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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I

20200596D
SENATE BILL NO. 5069
Offered August 18, 2020
Prefiled August 17, 2020
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-97.1, relating to public schools; declared state of emergency; average daily membership.
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Patrons-- Ruff and McClellan
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Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-97.1 as follows:

§ 22.1-97.1. Declared state of emergency; average daily membership.

In the event that a declared state of emergency, as that term is defined in § 22.1-98, causes a disruption in the provision of in-person instruction for students that affects the calculation of average daily membership in a school division as of March 31 in any school year, such membership shall consist of the greater of the average daily membership as of March 31 in the affected school year and the average daily membership as of March 31 in the immediately preceding school year.