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1999 SESSION
HB 2405 Authority to make certain alternative education placements.
Introduced by: Robert D. Hull | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Authority to make certain alternative education placements. Authorizes school boards to adopt regulations empowering the division superintendent or his designee to require certain students to attend alternative education programs after written notice to the student and his parent and notice of the opportunity for the student or his parent to participate in a hearing to be conducted by the division superintendent or his designee regarding such alternative education placement. The decision of the superintendent (or his designee) would be final unless altered by the school board, upon timely written petition by the student or his parent, for a review of the record by the school board. The affected students include those who have been (i) charged with an offense relating to the Commonwealth's laws, or with a violation of school board policies, on weapons, alcohol or drugs, or intentional injury to another person; (ii) found guilty or not innocent of a crime which resulted in or could have resulted in injury to others, or of a crime for which the disposition ordered by a court is required to be disclosed to the superintendent of the school division pursuant to § 16.1-305.1; or (iii) expelled for weapons offenses or convictions or adjudications of delinquency related to certain serious crimes. This measure does not confer upon division superintendents the power to circumvent due process procedures afforded students in suspension and expulsion cases, but simply empowers them to determine alternative education placements in these particular instances.
The superintendent's designee must be a trained hearing officer or a professional employee within the administrative offices of the school division who reports directly to the division superintendent, and may not be a school-based instructional or administrative employee.
School boards currently may delegate to division superintendents or their designees the authority to exclude certain students from school attendance, subject to similar notice and hearing requirements.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 993532297 pdf
- 02/04/99 House: Printed as engrossed 993532297-E pdf
- 02/24/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2405ER) pdf
- 04/01/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 993532297
- 01/21/99 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/26/99 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 3
- 02/01/99 House: Reported from Education (24-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/99 House: Read first time
- 02/04/99 House: Read second time
- 02/04/99 House: Amendment by Mr. Hull agreed to
- 02/04/99 House: Passed by motion rejected
- 02/04/99 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/04/99 House: Printed as engrossed 993532297-E
- 02/05/99 House: Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/08/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/09/99 Senate: Assigned to Ed. & Health sub-committee: Public Ed.
- 02/11/99 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/99 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/99 Senate: Read third time
- 02/15/99 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2405ER)
- 02/26/99 House: Enrolled
- 02/26/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/26/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 457 (effective 7/1/99)
- 04/01/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)