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2008 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Blevins (Chairman), Howell, Ruff, Locke, Miller, J.C.

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 4, 2008
Time and Place: Monday, 1/2 hr. after adjournment, 4th Fl East Conf. Room, G.A.B.

S.B. 48 School teachers; school boards to ensure that all are provided planning time.

Patron: Whipple

Planning time for school teachers. Requires school boards to ensure that all school teachers are provided at least three hours a week of unencumbered, self-directed planning time.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-291.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to planning time for teachers.

084669352

S.B. 537 School boards, local; required to develop policies for changing students grades.

Patron: Barker

Local school boards; grade-changing policies.  Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies specifying the criteria and procedures for changing any grade given to a student.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-79.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to policies for changing student grades.

081116201

S.B. 721 Foods in public schools; Board & Department of Health update regulations for nutrition.

Patron: Barker

Competitive foods in public schools; report.  Requires the Board, in cooperation with the Department of Health, to promulgate and periodically update regulations setting nutritional guidelines for all competitive foods sold during the school day. Also requires (i) the Board to adopt the Governor's Nutrition and Physical Activity Scorecard's nutritional guidelines as the statewide standard for competitive foods; (ii) the Board to report to the General Assembly on the final regulations by December 1, 2010; and (iii) local school boards to report to the Department of Education on their plan to implement the final regulations by 30 days prior to the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-207.4, relating to nutritional guidelines for competitive foods in public schools.

088863201

S.B. 732 Class 1 misdemeanors; local law-enforcement shall report to school superintendent, etc.

Patron: Smith

Reports of Class 1 misdemeanors to school authorities.  Provides that local law-enforcement authorities shall report to the school division superintendent and to the principal or his designee all offenses, wherever committed, by students enrolled in the school if such offense would be a Class 1 misdemeanor if committed by an adult.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-279.3:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports of Class 1 misdemeanors to school authorities.

084781326