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2013 SESSION
HB 2346 Lock-down drills; every public school is required to have at least two practices per year, etc.
Introduced by: Margaret B. Ransone | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Yearly school lock-down drills, school safety audits, and school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each school, in its annual school safety audit, to complete a school inspection walk-through using a standardized checklist provided by the Virginia Center for School Safety, which shall incorporate crime prevention through environmental design principles. Each completed walk-through checklist shall be made available to the chief law-enforcement officer of the locality or his designee upon request. The bill requires the local school board to provide copies of each school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plan to the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief emergency medical services official, and the emergency management official of the locality upon request. The bill also requires the division superintendant to establish a school safety audit committee that will review the school safety audits, and requires each school division to designate an emergency manager. The bill finally requires each public school to conduct at least two lock-down drills: one in September and one in January of each school year.
FULL TEXT
- 02/08/13 House: Presented and ordered printed 13104831D pdf
- 02/11/13 House: Committee substitute printed 13105124D-H1 pdf
- 02/20/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed 13105398D-S1 pdf
- 03/04/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2346ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/20/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) pdf
HISTORY
- 02/08/13 House: Introduced at the request of Governor
- 02/08/13 House: Presented and ordered printed 13104831D
- 02/08/13 House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
- 02/11/13 House: Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with substitute (19-Y 1-N)
- 02/11/13 House: Committee substitute printed 13105124D-H1
- 02/13/13 House: Read first time
- 02/14/13 House: Read second time
- 02/14/13 House: Committee substitute agreed to 13105124D-H1
- 02/14/13 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2346H1
- 02/15/13 House: Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/13 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/18/13 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/20/13 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/13 Senate: Committee substitute printed 13105398D-S1
- 02/21/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/13 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/13 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/21/13 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 13105398D-S1
- 02/21/13 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2346S1
- 02/21/13 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/13 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/13 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 13105398D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/13 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/13 House: Enrolled
- 03/04/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2346ER)
- 03/04/13 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/05/13 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/20/13 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (effective 7/1/13)
- 03/20/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)