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SB 1755 USBC and SFPC; changes to Codes for safety measures for schools.
Introduced by: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Board of Housing and Community Development; Uniform Statewide Building Code; Statewide Fire Prevention Code; safety and security measures for schools; active shooter or hostile threats. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene stakeholders representing entities that enforce the Uniform Statewide Building Code and the Statewide Fire Prevention Code and other law-enforcement organizations to develop proposals for changes to each such code for submission to the Board of Housing and Community Development. Such proposals shall have the goal of assisting in the provision of safety and security measures for the Commonwealth's public or private elementary and secondary schools and public or private institutions of higher education for active shooter or hostile threats. The review conducted by the stakeholders shall include the examination of (i) locking devices, (ii) barricade devices, and (iii) other safety measures that may be utilized in an active shooter or hostile threat situation that occurs in any classroom or other area where students are located for a finite period of time.
FULL TEXT
- 01/18/19 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 19100912D pdf
- 01/28/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105991D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1755ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/18/19 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 19100912D
- 01/18/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/28/19 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105991D-S1
- 01/30/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/19 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19105991D-S1
- 01/31/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1755S1
- 02/01/19 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/19 House: Read first time
- 02/06/19 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/14/19 House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/19 House: Read second time
- 02/19/19 House: Read third time
- 02/19/19 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/19/19 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/19 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/22/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1755ER)
- 02/22/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/22/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/19 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- 03/04/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/21/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723)