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2016 SESSION
Chairman: Stephen D. Newman
Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 25, 2016
Time and Place: 8:00 A.M. - Senate Room B
Patron: Bell, Richard P.
Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the full-time virtual school programs offered to students enrolled in the Virginia Virtual School. The Secretary of Education is responsible for such agency. The 13-member Board is given operational control of the School and assigned powers and duties. The bill requires the School to be open to any school-age person in the Commonwealth and provide an educational program meeting the Standards of Quality for grades kindergarten through 12. The bill requires the average state share of Standards of Quality per pupil funding for each enrolled student to be transferred to the School.
Patron: Bell, Richard P.
Twelfth-grade government courses at public high schools; civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires each local school board to implement a program of instruction in each twelfth-grade government course in the school division on all information and concepts contained in the civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test.
Patron: Greason
Mixed-Delivery Preschool Services Fund and Grant Program established. Establishes the Mixed-Delivery Preschool Services Fund and Grant Program for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to urban, suburban, and rural community applicants to field-test innovative strategies and evidence-based practices that support a robust system of mixed-delivery preschool services in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation to administer a request for proposals process to invite community applicants to respond with localized innovations and approaches to a mixed-delivery preschool services system and a review and selection committee consisting of representatives of the Department of Education, the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, and the House Appropriations Committee to award two-year grants to six applicants in each year of the 2016-2018 biennium, giving priority to applicants who (i) commit to pursuing models of local governance that promote the successful mixed delivery of preschool services, (ii) compare classroom and child outcomes among teachers with different credentials and qualifications, (iii) utilize incentives to encourage participation, and (iv) utilize strategic assessment to discern outcomes. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2019.
Patron: Byron
New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, for the purpose of disbursing funds to certain public institutions of higher education and other educational institutions in the Commonwealth to provide grants to Virginia students who complete certain noncredit workforce training programs at the institution and subsequently attain a relevant noncredit workforce credential. The bill also includes provisions relating to the amount and terms of such grants, academic credit for the attainment of noncredit workforce credentials, and reporting on completion of noncredit workforce training programs and attainment of noncredit workforce credentials, among other things.
Patron: Lingamfelter
Public elementary and secondary schools and local school divisions; information and forms. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to adopt policies to ensure that the Department of Education (the Department) does not require public elementary or secondary schools or local school divisions to provide certain duplicate information or certain information that is not necessary or required pursuant to state or federal law. The bill requires the Board to permit public elementary and secondary schools and local school divisions to submit all information and forms to the Department electronically. The bill requires the Department to annually evaluate and determine the continued need for the information that it collects from public elementary and secondary schools and local school divisions and requires the Board to annually report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health the results of such annual evaluation and determination, among other things.
Patron: Lingamfelter
Commonwealth Workplace Violence Education, Awareness, and Prevention Program. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish and maintain the Commonwealth Mental Health First Aid Program to provide training by certified trainers of individuals residing or working in the Commonwealth on how to identify and assist individuals who have or may be developing a mental health or substance use disorder or who may be experiencing a mental health or substance abuse crisis.
Patron: Lingamfelter
Students who are English language learners; alternative assessments. Requires the Board of Education to consider assessments aligned to the Standards of Learning that are structured and formatted in a way that measures the content knowledge of students who are English language learners and that may be administered to such students as Board of Education-approved alternatives to Standards of Learning end-of-course English reading assessments.
Patron: Yancey
Former members of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Virginia National Guard; provisional teaching licenses. Requires the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of a provisional license, valid for a period not to exceed three years, to any former member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Virginia National Guard who has received an honorable discharge and has the appropriate level of experience or training but does not meet the requirements for a renewable teacher license.
Patron: Byron
Teacher licensure; Virginia career and technical education adjunct faculty licenses. Directs the Board of Education to establish a Virginia career and technical education adjunct faculty provisional license and a Virginia career and technical education adjunct faculty renewable license for qualified individuals to teach high school career and technical education courses on a part-time basis and prescribes requirements for such licenses.
Patron: Herring
Prescription Monitoring Program; requirements of prescribers of benzodiazepine or opiates. Requires a prescriber to obtain information from the Prescription Monitoring Program at the time of initiating a new course of treatment that includes the prescribing of opioids anticipated to last more than 14 consecutive days. Currently, a prescriber must request such information when a course of treatment is expected to last 90 days. The bill also eliminates the requirement that a prescriber request information about a patient from the Prescription Monitoring Program when prescribing benzodiazepine; allows a prescriber to delegate the duty to request information from the Prescription Monitoring Program to another licensed, registered or certified health care provider who is employed at the same facility under the direct supervision of the prescriber or dispenser who has routine access to confidential patient data and has signed a patient data confidentiality agreement; and creates an exemption from the requirement that a prescriber check the Prescription Monitoring Program for cases in which (i) the opioid is prescribed to a patient currently receiving hospice or palliative care; (ii) the opioid is prescribed to a patient as part of treatment for a surgical procedure, provided that such prescription is not refillable; (iii) the opioid is prescribed to a patient during an inpatient hospital admission or at discharge; (iv) the opioid is prescribed to a patient in a nursing home or a patient in an assisted living facility that uses a sole source pharmacy; (v) Prescription Monitoring Program is not operational or available due to temporary technological or electrical failure or natural disaster; or (vi) the prescriber is unable to access the Prescription Monitoring Program due to emergency or disaster and documents such circumstances in the patient's medical record. The bill requires the Director of the Department of Health Professions to report to the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on utilization of the Prescription Monitoring Program and any impact on the prescribing of opioids. The provisions of this act shall expire on July 1, 2019.
Patron: Orrock
Practice of veterinary medicine. Eliminates the exception to licensure requirements for veterinarians licensed in other states who are called to attend a case in the Commonwealth and who do not open an office or appoint a place to practice within the Commonwealth. The bill allows the Board of Veterinary Medicine (Board) to grant or renew a license or registration to an applicant who has had a license to practice veterinary medicine, a license to practice as a veterinary technician, or registration to practice as an equine dental technician revoked or suspended due to nonrenewal. The bill also repeals (i) provisions allowing the Board to issue temporary licenses to certain applicants and (ii) provisions related to penalties for violations of statutes governing the practice of veterinary medicine.
Patron: LaRock
Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts. Permits the parents of certain students with disabilities to apply to their resident school division for a Parental Choice Education Savings Account, to consist of the student's Standards of Quality per pupil funds and to be used for certain expenses of the student, including (i) tuition, fees, or required textbooks at a private elementary or secondary school or preschool that is located in the Commonwealth and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin; (ii) educational therapies or services for the student from a practitioner or provider, including paraprofessionals or educational aides; (iii) tutoring services; (iv) curriculum; (v) tuition or fees for a private online learning program; (vi) fees for a nationally standardized norm-referenced achievement test, an Advanced Placement examination, or any examination taken to gain admission to an institution of higher education; or (vii) tuition fees or required textbooks at a public two-year or four-year institution of higher education in the Commonwealth or at an accredited private institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions for the audit and revocation of such accounts.
Patron: Austin
Standards of Learning assessments in English reading and mathematics; retake; recovery credit. Requires the Department of Education to award recovery credit to any student in grades three through eight who fails a Standards of Learning assessment in English reading or mathematics, receives remediation, and subsequently retakes and passes such an assessment, including any such student who subsequently retakes such an assessment on an expedited basis.
Patron: Taylor
Certain comprehensive community colleges; veterans advisors and veterans resource centers. Requires each of the seven comprehensive community colleges in the Commonwealth with the highest number of enrolled students who are veterans to employ at least one full-time veterans advisor to provide comprehensive and intensive enrollment and advising services to current and prospective students who are veterans and establish a veterans resource center on campus to provide access to federal and state veterans resources; serve as a quiet place for veterans to study; enable veterans to connect to other veterans, helping them renew the bonds of military service; and be the central hub for all activities on campus related to veterans.
Patron: McClellan
School Resource Officer Grants Program school resource officers; conditions of employment. Relieves school resource officers employed pursuant to the School Resource Officer Grants Program from the obligation to enforce school board rules and codes of student conduct as a condition of their employment.
Patron: Landes
Board of Education; policy on sexually explicit instructional material. Requires the Board of Education to establish a policy to require each public elementary or secondary school to (i) notify the parent of any student whose teacher reasonably expects to provide instructional material that includes sexually explicit content, (ii) permit the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content upon request, and (iii) provide, as an alternative to instructional material and related academic activities that include sexually explicit content, nonexplicit instructional material and related academic activities to any student whose parent so requests.
Patron: LeMunyon
Local school boards; public school choice. Requires, notwithstanding any agreement, waiver from the federal government, or provision of law to the contrary, the Board of Education, effective starting with the 2017-2018 school year, to select 12 schools identified for comprehensive support and improvement and require such schools to provide all enrolled students with the option to transfer to another public school in the school division in accordance with relevant federal law and subject to certain conditions and limitations established by the relevant local school board. The bill will not become effective unless reenacted by the 2017 session of the General Assembly.
Patron: LeMunyon
School-affiliated entities; student personal information. Extends various protections for student information that is collected and maintained, used, or shared on certain websites, mobile applications, or online services used by school affiliated entities. The bill defines "school affiliated entity" as any private entity that provides support to a local school division or a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth, including alumni associations, booster clubs, parent-teacher associations, parent-teacher-student associations, parent-teacher organizations, public education foundations, public education funds, and scholarship organizations.
Patron: LeMunyon
Board of Education; annual report; local reporting requirements. Requires the annual Board of Education report to the Governor and the General Assembly to include a complete listing of each report (i) that local school divisions are required to submit to the Board or any other state agency, including name, frequency, and an indication of whether the report contains information that the local school division is also required to submit to the federal government, and (ii) pertaining to public education that local school divisions are required to submit to the federal government, including name and frequency.
Patron: LeMunyon
Higher education; student mental health policies. Specifies that the contact person designated by a memorandum of understanding between a public four-year institution of higher education and a mental health care provider to be notified when a student is involuntarily committed, or when a student is discharged from a facility and consents to such notification, shall be notified only to the extent allowable under state and federal privacy laws.
Patron: LeMunyon
Data on teacher performance and quality; confidentiality. Requires data collected by or for the Department of Education or the local school board or made available to and able to be used by the local school board to judge the performance or quality of a teacher, maintained in a teacher's personnel file or otherwise, to be confidential in most instances. Current law requires such data to be confidential only if it is used by a local school board to make such a judgment. The bill provides that if such data is disclosed pursuant to court order, for the purposes of a grievance proceeding involving the teacher, or as otherwise required by state or federal law, such disclosure shall be made in a form that does not personally identify any student or other teacher.
Patron: Hope
Sponsored residential and shared living services; background checks. Establishes a requirement for a national fingerprint-based background check for providers of sponsored residential and shared living services.
Patron: Orrock
Onsite sewage systems and private wells; evaluation and design. Directs the State Health Commissioner to develop a plan for the orderly reduction and elimination of evaluation and design services by the Department of Health for onsite sewage systems and private wells, which shall provide for the protection of the public health as the Department transitions to accepting only applications that are supported by private site evaluations and designs from a licensed professional engineer or licensed onsite soil evaluator or, for any work subject to regulations governing private wells in the Commonwealth, by a licensed water well system provider. The Commissioner shall report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 15, 2016.
Patron: Robinson
Nurse practitioners; practicing outside of a patient care team. Provides that in cases in which a physician who is serving as a patient care team physician dies, becomes disabled, retires from active practice, surrenders his license or has it suspended or revoked by the Board of Medicine, or relocates his practice such that he is no longer able to serve, and a nurse practitioner who was part of the patient care team is unable to enter into a new practice agreement with another patient care team physician, the nurse practitioner may continue to practice without a patient care team physician for an initial period not to exceed 60 days upon notification to the designee of the Boards of Medicine and Nursing . The initial period may be extended for a period not to exceed 60 additional days upon approval of the Boards' designee, provided the nurse practitioner provides evidence of efforts made to secure another patient care team physician and of access to physician input.
Patron: O'Bannon
Consent to organ donation. Eliminates the requirement that a person indicate his willingness to make an anatomical gift every time he renews or replaces his license.
Patron: Filler-Corn
High school family life education curricula; programs on the prevention of dating violence, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of dating violence, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
Patron: Peace
Waiver of teacher licensure requirements; trade and industrial education programs. Permits any division superintendent
to apply to the Department of Education for an annual waiver of the
teacher licensure requirements for any individual whom the local school
board hires or seeks to hire to teach in a trade and industrial education program who has obtained or is working toward an industry credential relating to the program area and who has at least 4,000 hours of recent and relevant employment experience, as defined by the Board pursuant to regulation. The bill requires the Department to establish a procedure for submitting, receiving, and acting upon such annual waiver applications.
Patron: Greason
School service providers. Makes several changes to the provisions relating to the protection of student personal information by school service providers, including (i) defining "targeted advertising" as advertising that is presented to a student and selected on the basis of information obtained or inferred over time from such student's online behavior, use of applications, or sharing of student personal information, which does not include advertising that is presented to a student at an online location on the basis of such student's online behavior, use of applications, or sharing of student personal information during his current visit to that online location or in response to that student's request for information or feedback and for which a student's online activities or requests are not retained over time for the purpose of subsequent advertising and (ii) clarifying that other provisions of law do not prohibit school service providers from performing certain acts, including disclosing student personal information to ensure legal or regulatory compliance, protect against liability, or protect the security or integrity of its school service.
Patron: Greason
Student personal information; school services; college and career readiness assessment. Excludes any website, mobile application, or online service that is used for the purposes of college and career readiness assessment from the definition of "school service," thus relieving providers of such websites, mobile applications, and online services from the obligation to provide various protections for student personal information collected through such websites, mobile applications, and online services.
Patron: Stolle
Military medical personnel; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services, in collaboration with the Department of Health Professions, to establish a pilot program in which military medical personnel may practice and perform certain delegated acts that constitute the practice of medicine under the supervision of a licensed physician or podiatrist. The bill requires the Department of Veterans Services to establish general requirements for participating in the program.
Patron: Stolle
Prescribers of covered substances; continuing education. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Health Professions to disclose information to the Board of Medicine about prescribers who meet a certain threshold for prescribing covered substance for the purpose of requiring relevant continuing education. The threshold shall be determined by the Board of Medicine in consultation with the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill also directs the Board of Medicine to require prescribers identified by the Director of the Department of Health Professions to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to pain management, the responsible prescribing of covered substances, and the diagnosis and management of addiction. Prescribers required to complete continuing education shall be notified of such requirement no later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year. The provisions of the bill will expire on July 1, 2022.
Patron: Greason
Standards and programs of instruction; computer science and computational thinking. Requires the Standards of Learning established by the Board of Education and the program of instruction for grades kindergarten through 12 developed and implemented by each local school board to include computer science and computational thinking, including computer coding.
Patron: Cline
Teacher preparation and licensure; dyslexia.
Requires Board of Education regulations governing teacher licensure
to require every person seeking initial licensure or renewal of a
license to complete awareness training, provided by the Department of Education, on the indicators of dyslexia and the evidence-based interventions and accommodations for dyslexia. The bill requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to ensure that all teacher preparation programs offered at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth or otherwise available convey information on the identification of students at risk for dyslexia and related disorders.
Patron: Greason
Board of Education; high school graduation requirements. Removes existing provisions related to standard and advanced studies diplomas and standard and verified units of credit and requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to (i) develop and implement, in consultation with stakeholders representing elementary and secondary education, higher education, and business and industry in the Commonwealth and including parents, policymakers, and community leaders in the Commonwealth, a Profile of a Virginia Graduate that identifies the knowledge and skills that students should attain during high school in order to be successful contributors to the economy of the Commonwealth, giving due consideration to critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and citizenship; (ii) emphasize the development of core skill sets in the early years of high school; and (iii) establish and require students to follow in the later years of high school alternative paths toward college and career readiness that include internships, externships, and credentialing. The bill requires the Board of Education to establish such graduation requirements no later than September 1, 2017, and specifies that such requirements shall apply to each student who enrolls in high school as (a) a freshman after July 1, 2018, (b) a sophomore after July 1, 2019, (c) a junior after July 1, 2020, or (d) a senior after July 1, 2021. The bill requires the Board of Education to report on such graduation requirements to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than September 1, 2017.
Patron: Greason
Background checks; certain private school employees. Requires the governing board or administrator of a private elementary or secondary school that is accredited pursuant to §22.1-19 that operates a child welfare agency regulated by the Department of Social Services to accept evidence of a background check conducted by the Department of Social Services in lieu of a background check in accordance with the requirements governing private schools, beginning on July 1, 2016. The bill also requires governing boards or administrators of private schools accredited pursuant to §22.1-19 to require, as a condition of employment, that any applicant who is offered or who accepts employment requiring direct contact with students provide written consent and personal information necessary to obtain a search of the central registry of founded complaints of child abuse and neglect maintained by the Department of Social Services beginning on July 1, 2016.
Patron: Stolle
Licensure and practice of associate physicians. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a two-year license to practice as an associate physician to an applicant who is 18 years of age or older, is of good moral character, has successfully graduated from an accredited medical school, has successfully completed Step 1 and Step 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, and has not been engaged in a postgraduate medical internship or residency training program. The bill requires all associate physicians to practice in accordance with a practice agreement entered into between the associate physician and a physician licensed by the Board and provides for prescriptive authority of associate physicians in accordance with regulations of the Board. The bill requires the Board to promulgate such regulations to be effective no later than July 1, 2018.
Patron: Yancey
Advance disclosure of allowed amount or charge for procedure. Requires every hospital to furnish a patient scheduled to receive an elective procedure, test or service to be performed by the hospital, upon his request or the request of his legally authorized representative made no less than three days in advance of the date on which such elective procedure, test or service is scheduled to be performed, with an estimate of the payment amount for which the participant will be responsible for such elective procedure, test, or service.
Patron: Toscano
Certain students with limited English proficiency; standard diploma; credit flexibility. Requires the Board of Education to make provision in its regulations for flexibility for any student with limited English proficiency to earn the credits required for a diploma. The bill requires such flexibility to permit local school divisions to award credit to such students who have failed reading, writing, or mathematics Standards of Learning assessments by a narrow margin, as defined by the Board.
Patron: Wilt
School property; reasonable access by youth groups federally listed as patriotic and national organizations. Requires school boards to provide reasonable access to school property to any youth group listed as a patriotic and national organization in 36 U.S.C. Subtitle II, Part B, such as the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, and their affiliated groups, councils, staffs, and volunteers in the Commonwealth, to provide written materials and speak to students at times other than instructional time during the school day to encourage such students to participate in the activities and programs provided by such organization.
Patron: Rush
Four-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures. Permits each public institution of higher education to offer alternative tuition or fee structures to students. The bill provides that if a public institution of higher education offers alternative tuition or fee structures, including discounted tuition, four-year flat tuition rates, discounted student fees, or student fee and student services flexibility, to any Virginia-domiciled, first-time, incoming freshman undergraduate student who enrolls full time with the intent to earn a degree in a program that leads to employment in a high-demand field in the region, according to guidelines established by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, each student who receives the benefits of such an alternative tuition or fee structure shall count one and a half times for the purpose of (i) targeted economic and innovation incentives to increase degree completion in a timely or expedited manner, (ii) the base adequacy funding guidelines adopted and periodically updated by the Joint Subcommittee Studying Higher Education Funding Policies, or (iii) biennial assessments of institutional performance as set forth in Part 4 of the general appropriation act and consistent with § 23-9.6:1.01.
Patron: Massie
Institutions of higher education; law-enforcement agencies; response to sexual assault. Permits each public institution of higher education or nonprofit private institution of higher education to request the cooperation of the primary law enforcement agency of the locality in which the institution is located to establish a written memorandum of understanding with such law-enforcement agency to address the prevention of and response to criminal sexual assault and requires such law-enforcement agency to cooperate in establishing such memorandum of understanding.
Patron: Landes
Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosures. Provides that the Director of the Department of Health Professions may disclose information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Program about a specific recipient who is a member of a Virginia Medicaid managed care program to a physician or pharmacist licensed in the Commonwealth and employed by the Virginia Medicaid managed care program to determine eligibility for and to manage the care of the specific recipient in a Patient Utilization Management Safety or similar program. The bill also requires the Prescription Monitoring Program advisory committee to provide guidance to the Director regarding such disclosures.
Patron: Cline
Department of Health; restrictions on expenditure of funds related to abortions and family planning services. Prohibits the Department of Health from spending any funds on an abortion that is not qualified for matching funds under the Medicaid program or providing any grants or other funds to any entity other than a licensed hospital that performs such abortions. The bill also prioritizes the types of entities that the Department of Health contract with or provide grants to for family planning services.
Patron: Filler-Corn
ABLE savings trust accounts; exclusion from determination of state means-tested assistance and benefits. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of state law that requires consideration of one or more financial circumstances of an individual for the purpose of determining (i) the individual's eligibility to receive any assistance or benefit pursuant to such provision of state law or (ii) the amount of any such assistance or benefit that such individual is eligible to receive pursuant to such provision of state law, any (a) moneys in an ABLE savings trust account for which such individual is the beneficiary, including any interest on such moneys, (b) contributions to an ABLE savings trust account for which such individual is the beneficiary, and (c) distribution for qualified disability expenses for such individual from an ABLE savings trust account for which such individual is the beneficiary shall be disregarded for such purpose with respect to any period during which such individual remains the beneficiary of, makes contributions to, or receives distributions for qualified disability expenses from such ABLE savings trust account.
Patron: Herring
Boards of visitors of state-supported institutions of higher education; student intellectual property rights. Requires the boards of visitors of state-supported institutions of higher education to adopt policies that are supportive of the intellectual property rights of matriculated students who are not employed by such institution.
Patron: Hester
School board of the City of Norfolk. Repeals obsolete provisions for the appointment of members to the school board of the City of Norfolk. The selection of members of such school board was changed to direct election by the voters by referendum in 2014 pursuant to § 22.1-57.2 of the Code of Virginia. The bill contains an emergency clause.
EMERGENCY
Patron: O'Bannon
Regulation of X-ray machines. Clarifies the authority of the Department of Health (the Department) related to registration and inspection of X-ray producing devices and requires the Department to develop a list of qualified private inspectors of X-ray machines and develop regulations for the annual registration of such private inspectors. The bill authorizes the Department to collect a fee for registration of private inspectors of X-ray machines.
Patron: Robinson
Restaurants; annual inspections. Provides that every restaurant in the Commonwealth shall be inspected at least annually, with no more than 12 months elapsing between each such inspection.
Patron: Anderson
Public schools; fire drills; lock-down drills. Requires every public school to hold a fire drill at least twice during the first 20 school days of each school session and at least two additional fire drills during the remainder of the school session. Under current law, every public school is required to hold a fire drill at least once every week during the first 20 school days of each school session and at least once every month during the remainder of the school session. The bill also requires every public school to hold a lock-down drill at least twice during the first 20 school days of each school session and at least two additional lock-down drills during the remainder of the school session. Under current law, every public school is required to hold at least two lock-down drills every school year.
Patron: Pillion
Schedule IV drugs; eluxadoline. Adds eluxadoline to the list of Schedule IV drugs.
Patron: Landes
Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; educational programs for members; member reappointment. Prohibits the reappointment of any member of the board of visitors of a four-year public institution of higher education or the State Board for Community Colleges who fails to attend during his first four-year term the statutorily required educational programs provided by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia that address the role, duties, and responsibilities of such governing boards.
Patron: Massie
Private institutions of higher education; memoranda of understanding; sexual assaults. Clarifies that nonprofit private institutions of higher education that have security departments instead of campus police forces are required to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a law-enforcement agency that requires such agency to notify the local attorney for the Commonwealth within 48 hours of beginning any investigation involving felony criminal sexual assault occurring on campus property or other property related to the institution.
Patron: LeMunyon
School boards; assignment of teachers; class size limits. Provides that any time the number of students in a class exceeds the statutorily prescribed class size limit, the local school division shall notify the parent of each student in such class of such fact no later than 10 days after the date on which the class exceeded the class size limits. The bill requires such notification to state the reason that the class size exceeds the class size limit and describe the measures that the local school division will take to reduce the class size to comply with the limit.