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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I

20200733D
SENATE BILL NO. 5083
Offered August 18, 2020
Prefiled August 17, 2020
A BILL to require each school board to post its COVID-19 virus mitigation plan on its website; emergency.
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Patrons-- McClellan and Hashmi; Delegates: Carr and Kory
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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. § 1. Each school board shall post in a publicly accessible and conspicuous location on its website the plan outlining its strategies for mitigating the spread and public health risk of the COVID-19 virus, consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Virginia Department of Health mitigation recommendations, that the school board is required to submit to the Department of Education before reopening schools in accordance with Phase II and III guidelines pursuant to the June 8, 2020, order of the State Health Commissioner.

2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.