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HB 1242 School employees; prohibits employment if subject of a founded case of child abuse and neglect.
Introduced by: Robert B. Bell, III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Physical or sexual abuse of a child; school employees. Prohibits the employment of an applicant for employment requiring direct contact with students if such applicant is the subject of a founded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child. Additionally, the bill requires the dismissal of a teacher who while employed by a local school board, becomes the subject of a founded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child and has exhausted all available appeals. This bill also requires the Department of Social Services to report any founded complaints of sexual abuse of a child to a school board, where the subject of the report is a full-time, part-time, permanent or temporary teacher in a school division located within the Commonwealth.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083350432 pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/08 House: Committee substitute printed 083356432-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/03/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1242ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/17/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/09/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083350432
- 01/09/08 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/04/08 House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/08 House: Committee substitute printed 083356432-H1
- 02/05/08 House: Read first time
- 02/06/08 House: Read second time
- 02/06/08 House: Committee substitute agreed to 083356432-H1
- 02/06/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/07/08 House: Read second time
- 02/07/08 House: Passed by temporarily
- 02/07/08 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1242H1
- 02/08/08 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/08 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/11/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/21/08 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendments (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/08 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/25/08 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/25/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/25/08 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/08 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/08 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/27/08 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (89-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/08 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (89-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/08 House: Enrolled
- 03/03/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1242ER)
- 03/03/08 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/08 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 555 (effective 7/1/08)
- 03/17/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555)