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2022 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Hashmi (Chair), Howell, Locke, Dunnavant, Peake

Clerk: Michael Jackson,Thomas Jackson
Staff: Julia Carlton, Anna Moir
Date of Meeting: February 17, 2022
Time and Place: This meeting has been cancelled.
Cancelled

H.B. 89

Patron: Walker

Disorderly conduct; students in grades kindergarten through grade eight. Provides that the crime of disorderly conduct shall not apply to any student in grades kindergarten through eight if the disorderly conduct occurred on the property of any elementary or secondary school, on a school bus, or at any activity conducted or sponsored by any elementary or secondary school. Current law provides that disorderly conduct shall not apply to any elementary or secondary school student in such locations and at such activities.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-415 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disorderly conduct in public places; certain students.

22105274D

H.B. 127

Patron: Davis

Academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and permitted. Prohibits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof from (i) discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin; (ii) engaging in proxy discrimination, as defined in the bill, in student admissions; or (iii) seeking information on students' race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin during the application process for admission to such school unless expressly required by federal law, and to the extent it is required by federal law, the bill requires such information to be withheld to the maximum extent practicable from any individual involved in admissions decisions to the end that admissions decisions are blind as to the applicants' race, sex, color, ethnicity, and national origin. The bill permits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof to use traditional academic success factors, as defined in the bill, in student admissions and provides that such use presumptively does not constitute proxy discrimination. The bill also contains provisions relating to evidentiary burdens of proof in certain causes of action involving such proxy discrimination or traditional academic success factors. The bill requires each local school board that jointly manages and controls a regional academic year Governor's school to collaborate to ensure that each public middle school that is eligible to send students to attend such Governor's school offers coursework, curriculum, and instruction that is comparable in content and in rigor in order to provide each student in each such middle school with the opportunity to gain admission to and excel academically at such Governor's school.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-26.2, relating to academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited, permitted, and required.

22103749D

H.B. 236

Patron: Orrock

Board of Education; authority to temporarily extend certain teachers' licenses. Permits the Board of Education to grant a two-year extension of the license of any individual licensed by the Board of Education pursuant to its statutory authority whose license expires on June 30, 2022, in order to provide the individual with sufficient additional time to complete the requirements for licensure or license renewal.

A BILL to permit the Board of Education to temporarily extend certain teachers' licenses.

22100993D

H.B. 271

Patron: Byron

Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive communities colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-253.13:1 and 23.1-907 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; workforce credentials.

22105352D

H.B. 583

Patron: Roem

Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular school activities. Requires each school board to adopt policies that prohibit the school board or any school board employee from denying a student the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular school activity because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-79.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular school activities.

22101050D

H.B. 587

Patron: Roem

School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; processing of applications. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to process each web-based or paper-based application for participation in the School Breakfast Program or the National School Lunch Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture within six working days after the date of receipt of the completed application. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of August 1, 2023. The bill requires school divisions that cannot currently comply with the foregoing requirements to develop a plan for ensuring compliance by August 1, 2023.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-207.2:2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; processing of applications.

22101066D

H.B. 879

Patron: Rasoul

Board of Education; membership; qualifications. Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Board of Education; membership; qualifications.

22100654D