child Left Behind
H.B. 1427, S.B. 410
Directs the Board of Education to develop a plan to eliminate initiatives or conditions that are currently being funded by No Child Left Beh...
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No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | NCLB Waivers and Exemptions
H.B. 1428
Encourages the president of the state board to request from the U.S. Department of Education, in calendar year 2006, the following waivers a...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. | New College
S.B. 40
Establishes the New College Institute, or New College. Directs that New College shall:
1. Seek to diversify the region's economy by engag...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund
S.B. 443
This bill attempts to modify and strengthen the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund to accomplish the purposes of the p...
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Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Accreditation Status Disclosure
H.B. 38
Requires that all out-of-state academic-vocational noncollege degree schools operating in good standing in the Commonwealth prior to July 1,...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. | Purchasing
S.B. 664
Allows private, nonprofit institutions of higher education chartered to purchase directly from state contracts established by the Division o...
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Religion |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
P-12 | Guidelines for Graduation Ceremonies
H.B. 493
Relates to high school baccalaureate ceremonies; includes school division sanctioning of high school baccalaureate ceremonies among the pray...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. | Accountability for Safety and Security
H.B. 346
Adds campus safety and security to the state goals that public institutions of higher education participating in the Restructured Higher Edu...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Expulsion for Possessing Firearm
H.B. 1516
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-spons...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Bus Driver/Aide Protection
H.B. 70
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...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Reasonable Force
S.B. 26
Adds teacher aides, school bus drivers, and school bus aides to the list of school personnel provided a limited exception to charges of simp...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Brandishing a Machete
H.B. 588
Makes it illegal to brandish a machete in a threatening matter with intent to intimidate. Provides that a person who violates this section ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Shared Vehicles
H.B. 1582
Provides that any local government or combination of governments within planning district 16 may enter into cooperative agreements with a lo...
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Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Student Remediation
H.B. 216
Amends standards for remediation programs; requires that data submitted to the state board include the number of students failing any Standa...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Alleged Violations
H.B. 348
Authorizes the Board of Education to initiate a review of any alleged violation of its regulations by a local school board or local school b...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Release of Assessments
H.B. 1059, S.B. 34
Adds a condition to the release of Standards of Learning assessments by the state board that the release of such assessments to the public m...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Special Provisions
H.B. 813
Provides that the Board of Education may adopt special provisions related to the administration and use of any SOL test or tests in a conten...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Condition of Employment
H.B. 1109
Provides that school boards must require, as a condition of employment for all public school employees performing services on a contract bas...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Limited English Proficiency
S.B. 683
Requires the Board and Department of Education to collect certain statewide data on Virginia's public school students with limited English p...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
H.B. 532
Provides a sales and use tax exemption, beginning in 2006, for certain school supplies, clothing and footwear purchased during a three-day p...
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High School |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Earning a GED
H.B. 347
Allows participation in a general educational development program by court order; excludes from the compulsory school attendance requirement...
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High School |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Collecting, Analyzing and Reporting Graduation, Dropout Data
H.B. 19
Directs the Board of Education to collect, analyze, and report high school graduation and drop out data using a formula prescribed by the Bo...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Homeschool Teachers
H.B. 1340, S.B. 499
Requires persons providing home instruction to hold a high school diploma. Under previous law, such individuals must have held a baccalaurea...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Home Instruction
H.B. 1483
Amends the requirements for home instruction to provide that parents may home school their children if they: (i) provide a program of study ...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Making Pre SAT Available to Homeschooled Students
H.B. 1588
Requires that school boards implement a plan to make Pre SAT examinations available to students receiving home instructions. From the fiscal...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Intellectual Property
H.B. 134
Defines "qualifying institution" as an institution of higher education in the Commonwealth or its associated intellectual property foundatio...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. | Repeal of Virginia Scholars Program
H.B. 49
Repeals sections relating to the Virginia Scholars Program by recommendation of the State Council of Higher Education; provides that the Vir...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. | Surcharge for 125% of Credit Hours
S.B. 542
Provides that students entitled to in-state tuition will be assessed a surcharge upon satisfactorily completing 125% of credit hours needed ...
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Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Penalties for Violations
H.B. 36
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 viola...
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Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Articulation Agreement
H.B. 57
Requires that if a student declares an intention to transfer credit from an institution within the Virginia Community College System to a fo...
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Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Articulation, Transfer and Dual Enrollment Admissions Agreements
S.B. 538
This bill requires all four-year public higher education institutions to develop articulation, transfer, and dual enrollment and admissions ...
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Religion |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Comparative Religion Class Authority
S.B. 62, H.B. 215
Reallocates the duty to authorize a comparative religion class from local school boards to the Board of Education. In the process of revisin...
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Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Reduced Aid for Reduced Days
S.B. 66, H.B. 349
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 emerge...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Notification to School of Missing Children
H.B. 1482
Enhances current procedures for notation in school records of missing children and local law-enforcement cooperation with the schools by man...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Student Records Sharing
H.B. 1279
Amends the requirement that principals or their designees receive notification from local law enforcement authorities when students in their...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Disclosure of Criminal Convictions or Delinquincy
S.B. 656, H.B. 95
Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child of school age to provide to a public school information con...
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School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Digital Storage of Employee Records
H.B. 434
Permits personnel files of all school board employees to be produced and maintained in digital or paper format.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | School Bus Speed Limits
H.B. 650
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 wit...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Verification of Completion of Educational Programs
H.B. 691
Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to provide each prisoner with certain documents upon discharge, including verificatio...
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Standards |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Revises Standards Review Timeline
H.B. 1058, S.B. 71
Moves the biennial review of the standards of quality conducted by the state board from the odd-numbered years to even-numbered years. http:...
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STEM |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Math, Science, Engineering and Technology Grant Program
H.B. 1244
Creates the Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology Career Grant Program to provide higher education grants to domiciles who are en...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Electronic Storage of Student Records
H.B. 20
Allows local school divisions to electronically store and maintain student scholastic records (including, but not limited to, handwriting, p...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Certain Survey Components Prohibited
H.B. 1242
Prohibits local school boards from administering questionnaires or surveys to public school students if such questionnaires or surveys seek ...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Teacher Evaluation and Compensation
S.B. 324
Establishes a biennial review of the compensation of teachers and other occupations requiring similar education and training and requires su...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Return of Retired Teachers
S.B. 99
Allows persons who retired as other than a teacher to teach in a critical shortage position while continuing to receive a retirement allowan...
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Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Approval of Teacher Education Programs
S.B. 687
Prohibits the state board from conditioning full approval of teacher education programs provided by an institution of higher education on th...
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Technology |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 | Office of Learning Technology
H.B. 305
Creates the Office of Learning Technology within the State Council of Higher Education to facilitate and coordinate the voluntary participat...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. | Policies for MInimizing Cost of Textbooks
H.B. 1478
Provides that the governing boards of public institutions of higher education must implement policies for minimizing the cost of textbooks
f...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Making State Assessments Publicly Available
S.B. 34, H.B. 1059
Requires the state board to make the Standards of Learning assessments publicly available in a timely manner and as soon as practicable foll...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Review of Alleged Violations
S.B. 39
Authorizes the Board of Education to initiate a review of any alleged violation of its regulations by a local school board or local school b...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Penalty for False Statement of Residency
H.B. 1222
Provides that any person who knowingly makes a false statement concerning the residency of a child for the purpose of avoiding tuition charg...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Tie-Breaker Status
S.B. 502
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...
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Leadership |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Teacher Licensure and Education
S.B. 74
Revises statutes governing teacher licensure regulations and regulation of teacher education programs by repealing the current statutes and ...
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No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Summer School or Remediation Attendance, State Testing
S.B. 67
Aligns language regarding the Standards of Learning assessments with amendments made to the Standards of Quality. The bill reflects the Comm...
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Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Internet Safety Instruction
H.B. 58
Requires that Internet safety instruction emphasizing ways of avoiding dangerous, inappropriate, and unlawful Internet use to students in sc...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
Postsec. | Repeals Work Study Program
H.B. 50
Repeals provisions relating to the Virginia Work Study Program by recommendation of the State Council of Higher Education; provides that the...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Emergency Response Plan
S.B. 75
Requires each school to implement a "medical emergency response plan" as part of their school crisis and emergency management plan. The Depa...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Disclosure of Delinquency
H.B. 95
Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child of school age to provide to a public school, upon registrat...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Safety Promotion
H.B. 910
Directs the governing boards of educational institutions to establish programs, in cooperation with the State Council of Higher Education fo...
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Standards |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Review of Standards of Quality
S.B. 71
Changes the Board of Education's required review of the Standards of Quality from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years; provides that i...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 | Teacher Licensure and Education
H.B. 1057
Revises statutes governing teacher licensure regulations and regulation of teacher education programs by repealing the current statutes and ...
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P-3 |
Issued 01/2006 |
P-12 | Establishing the Strong Start Council
Executive Order 7
Establishes the Strong Start Council -- a 17 member body to be appointed by the governor. Powers are duties include:
1. Develop statewide g...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 | Juvenile Work Release Programs
6 VAC 35-190-10 thru -120
Emergency regulation effective December 14, 2005, through December 13, 2006 that assists juveniles in acquiring necessary work habits, devel...
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P-16 or P-20 |
Issued 10/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Creating the P-16 Education Council
Executive Order 100
Creates the P-16 education council, describes funding, membership and duties. Council's duties include: (1) Identifying opportunities to bet...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 08/2005 |
P-12 | Licensure Regulations for School Personnel
8 VAC 20-21-80, -90, -660, -680
Establishes procedures to allow persons seeking initial licensure as teachers through an alternative route to substitute experimental learni...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | False Statements on Child Residency
H.B. 2382
Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor charge for making a false statement concerning the residency of a child in a particular school division or sch...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Educational Protections for Foster Care Children
S.B. 1006
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 ...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Entrepreneurship Education Program
S.B. 969
Creates the Entrepreneurship Education Program, consisting of grants administered by the state board to public secondary schools to support ...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Commission on Civics Education
H.B. 1769
Creates the 23-member Commission on Civics Education, comprised of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, legislators, executive branch official...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Elementary Schools
S.B. 1130
Clarifies that physical education is to include activities such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular, muscle
building, or stretching exerc...
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Finance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Annual Reporting of the Use of Student Fees
H.B. 1816
Adds new section: § 23-2.3. Annual reporting of the use of student fees. Requires each public two- and four-year institution of higher educa...
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Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | School Efficiency Review Program
H.B. 1967
The bill requires school divisions to pay 25 percent of the cost of the school efficiency review in the fiscal year immediately following th...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | School Board Salaries
H.B. 1989
Increases the maximum salary to be paid members of the school board (affects the Salem board). Across the state, salaries range from $240 to...
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Health |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Vaccination for Hepatitis B
S.B. 712
Provides that full time students enrolled for the first time in any four year public institution of higher education shall be vaccinated aga...
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Health |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Self Injected Epinephrine
H.B. 1743
Adds self-injected epinephrine to those medications that public school students diagnosed with asthma or anaphylaxis, may self-administer un...
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Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Child Protective Services
H.B. 2163
Provides that if after an investigation of a child protective services complaint, the local Department of Social Services determines that th...
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High School |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Credits for Industry Certification
S.B. 1045
Directs the Board of Education to provide for the award of verified credits for passing scores on industry certifications, state licensure e...
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Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Home Instruction Notification of Examinations
H.B. 1767
Directs local school boards to notify students receiving home instruction and their parents of the availability of Advanced Placement and Pr...
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Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Virginia Interagency Coordinating Council
S.B. 1188
Authorizes the state lead agency for early intervention to contract with local lead agencies for the implementation of local early intervent...
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Leadership |
Rule Adoption 03/2005 |
P-12 | Licensure Regulations for School Personnel
8 VAC 20-21-580
Requires that individuals seeking initial licensure as a principle or assistant princial on and after July 1, 2005, must pass the School Lea...
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No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Waivers from Compliance with No Child Left Behind Act
H.B. 2602, S.B. 1136
Directs the Board of Education to seek a waiver from compliance with those provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act that are dupli...
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Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Noncustodial Parent as Emergency Contact
S.B. 981
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...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. | Scholarship Program
H.B. 2588
Amends, reorganizes, and moves the statute creating the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund to Title 30. Currently, a ...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. | Certification of Postsecondary Schools
H.B. 1719
Clarifies the role of the State Council of Higher Education in the certification of postsecondary degree-granting schools other than public ...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Center
H.B. 2422
Increases from five to seven the citizen members of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, (thereby increasing the board membership...
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Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Articulation Agreements
H.B. 2337
Requires that the governing board of each four year public institution of higher education shall enter into articulation agreements with at ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Expulsion of Students
H.B. 2223
Provides that the local school board, or a committee thereof, or the division superintendent may review petitions for readmission by expelle...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | School Boards' Policies on Bullying
H.B. 2266
Directs the state board to include bullying in its standards for school board policies on student conduct and requires school boards to incl...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Immunity for School Employees Reporting Bullying
H.B. 2267
Establishes immunity from civil damages for any school employee, student, or school volunteer who reports incidents of bullying, intimidatio...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Criminal Street Gangs
H.B. 2217
Adds to the list of crimes defined as predicate criminal act: assault by mob, reckless handling of a firearm, extorting money, shooting from...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Reporting of Offenses by School Authorities
H.B. 1716
Provides that principals and division superintendents, in reporting certain serious incidents and crimes for annual recordation and publicat...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Possession of Firearms on School Property
H.B. 2535
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, tra...
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School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Student Dress Codes
H.B. 1573
Directs the state board to develop guidelines for school boards in establishing student dress codes designed to prohibit any apparel or styl...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Juvenile Achievement Information
H.B. 1789
Places upon the Department of Correctional Education the primary duty of transferring academic, career and technical education and related a...
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State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Data Collection and Analysis
S.B. 779, H.B. 1762
Revises the Standards of Quality to require local school boards to (i) provide for data collection and analysis and to use such results in i...
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Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Athletic Ineligibility
H.B. 2832
Provides that the Virginia High School League must establish rules requiring that, upon disclosure, a public school student athlete who uses...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Teacher Licensure By Reciprocity
S.B. 949
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 t...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Teacher Licensure Qualifications
H.B. 2790
Requires the Board of Education, in its regulations governing teacher licensure, to establish criteria and a procedure to allow teachers see...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Leave-Sharing forTeachers
H.B. 2912
Requires local school boards to adopt policies providing for the donation of leave and leave without pay for school board employees with deb...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Return of Retired Teachers
H.B. 1787
Extends from July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2010, the sunset date for provisions allowing retirees to be hired as teachers or administrative person...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 | Teacher Shortage
H.B. 1781
Extends to 2010 the current sunset on the requirements that division superintendents identify and report critical shortages to the school bo...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. | Higher Education Textbook Sales and Bookstores
H.B. 1726
Adds a new section of law that prohibits university employees from receiving any incentives for requiring students to purchase specific text...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2005 |
P-12 | Conducting Division-Level Academic Reviews
8 VAC 20-700-10 thru -50
Outlines the process and procedures for conducting the division-level academic review and submitting the corrective action plan to the Board...
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Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Nondegree Proprietary School Certification
8 VAC 40-30, 40-31-10 thru -320
Incorporates nondegree proprietary schools into SCHEV current policy of self-certification. VIRGINIA REG 565 (SN)...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 | Family Life Education Program
H.B. 1015
Relates to the Family Life Education Program in grades K through 12; provides additions to the curriculum include steps to take to avoid sex...
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Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Standards of Learning
S.B. 416
Requires the state board, in consultation with the chairpersons of the eight regional superintendents' study groups, to provide for timely r...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Standards of Quality
H.B. 1254
Requires the state board to include requirements for the reporting of the Standards of Learning assessment scores and averages for each year...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Substantial Amendments to the Standards of Learning
H.B. 1014
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 a...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | School Academic Review
H.B. 1294
Modifies provisions. When the state board has obtained evidence through the school academic review process that the failure of schools with...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Enhanced Compensation and Retirement Benefits for Turnaround Specialists
H.B. 576
Authorizes local school boards to employ turnaround specialists to address conditions at a public school that may impede educational progres...
| More... |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Parenting Programs
S.B. 98
Requires the Department of Correctional Education to arrange for noncustodial parent offenders committed to the custody of the Department of...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | At Risk Student Academic Achievement Program
H.B. 1013
Creates an At-Risk Student Academic Achievement Program and fund to provide grants to public school divisions for programs to improve the ac...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Educationally At-Risk Students
H.B. 1014
Deletes language defining educationally at risk students as those whose scores are in the bottom national quartile on Virginia State Assessm...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | School Attendance Enforcement
H.B. 1326
Strengthens the mechanisms for enforcement of the compulsory school attendance law; removes the restriction on the court's use of contempt p...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Notification to Parents of Rights of Students
S.B. 438
Directs local school boards to notify parents of the educational rights of students who fail to graduate or who have failed to achieve the n...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12,
Community College | Career and Technical Education
H.B. 769
Directs local school boards to include, within the currently required career and technical education program, curricula that promote knowled...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Charter School Excellence and Accountability Act
H.B. 380
Requires charter school applications to disclose any ownership or financial interest in the public charter school, by the charter applicant ...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Green schools program
S.B. 315
Green schools program; education programs to promote waste reduction and resource efficiency. Authorizes the state board to assist local sch...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Character Education and Standards of Learning
H.B. 1014
Deletes language requiring the Standards of Learning to include the development of personal qualities such as self-esteem, sociability, self...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Student Dissection of Animals Alternatives
H.B. 1018
Creates new section requiring school divisions to provide students alternatives to student dissection of animals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cg...
| More... |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Art, Music and Physical Education at the Elementary Level
H.B. 1014
Requires local boards to incorporate art, music, and physical education as a part of the instructional program at the elementary school leve...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
H.B. 933
Adds the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research to the list of those entities characterized as "educational institutions" and "governm...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
H.B. 932
Increases the membership of the governing board of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research from nine to 15 by adding six citizen re...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. | Barriers Between Higher Education and Industry
H.B. 547
Directs the State Council of Higher Education to develop policies and strategies to eliminate the barriers between the Commonwealth's instit...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. | VA Higher Educational Institutions Bond
S.B. 31
Bond bill; Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Bill of 2004. Authorizes the issuance of 9 (c) bonds in a principal...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Standards of Quality
S.B. 479, H.B. 1014
Reorganizes the Standards of Quality and makes substantive amendments that would (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal ...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | School Board Benefits
H.B. 433
Provides that an elected school board of certain counties may grant itself fringe benefits, expenses and reimbursements as it deems appropri...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Duty to Report Child Abuse or Neglect
H.B. 1038
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 s...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Duty to Report Child Abuse or Neglect
S.B. 576, H.B. 1038
Requires each public school board and each administrator of every private or parochial school to post in each of their schools a notice, pur...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Standard Diploma
H.B. 1257
Amends an uncodified act to direct local school boards to adopt procedures, pursuant to Board of Education guidelines, to award verified uni...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Higher Education Board Faculty Representatives
H.B. 64
Requires the boards of visitors of four-year public institutions of higher education, the State Board of Community Colleges and local commun...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Community College Board
S.B. 244
Requires faculty representatives to boards of visitors, the State Board for Community colleges, and local community college boards. http://l...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Institution of Higher Education
S.B. 173
Regulation of certain private and out-of-state institutions of higher education. Revises the definition of "institution of higher education"...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Articulation Agreements
S.B. 338
Directs the State Council of Higher Education to facilitate the development of dual admissions and articulation agreements between two- and ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Higher Education
H.B. 989
Directs the State Council of Higher Education (SCHEV), in cooperation with the governing boards of the public two- and four-year institution...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Required Components of English Standards of Learning
H.B. 1014
Requires the English Standards of Learning for reading in grades K-3 to be based on components of effective reading instruction, including, ...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Early Identification, Diagnosis and Assistance for Struggling Readers
H.B. 1014
Requires local boards to provide early identification, diagnosis, and assistance for students with reading problems and provision of instruc...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Criminal Street Gang Activity
H.B. 1080
Requires an intake officer to notify the school division superintendent of the filing of a petition against a juvenile in cases involving cr...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Notification of Student Participation in Gangs
S.B. 593, Similar to S.B. 633
Adds criminal act committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with any criminal street gang to those enumerated cri...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Student Conduct
H.B. 513
Directs the Board of Education, in developing model student conduct policies; includes standards for school board policies to ensure recogni...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Hazing and Codes of Conduct
H.B. 1331
Requires the Board of Education to include hazing in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct; provides school boards ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. | Reciprocal Agreements
H.B. 1392
Allows private institutions of higher learning to enter into certain reciprocal agreements to the same extent as state supported institution...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | School Board Policies Prohibiting Firearms
H.B. 1117
Authorizes school boards to establish policies prohibiting the possession of firearms on school property, school buses, and at school- spons...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | School Division Consolidation
H.B. 978
Relates to School division consolidation; provides for a process whereby school divisions may submit proposals for the consolidation of scho...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Smaller School Divisions
S.B. 518
Creates a mechanism whereby any school board of a school division in which fewer than 350 students (Highland County) were included in averag...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Financial and legal responsibility for special
H.B. 1047
Relates to financial and legal responsibility for special education students with disabilities placed across jurisdictional lines by social ...
| More... |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Public School Enrollment of Homeless Children
S.B. 270
Public school enrollment of homeless children. Revises provisions addressing the public school enrollment of homeless children to reflect th...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Reporting of Certain Acts by School Authorities
H.B. 869
Reporting of certain acts by school authorities to law enforcement. Expands the enumerated activities that school principals must report to ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Special Education Teachers
H.B. 1048
Prohibits local school boards from issuing a previously allowed, valid three-year nonrenewable local eligibility license to special educatio...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Rehiring Retired Teachers
H.B. 1171
Each division superintendent is required at least annually, if so requested by the local school board, to survey the relevant local school d...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Home Ownership Assistance
H.B. 827
Home-ownership assistance. Allows that a locality may by ordinance provide for the use of funds, other than state funds, for grants to assis...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 | Sales Tax on Textbooks
S.B. 347
Relates to sales tax; provides exemption for textbooks and other educational materials for free distribution....
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Compulsory School Attendance
S.B. 404
Excuses from compulsory school attendance requirements persons 16 through 18 years of age who are housed in adult correctional facilities an...
| More... |
Business Involvement |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Advisory Council of Virginia Business-Education
H.B. 9
Abolishes the Advisory Council of Virginia Business- Education Partnership Program and the Virginia Business-Education Partnership Program c...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Joint Schools
S.B. 553
Authorizes school boards to create joint or regional schools offering a specialized curriculum leading to a high school diploma and a postse...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Licensure of Principals
H.B. 573
Relates to licensure requirements for principals and other school leaders....
| More... |
P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Early Intervention Agencies Committee
H.B. 15
Abolishes the Early Intervention Agencies Committee created to ensure the implementation of a comprehensive system for early intervention se...
| More... |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Distance Learning
H.B. 617
Effective January 1, 2005, each public institution of higher education shall include in its strategic plan information indicating to what ex...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | School Safety
H.B. 286
Relates to crimes; possession of weapon on school property; eliminates the requirement that any law- enforcement officer be engaged in offic...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 | Computers
H.B. 508
Allows licensed teachers employed in a full-time teaching capacity in public schools or in state educational facilities to purchase personal...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. | State Employee Long Term Care Insurance
H.B. 1179
Requires the Department of Human Resources Management to offer the long term care insurance plan currently available to state employees to a...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Sales Tax
H.B. 1084, S.B. 347
Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2004, to July 1, 2008, for textbooks and other educational materials withdrawn from inventory at book-p...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Issued 01/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Governor's Commission on Higher Education Board Members
Executive Order 63 - 2004
The governor created the Governor's Commission on Higher Education Board Members. The Commission shall develop and implement a process for e...
| More... |
High School |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2003 |
P-12 | General Achievement Diploma
8 VAC 20-680-10
Establishes emergency rules to clarify and update the definition of 'diploma candidate' to eliminate any confusion in school divisions. Incr...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
Postsec. | In State Tuition for Aliens
H.B. 2339
An alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, and therefore ineligible to establish domicile pursuant to § 23-7.4, shall not be e...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
Postsec. | State Council of Higher Education
H.B. 2678
Beginning July 1, 2003, provides for the Joint Rules Committee to appoint five of the 11 members of the State Council of Higher Education, a...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Drug Test in Public Schools
H.B. 2091
Requires voluntary and mandatory drug testing policies, in accordance with the most recent enunciation of constitutional principles by the S...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Truancy Court
H.B. 1559
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 attendan...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Students with Limited English Proficiency
H.B. 2442
Amends the Standards of Quality to require school boards to identify students with limited English proficiency and enroll these students in ...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | High School Diploma Civics Education Seal
H.B. 1503
Directs the state board to establish criteria for awarding a diploma seal for excellence in civics education and understanding of the state ...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Posting of First Amendment in Public Schools
H.B. 2140
Amends the two uncodified Acts of Assembly requiring the posting of the National Motto in public schools to add the required posting of the ...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Virginia Statement of Values
H.B. 1498
Modifies the current character education requirement to require instruction in what is designated as the Virginia Statement of Values; requi...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | School Funding
H.B. 2151
Codifies and broadens existing budget language to direct the Department of Education to collect annually necessary data to make calculations...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Facilities
S.B. 710
Provides that schools must be maintained in a manner ensuring compliance with the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code and that the scho...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Standards of Quality/Learning Environment
H.B. 1493
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 p...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | School Board Salaries
H.B. 2437
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...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Scoliosis Screening for Public School Students
H.B. 1834
Directs school principals to implement a program of regular screening for scoliosis for pupils. Provides for parental notification....
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | General Educational Development
H.B. 1464
Relates to the general educational development examination; relates to the testing age for persons not enrolled in public school and not oth...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Joint School Curriculum
S.B. 1099
Allows two or more school boards to establish joint or regional high schools to offer specialized training for careers in law enforcement, f...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Remediation for Certain Students
H.B. 1757
Requires school boards to provide programs of prevention, intervention, and remediation for students failing an end-of-course test required ...
| More... |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Comprehensive Community Police and Management
H.B. 1714
Relates to the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; relates to the comprehensive assessment an...
| More... |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | School Superintendent Contracts
S.B. 756
Requires any local school board, in renegotiating a division superintendent contract to hold at least 1 public hearing prior to issuing fina...
| More... |
Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Purchase of Prior Service Credit
H.B. 2122
Increases the maximum years of retirement service credit that may be purchased by a school division superintendent for prior service for the...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | Patents and Copyrights
H.B. 2285
Authorization to transfer interest in patents and copyrights owned by institutions of higher education....
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | State Council of Higher Education
H.B. 2489
Relates to the State Council of Higher Education; provides for the council to review the proposed closure of any academic program in a high ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | Senior Citizen Higher Education
H.B. 1868
Removes from the definition of senior citizens in the reference to the income restriction and restores senior's right to audit courses and t...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | Higher Education
H.B. 1704
Directs the governing body of each public institution of higher education to provide the State Council of Higher Education annual data indic...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. | Student Representative
H.B. 2364
Directs the State Council of Higher education to appoint a student advisory committee comprised of students enrolled in public institutions ...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Four Day School Week
H.B. 2806
Authorizes a school board to approve a four-day school week under certain conditions, so long as a minimum of 990 hours of instructional tim...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Hazing
H.B. 1617, S.B. 864
Defines hazing; Revises the hazing law to authorize public educational institutions, or schools to sanction and discipline students found gu...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | School Safety Audits
H.B. 2621
Directs local school boards to require schools to conduct school safety audits annually, requires the audits to include specific recommendat...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Firearms In Schools
H.B. 1907
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 th...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Juvenile Criminal Information
H.B. 1572
Rewrites provisions regarding the notification to a school division superintendent or school principal of criminal involvement of students; ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Firearms on School Property
H.B. 2763
Clarifies an exception for a person possessing an unloaded firearm on school property in a "closed container" by providing that the definiti...
| More... |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | School Aulthorities Crime Reports
H.B. 2680
Clarifies and revises the requirements for principals' reports to local law enforcement of incidents occurring on school buses, school prope...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Display of American Flag Decals in School Buses
S.B. 987
Provides that Board of Education regulations addressing school buses shall include provisions for the display of decals depicting the flag o...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | School Board Policies/Equal Access
H.B. 1518
Prohibits local school boards providing access and opportunity to use school facilities or to distribute literature from denying equal acces...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Student Social Security Numbers
H.B. 1716
Authorizes the division superintendent or his designee to assign another identifying number to students who are ineligible to obtain a feder...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Virginia Retirement System
H.B. 2438
Relates to Virginia Retirement System; relates to the continuation of retirement benefits for retired teachers who resume teaching....
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 | Decisions and Appeals of Teacher Grievances
H.B. 1790
Relates to timelines for decisions and appeals of teacher grievances; clarifies that a school board has a specified amount of time to initia...
| More... |
Finance--Bonds |
Approved by voters 11/2002 |
P-12 | Educational Facilities
Bond Issue, Question 1
Approving general obligations bonds authorized by Chapters 827 and 859, Acts of the General Assembly of 2002 in the maximum amount of $900,4...
| More... |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Active 11/2002 |
P-12 | Safe Schools
VA Code § 22.1-3.3
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 c...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 09/2002 |
P-12 | Supplemental Education Services
N/A
- Board approved criteria (7/25/02): (http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/nclb/boe/Supplmtl_srvcs_criteria.pdf)
- Supplemental Services RFP (initi...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind |
Active 05/2002 |
P-12 | 2002 Consolidated Plan
N/A
2002 Consolidated Plan (5/02); approved by US DOE: http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/nclb/application.pdf...
| More... |
Business Involvement |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Satellite public education facilities
H.B. 755
Authorizes school boards to enter into agreements with private business and industry for the establishment, installation, renovation, remode...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 625
Clarifies that institutions of higher education may submit applications to form charter schools, requires all school boards to accept and re...
| More... |
Demographics--Enrollments |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. | Foreign Student Withdrawals
H.B. 364
Directs the governing board of each public two or four year institutions of higher education to develop and implement a procedure for report...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Contingency Reserves
S.B. 604
Establishes contingency reserves as a major classification of school funds....
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | City-School Facilities
S.B. 276
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 m...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Standard Diploma for "Transition" Students
S.B. 609
Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for local school boards to award verified units of credit for a standard diploma for "t...
| More... |
P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Licenced child care center regulations
H.B. 1208
Provides that regulations for licensed child care centers adopted by the state board of social services or the child day-care council shall ...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. | Intellectual Property Standards
H.B. 530
Directs the Research and Technology Advisory Commission to develop and adopt a statewide policy and uniform standard for the commercializati...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | School Resource Officers
S.B. 295
Defines a school resource officer as a trained certified law-enforcement officer hired by a local law-enforcement agency; provides law-enfor...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 | Virginia Teaching Loan Scholarship Program
H.B. 1346
Clarifies that the Board of Education defines critical teacher shortage areas, including teacher shortages in grade levels and disciplines i...
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Accountability |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Revisions to Standards of Quality
S.B. 201
Requires, to ensure the integrity of the standards of quality, the Board of Education is to exercise its constitutional authority to determi...
| More... |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Guidance Counselors, Reading Specialists
H.B. 1136
Amends the Standards of Quality to require, within the Standards of Accreditation, guidance counselors in elementary schools at the followin...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Annual Fall Reports
H.B. 884, S.B. 350
Directs the Board of Education to include, in its annual fall report on public education needs and schools failing to meet the Standards of ...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | No Pass No Drive Modifications
H.B. 160
Modifies the current statute regarding suspension of driver's licenses for truancy to provide, upon a finding of a second or subsequent trua...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education
H.B. 335
Establishes the 17-member Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education in the legislative branch to recommend an integrated and coordi...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Community College | Career and Technical Education
S.B. 334
Modifies the existing requirement within the Standards of Quality for local school boards to develop plans for career and technical educatio...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Modifies Charter Schools Law
H.B. 734
Modifies the charter schools statutes by requiring the Board of Education to add the number of charters denied to its annual report to the G...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Family Life Education
H.B. 1206
Adds instruction in the benefits of adoption as the preferred choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy to the family life education curr...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Banking-at-School Demonstration Program
H.B. 966
Authorizes local school boards to establish a Banking-at-School Partnership Program, consisting of school banks or school credit unions on t...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Topics for Driver Education
H.B. 686
Adds organ and tissue donor awareness to the topics that must be included in instruction for driver education in public school classrooms; a...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | "Distracted" Driving
S.B. 597
Provides that the State Department of Education's standardized driver education instruction for public schools to include distracted driving...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Course Offerings
H.B. 1022
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 e...
| More... |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Lottery Funds for Education
H.B. 438
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...
| More... |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Lottery Proceeds Fund
S.B. 50
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. Th...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Board Member Compensation
H.B. 1141
Provides that any elected school board may pay each of its members an annual salary that is consistent with the salary procedures and no mor...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Superintendent Contracts
H.B. 434, S.B. 439
Makes the implementation of any superintendent resignation, retirement, or other financial package and contract negotiation or renegotiation...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Smoking Prohibition
H.B. 939
Prohibits smoking in the interior of any public elementary, intermediate, and secondary school; areas within 50 feet of any such building en...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Electives for High School Graduation
H.B. 1277
Directs the state board of education to provide that the requirements for the standard high school diploma must include at least two sequent...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Industry Certification
S.B. 477
Authorizes the Board of Education to substitute industry certification and State licensure examinations for Standards of Learning assessment...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Diploma Requirements
H.B. 493, S.B. 609
Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for local school boards to award verified units of credit for a standard diploma for tr...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Contacting Parents During a Crisis
H.B. 886, S.B. 230
Directs the Virginia Center for School Safety, the Coordinator of Emergency Management, and the Board of Education to include, within the Mo...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec. | Tuition Breaks for Senior Citizens
H.B. 218
Increases the income threshold for eligible senior citizens to enroll tuition free in classes conducted in state institutions of higher educ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Community College Offerings
S.B. 572
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...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec. | Regulation of Private Institutions
S.B. 627
Regulates private and out-of-state institutions of higher education....
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Basal Textbook Selection: Minimum Decodability Standard
H.B. 794
Directs the Board of Education, in making selections for basal textbooks for reading in kindergarten through third grade to establish a mini...
| More... |
Religion |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Posting "In God We Trust"
H.B. 108, S.B. 608
Requires all school boards to post the statement, "In God We Trust, the national motto, enacted by Congress in 1956," prominently and in a c...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | School Resource Officers
H.B. 498, S.B. 295
Defines a school resource officer as a trained, certified law-enforcement officer hired by a local law-enforcement agency to provide securit...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Theft of Prescription Medicines
H.B. 692
Adds theft or threatened theft of student prescription medications to those incidents required to be reported to school authorities, that, i...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Acts of Terrorism
H.B. 46
Adds incidents involving acts of terrorism to those crises and events that must be addressed in the school crisis and emergency plan to be d...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Assault on Employees
H.B. 427
Provides that any person who commits battery against any employee of any public or private elementary or secondary school engaged in the per...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Medicaid for Special Education Students
S.B. 465
Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to reimburse school divisions providing health-related services to special education ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Recognizing Child Abuse
S.B. 92
Requires persons seeking initial licensure or license renewal as teachers on and after July 1, 2004, to complete study in child abuse recogn...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Licensure Renewal
S.B. 53
Requires the Board of Counseling to promulgate regulations establishing the requirements for evidence of continued competency as a condition...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Defines Accredited
S.B. 236
Defines the term accredited institution for the purposes of the law and the Board of Education's regulations on licensure of school personne...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Retired Teachers
H.B. 1137, H.B. 1320
Changes the conditions under which retired teachers are permitted to return to teaching without interrupting their retirement benefits....
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 | Residential Incentives
H.B. 1078
Allows any county with the County Manager Plan of Government to provide for the use of funds, other than State funds, to provide incentives ...
| More... |
Governance |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Regular Submission of Plans
H.B. 79
Requires the State Council of Higher Education to prepare and submit its plans and recommendations for implementing a coordinating system of...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 | Psychotropic Drugs
H.B. 90
Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies prohibiting certain school personnel from recommending the use of a psychotro...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 | Career/Academic Combinations
H.B. 334
Clarifies that school boards may operate comprehensive schools offering all-day academic programs and career and technical education as join...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 | Student Surveys
H.B. 357
Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies to prohibit the administration of questionnaires or surveys to public school ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Tuition and Fees Revisions
H.B. 11
Repeals sections of the code which deals with tuition and fees charged in-State undergraduate students....
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed by Governor 02/2002 |
P-12 | Acts of Terrorism
H.B. 46
Adds incidents involving acts of terrorism to those crises and events that must be addressed in the school crisis and emergency plan to be d...
| More... |
Standards |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 | Encouraging Input
H.B. 159
Directs the Department of Education to develop a website enabling educators to suggest improvements to the Standards of Learning....
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Age-Appropriate Education Programs
S.B. 1144
Creates optional age-appropriate education programs for students in grades K-5 who require guidance, supervision and discipline in a structu...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 | School Board Salaries
H.B. 637
School board salaries. Provides that any elected school board may pay each of its members an annual salary that is consistent with the salar...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 | State Licensure Exams as Standards of Learning Assessments
S.B. 1056
Requires the Board of Education to authorize, in its regulation for accrediting public schools, the substitution of industry certification a...
| More... |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Public Engagement in Standards of Learning
H.B. 2777
Directs the Board of Education, prior to adopting or revising Standards of Learning resource guides, to conduct public hearings; states that...
| More... |
School Safety |
House accepts governor's recommendations 05/2001 |
P-12 | Tornado Drills
S.B. 1022
Relates to school and institutional crisis and emergency management plans; requires public schools to institute tornado drills at least once...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 | Misdemeanor Charges for Weapons
H.B. 1624
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 inch...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 | Return of Retired Teachers
S.B. 954
Provides that retired persons who are members of the Virginia Retirement System may be hired as teachers without interrupting their retireme...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 | Definition of School Board
H.B. 2786
Modifies the definition of school board, for purposes of Title 22.1, to mean the governing body of a school division. "Governing body" or "...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 | School Boards
H.B. 2786
Adjusts the definition of school board to note that such body governs a school division and revises the definition of governing body or loca...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
SENATE accepts GOVERNOR'S recommended amendments 04/2001 |
P-12 | Alternative for Praxis I
H.B. 2123
Directs the Board of Education, in setting passing scores for the professional teacher's examination required for initial licensure, to esta...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 | Testing of Teacher Candidates
H.B. 2123
Directs the Board of Education, in setting passing scores for the professional teacher's examination required for initial licensure, to esta...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 | Teacher Subject Matter Proficiency
S.B. 1304
Relates to teacher proficiency and contract status; states any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, will be required, as a condition of a...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Admission Contingent on Accreditation
S.B. 1324
Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation pursuant to the Standards of Accreditation promulga...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Suspension, Expulsion, Alternative Programs
H.B. 2512
Reorganizes the student discipline statutes and moves some sections to other articles of Title 22.1. Requires division superintendents, in m...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Alcohol Abuse
H.B. 1882
Relates to public school instruction regarding alcohol abuse and drunk driving; provides that instruction concerning the public safety hazar...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Employee Drug Offenses
H.B. 1862
Suspension of school employees. Provides that school employees who are placed on probation as first offenders for drug offenses are not enti...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Charter Applications
S.B. 1393, H.B. 2439
Eliminates the now outdated requirement that a local school board must provide public notice by December 31, 2000, of its intent to accept o...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Charter School Applications
H.B. 2439
Relates to charter schools; clarifies that, prior to receiving applications for any public charter school, a local school board must provide...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Pledge of Allegiance
S.B. 1331
Requires all students to learn the Pledge of Allegiance and to demonstrate such knowledge and requires each school board to call for the dai...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Advantage Virginia Incentive Program
H.B. 2565
Relates to the Advantage Virginia Incentive Program; revises the programs focus which is to provide job training scholarships; changes the t...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
Postsec. | Immunization of College Students
H.B. 2762
Relates to immunizations for full time four year students prior to enrollment in public institutions of higher learning against meningococca...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Access to Students
S.B. 1207
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 ...
| More... |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Internet Usage
H.B. 1691
Relates to internet access in public schools; directs every public school furnishing student access to the Internet to utilize the appropria...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 03/2001 |
Postsec. | Change in Governance
S.B. 1408
Prior to January 1, 2002, the Governor made all 11 appointments to the State Council of Higher Education. Beginning January 1, 2002, the Go...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Active 03/2001 |
P-12 | Early Intervention Reading Initiative
N/A
For kindergarten through third grade. Provides for diagnosis of reading problems in the first school years and for intervention. Universit...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Corporal Punishment
H.B. 1866
Relates to child protective services and corporal punishment by school personnel; clarifies within the child abuse and neglect statute that ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Safety Audits
S.B. 1334
Requires each local school board to transmit one complete copy of all its schools' safety audits to the Superintendent of Public Instruction...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Student Expulsion
S.B. 1359
Reorganizes student discipline statutes; defines disciplinary actions; requires superintendents in expulsion cases to consider factors like ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 | Oral or Written Threats
H.B. 197
Relates to oral, written or electronic threats to commit acts of violence on school property; rewrites statute to provide that it is a Class...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Using Accreditation as Factor for Admission
H.B. 2144
Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admis...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Instruction in Dangers of Alcohol
H.B. 1882
Relates to public school instruction regarding alcohol abuse and drunk driving; adds instruction in alcohol and alcohol abuse, the illegalit...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Background Checks
H.B. 1996
Provides that criminal histories obtained by school boards for those who are offered or accept permanent, temporary, full or part time schoo...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Exchange of Background Check Information
H.B. 2588
Authorizes local school boards to exchange information obtained from a criminal history records check of an applicant, if the applicant has ...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Career and Technical Education
S.B. 1055
Changes the name of vocational technical education to refer to career and technical education....
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Tax Refunds as School Contributions
H.B. 2583
Permits individuals to designate that a specified amount of their income tax refunds, or additional amounts, be contributed to local school ...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Comprehensive Physical Exams
S.B. 1201
Adds a physician assistant who is acting under the supervision of a licensed physician to the list of those practitioners who are qualified ...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Class Rankings
H.B. 2401
Standard 4 of the Standards of Quality; Literacy Passports, diplomas, and certificates; class rankings. Authorizes each local school board t...
| More... |
High School |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Graduation Requirements
H.B. 2674
Relates to a standard diploma; restores language in the Standards of Quality that was unintentionally deleted by legislation reorganizing in...
| More... |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Internet Usage
H.B. 1691
Relates to internet access in public schools; directs every public school furnishing student access to the Internet to utilize the appropria...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Parent Rights Concerning Special Education
H.B. 1226
Relates to publication of procedure for changing special education placements. Directs the Board of Education to publicize and disseminate, ...
| More... |
Privatization |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Commercial Partnerships
H.B. 2395
States that commercial, promotional and corporate partnerships and sponsorships relating to public schools; requires each school board to de...
| More... |
Privatization |
To governor 02/2001 |
P-12 | Performance-Based Contracts
H.B. 1967
Allows any local governing body, school district or public institution of higher education to enter into energy performance-based contracts ...
| More... |
Religion |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Religion Classes
S.B. 1391
Requires the Board of Education to authorize, as an elective in grades 9 through 12 with appropriate credits toward graduation, a comparativ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Exclusion of Students
H.B. 1706
Relates to exclusion from public school attendance; allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for ove...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Felony Charges for Weapons Discharge
H.B. 247
Relates to the discharge of firearms in schools; provides that the hunting exemption and the exemption for an established shooting range do ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | School Safety Audits
H.B. 1587
Requires schools to submit their school safety audits to their school division superintendent; states that division superintendent is to col...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Training of School Resource Officers
H.B. 1652
Relates to Criminal Justice Services; pertains to school resource officers; provides that the Board may disburse to localities annually up t...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Notification of Juvenile Crimes
H.B. 2841
Specifies that the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction may disclose to school officials that a juvenile is a suspect in or has b...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Energy Contracts
H.B. 1967
Allows any local governing body, school district or public institution of higher education to enter into energy performance-based contracts ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Bus Safety--Traffic Violations
S.B. 905
Relates to passing a stopped school bus; provides that for the purpose of being reckless driving or having a civil penalty imposed, the test...
| More... |
Standards |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Revision of Standards of Learning
H.B. 2777
Directs the Board of Education, prior to adopting or revising Standards of Learning resource guides and lists of recommended textbooks in an...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Teacher Proficiency
H.B. 2514
Teacher proficiency; continuing contract status. Provides that any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, will be required, as a condition ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Retirement Allowances
S.B. 945
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...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Amends Teacher Scholarship Loan Program
H.B. 2589
Moves and amends the Teacher Scholarship Loan Program; requires Board of Education and State Council of Higher Education to notify parents, ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Retired Teachers May Return
H.B. 1589
Requires Superintendent of Public Instruction to survey local school divisions to identify critical shortages of teachers by area, school di...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Return of Retired Teachers
H.B. 252
Relates to Virginia Retirement System retirees hired as teachers; requires Superintendant of Public Instruction to annually survey school di...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Reduction in Force Notification
H.B. 1983
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 subj...
| More... |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 | Technology Funds
S.B. 1057
Clarifies that funds provided for educational technology may be used for career and technical education and vocational programs as well as a...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Multiple Assessments
H.B. 1484
Authorizes the Board of Education to provide multiple assessments; includes on-line computer tests, field tests, and evaluation of student p...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Option for End-of-Course Tests
H.B. 1020
Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school bo...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Regional Charter Schools
S.B. 411
Authorizes the creation of regional charter schools, operated by two or more school boards, which may be chartered directly by the participa...
| More... |
Governance |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Education Consortium
H.B. 1009
Creates the Western Virginia Public Education Consortium, governed by a board consisting of the region's school superintendents; requires th...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Disclosure Statements
H.B. 636
Provides that those school board employees and persons appointed to position of trust by school boards designated by an adopted policy of th...
| More... |
Health |
Became law without governor's signature 04/2000 |
P-12 | Testing for Lead
S.B. 725
Requires proof of testing for elevated blood lead levels in the comprehensive physical examination required for first time admission to publ...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Administering Drugs to Students
H.B. 1391
Provides an exception from the Drug Control Act for persons who administer drugs to students in Virginia public schools in accordance with a...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Parent Involvement
H.B. 1147
Provides that the juvenile and domestic relations court, upon finding that a parent has willfully and unreasonably failed to accompany a sus...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Trasnfer of Responsibility
H.B. 1383
Transfers the administrative responsibility for the Economic and Employment Improvement Program for Disadvantaged Persons from the Governor'...
| More... |
Religion |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Moment of Silence/Prayer
S.B. 209
Requires school boards to establish daily moments of silence for meditation, prayer or other silent activity in every classroom in the publi...
| More... |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Gifted Education Consortium
S.B. 654
Relates to the Virginia Gifted Education Consortium; extends the expiration of the provisions of the act to 01/01/03; relates to the recomme...
| More... |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Gifted Education Pilot
H.B. 1406
Relates to Gifted Education Pilot Program; extends the expiration date on the provisions of the act to July 1, 2003....
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State Policymaking--Politics |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Student Involvement in Politics
H.B. 1541
Requires, no later than 8/1/2001, local school boards to develop and implement policies to ensure that public school students are not requir...
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Student Supports--Remediation |
Became law without governor's signature 04/2000 |
P-12 | Grants for Remedial Education
H.B. 1355
Relates to the Innovative Remedial Education Pilot Program; changes the date for which the first awards must be made to approved pilot progr...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 | Retirement System
H.B. 79
Provides for the state Retirement System, rather than the school boards, to develop the policies and procedures to administer the optional r...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Community College | Diversity in Teaching Initiative Awards
S.B. 652
Changes the Diversity in Teaching Program to the Diversity in Teaching Initiative Awards and makes the award program a component of the Virg...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Accelerated Learning
H.B. 1196
Requires Board of Education to establish requirements to facilitate acceleration of students who are qualified under standard of learning as...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | More Timely Results/Standards of Learning
S.B. 318
Directs the Board of Education to schedule the administration of Standards of Learning assessments to be graded by computerized or other aut...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Standards of Learning Assessments
H.B. 1019
Requires the Board of Education to make publicly available the Standards of Learning assessments in a timely manner and as soon as practicab...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 188
Clarifies that regional pilot projects for alternative education are designed for elementary as well as middle and high school students; dir...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Alternative Education Plan Compliance
H.B. 1468
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 vi...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Drug Testing
H.B. 588
Permits local school boards to require as a condition for re-enrollment or continued enrollment in public school, that students who have bee...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Reporting of Violations
H.B. 1361
Authorizes law-enforcement officers to report suspected violations of the Drug Control Act that occurred on school property, on a school bus...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Attendance/Driving Privileges
H.B. 490
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 y...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Speed of Response
H.B. 865
Requires the Department of Social Services to respond to requests by local school board in cases where there is no match within the central ...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Background Checks
H.B. 1238
Directs all school boards to require, as a condition of employment, fingerprinting for applicants who are offered or who accept school board...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Regional Charter Schools
H.B. 785
Authorizes the creation of regional charter schools, operated by 2 or more school boards, which may be chartered directly by the participati...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Special Tax Districts
S.B. 483
Authorizes establishment of special tax districts within counties containing town operating a school district; provides for calculation and ...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Revenues from License Plates
S.B. 413
Authorizes the issuance of special license plates with a design incorporating an apple, representing teachers and education; designates an a...
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Governance |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Governor Appointments
S.B. 611
Relates to the Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; provides for the Governor to appoint two elected...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. | Student Representatives on Higher Education Boards
S.B. 438
Requires the Board of Visitors of each four-year state institution of higher education to appoint one or more nonvoting student representati...
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Health |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Asthma Inhalers
H.B. 1010
Allows school principals, after certain conditions have been satisfied, to permit students who have a diagnosis of asthma and approval from ...
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High School |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Diploma Options
S.B. 706
Directs the board of education to establish the requirements for a third diploma option, i.e., an advanced mathematics and technology diplom...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Preschool Compliance
S.B. 170
Provides that the guidelines for the at-risk four-year-old preschool program may be differentiated according to the agency delivering the se...
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Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Parent Rights
H.B. 536
Conforms current law to the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by directing schools to annually n...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. | Advantage Incentive foundation
H.B. 1528
Creates the Advantage Incentive Foundation, the Advantage Incentive Fund, and the Advantage Incentive Program; provides that the Foundation ...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. | Student Representation on Higher Education Boards
H.B. 821
Requires board of visitors of each 4 year state institution of higher education to appoint on or more nonvoting student representatives to t...
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Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Grants for Extending School Year
S.B. 545
Creates the Extended School Year Incentive Program and Fund, from such funds as may be appropriated, to be administered by the Board of Educ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | School Bus Stops/School Property
H.B. 464
Clarifies that possession of weapons on school bus stops is grounds for expulsion from school attendance and constitutes a crime; clarifies ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Student Searches
H.B. 1445
Directs school boards to adopt regulations governing student searches; requires regulations be consistent with relevant state and federal la...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Virginia Center for School Safety
H.B. 391
Establishes the Virginia Center for School Safety within the Department of Criminal Justice Services; provides that the Center will, among o...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Proximity to Children
S.B. 197
Provides that anyone convicted of an "offense prohibiting proximity to children" is forever prohibited from loitering within 100 feet of a p...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Suspension/Expulsion for Profanity
H.B. 815
Directs local school boards to provide, within their respective standards for student conduct, for the suspension and expulsion of students ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Reporting of Incidents
H.B. 254
Adds conduct involving firebombs, explosive materials or devices, hoax explosive devices, chemical bombs, or other incendiary devices on a s...
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School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Reasonable Force
H.B. 1229
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 ...
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School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Planning Time
H.B. 1517
Requires local school boards to ensure that elementary school teachers in their employment have at least 3 hours during the students' school...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Community Use of School Facilities, Property
H.B. 1212
Amends the statute authorizing schools boards to permit the use of school property, under such conditions as will not impair the efficiency ...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Corrections Education
H.B. 53
Provides that teacher staffing ratios for regional or local detention homes will be based on a ratio of one teacher for every twelve beds ba...
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Standards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Regular Review of Standards
H.B. 633
Provides that the Standards of Learning in all subject areas shall be subject to review and revision every five years, beginning no later th...
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Standards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Technology Standards
H.B. 203
Revises Standards of Quality to make educational technology squarely within the scope of the Standards of Quality; requires the Board of Edu...
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Standards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Review of Standards of Learning
S.B. 606
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 S...
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Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Vetoed 03/2000 |
P-12 | Guidance Counselors
H.B. 245
Amends the Standards of Quality to require, within the Standards of Accreditation, guidance counselors in elementary schools at the followin...
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Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Evaluation of Remediation Programs
H.B. 975
Clarifies that educational remediation programs shall be evaluated on the basis of the pass rate on the Standards of Learning assessments; r...
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Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Remediation, Summer School
H.B. 1353
Re-arranges paragraphs of the Standards of Quality pertaining to remediation programs and requirements in order to provide consistency, clar...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Student Searches
H.B. 1445
Directs school boards to adopt regulations governing student searches; requires regulations be consistent with relevant state and federal la...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Disclosure of Ethnicity
S.B. 224
Requires school board employees administering tests or other assessment instrument to disclose to the public school students being tested th...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Board Issuance of Three-Year Licenses
S.B. 113
Establishes a mechanism for local school boards to issue three-year local teacher licenses....
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Revocation of License for Cheating
H.B. 867
Authorizes the Board of Education to suspend or revoke the teaching or administrative license of any person who knowingly and willfully comm...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Reciprocity
S.B. 289
Directs the Board of Education to provide for licensure by reciprocity for individuals holding a valid out-of-state license and national cer...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Teacher Licensure Reciprocity
H.B. 473
Directs the Board of Education to provide for licensure by reciprocity for individuals holding a valid out-of-state teaching license and nat...
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Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Cheating
S.B. 548
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 pe...
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Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Grievance Procedures
H.B. 650
Amends the teacher grievance procedure to require that members of the three-person fact-finding panel have no prior involvement with the mat...
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Technology--Equitable Access |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 | Computers to Indigent Students
H.B. 805
Permits school divisions to donate obsolete hardware and software to be replaced pursuant to the technology replacement program to indigent ...
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Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Transfer of Credits, Accreditation
H.B. 987
Provides that the Board of Education recognizes, for purposes of facilitating the transfer of academic credits for students who have attende...
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Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Technology Training for Adult Education Providers
H.B. 936
Provisions of in-service training in the effective use of educational technology for adult education and literacy program professionals. The...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Diploma Requirements
H.B. 489
Requires the Board of Education to include, in the requirement for verified credits for the standard and advanced studies diplomas, a provis...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
S.B. 147
Relates to public school enrollment of homeless pupils; revises various statutes addressing evidence of residence in the school division for...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Office of Comprehensive Services
H.B. 1510
Creates the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-risk Youth and Families, under the lead of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; ...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Drug Testing for Certain Juveniles
S.B. 153
Requires juveniles found delinquent and adults found guilty for a first drug offense be subject to periodic substance abuse testing, drug tr...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. | K-12 Nonresident Tuition
S.B. 499
Revises the provision authorizing school boards to admit nonresident students and charge such students tuition, to provide that persons of s...
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Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Background Checks
H.B. 1097
Requires applicants who are offered or who accept permanent or temporary, part-time or full-time employment with the school board to submit ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Residential Charter Schools
H.B. 742
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...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | State History
S.B. 114
Relates to history requirement in middle and high school; amends the requirement for study of documents of Virginia history and the United S...
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Curriculum--Multicultural |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
S.B. 487
Amends the Standards of Quality to require that the Board of Education supplement the Standards of Learning for Social Studies to ensure the...
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Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Lottery Proceeds Fund
H.B. 749
Provides for a referendum at the November 7, 2000, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a ...
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Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Referendum to Establish Lottery
S.B. 546
Provides for a referendum at the election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds F...
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Health |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Elementary School Physicals
S.B. 437
Allows licensed nurse practitioner acting under the supervision of a licensed physician to provide a report of a comprehensive physical exam...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Virginia College Savings Plan
S.B. 359
Relates to college tuition savings initiatives; changes the name of the Virginia Higher Education Tuition Trust Fund to the Virginia College...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. | College Savings Plan
H.B. 438
Changes the name of the Higher Education Tuition Trust Fund to the College Savings Plan; removes contributors to a savings trust account wit...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | School Resource Officers
S.B. 589
Clarifies role of school resource officers; allows officer in only to perform law enforcement duties when situation requires it....
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Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Reduction in Force
H.B. 605
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...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program
S.B. 630
Revises the provisions of the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program; allows support through gifts, donations, grants, bequests and othe...
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Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Scholarship for Teachers Program
H.B. 1408
Establishes the Virginia scholarship for teachers program and fund to provide incentive awards to students enrolled in approved teacher educ...
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Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 | Faculty Training/Technology
S.B. 460
Requires the institutes established by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia currently providing in-service training in the eff...
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