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2023 SESSION
Hashmi (Chair), Howell, Locke, Dunnavant, Peake
Staff: J. Bergamini, J. Carlton
Date of Meeting: January 12, 2023
Time and Place: 30 minutes after Senate adjourns / Senate Subcommittee Room 2
Patron: DeSteph
Public school libraries; printed or audiovisual materials; selection, evaluation, and checkout procedures. Requires each local school board to adopt policies addressing the selection and evaluation of all printed or audiovisual materials purchased by, donated to, or otherwise made available to the school division that will be made available to students in school libraries, with clear procedures for (i) mandatory prior written parental consent before a student is permitted to check out from the school library any such printed or audiovisual materials that depict a child engaged in the fondling of the sexual or genital parts of another or the fondling of his sexual or genital parts by another, masturbation, sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, or object sexual penetration and (ii) handling challenged controversial instruction materials.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-253.13:7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public school libraries; printed or audiovisual materials; selection, evaluation, and checkout procedures.23100610D
Patron: Favola
Public schools; Standards of Quality; early intervention services for reading and mathematics; use of certain alternative assessments permitted. Provides that each local school division is permitted to use any nationally recognized, research-based assessment or screener in identifying and assessing the progress of any student in need of reading or algebra readiness intervention services as an alternative to a diagnostic test that must be approved by the Department of Education.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-253.13:1 of the Code of Virginia, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, relating to public schools; Standards of Quality; early intervention services for reading and mathematics; use of certain alternative assessments permitted.23102372D
Patron: Surovell
Reports of certain arrests and convictions of certain individuals to division superintendents; employment verification; method of submission; compilation. Requires each division superintendent to identify, update as necessary, and make available to the Department of Education and to other appropriate individuals a fax number, an email address, and a mailing address at which the division superintendent will receive the reports required to be transmitted pursuant to relevant law from (i) every state official or agency and every sheriff, police officer, or other local law-enforcement officer or conservator of the peace having the power to arrest for a felony upon arresting a person who is known or discovered by the arresting official to be a full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary teacher or any other employee in any local school division in the Commonwealth for a felony or a Class 1 misdemeanor or an equivalent offense in another state and (ii) the clerk of any circuit court or any district court in the Commonwealth upon the conviction of a Board of Education-licensed school employee for certain enumerated felonies. The bill requires the Department to compile and make publicly available on its website a list of such fax numbers, email addresses, and mailing addresses. The bill also requires all such arresting officials or agencies and all such clerks to transmit the required reports via certified mail, return receipt requested, or to the identified fax numbers and email addresses. The bill finally requires, until July 1, 2027, all such arresting officials or agencies request in writing that the Virginia Employment Commission provide the name of the current employer of each arrested person for purposes of determining whether such notice is required.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 19.2-83.1, 19.2-291.1, and 60.2-114 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 22.1-23.4 and 22.1-68.1, relating to reports of certain arrests and convictions of certain individuals to division superintendents; employment verification; method of submission; compilation.23100637D
Patron: Chase
Public schools; parental rights to educational transparency. Declares that the parent of any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth has the right to (i) access a list of any printed or audiovisual instructional material; (ii) participate in the textbook review and approval process; (iii) receive notice of and give informed consent to any counseling or guidance program offered to his child by the school; (iv) access his child's education records; (v) receive advance, written notice of any school-sponsored field trip, activity, assembly, presentation, or other event at which his child's attendance is invited, including a clear opt-out provision; (vi) receive advance notice of any questionnaire or survey to be administered to his child; (vii) receive notice of and attend any public meeting of the school board in the local school division in which his child is enrolled; (viii) review the annual school division budget and expenditures; and (ix) petition the circuit court with jurisdiction over such child's local school division to review an action of the school board if the parent is aggrieved by such action. The bill requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the parental right to review and exempt his child from any printed or audiovisual instructional materials used as a part of the curriculum in any class or course in which such parent's child is enrolled. The bill also revises existing policies and duties of each local school board in accordance with the parental rights to transparency in education.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-79.3 and 22.1-253.13:7 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 22.1-1.1 and 22.1-16.9, relating to public education; parental rights to educational transparency.23102373D
Patron: Newman
Standards for accreditation; school accreditation review frequency. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Education perform a triennial review of the accreditation status of a public school that has been fully accredited for three consecutive years. The bill also eliminates the provision permitting the Board to do a review of the accreditation status of any other school once every two or three years and the requirement that any such school receiving a multiyear accreditation status other than full accreditation be covered by a Board-approved multiyear corrective action plan. Under the bill, the Board is required to review annually the accreditation status of all schools in the Commonwealth.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-253.13:3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Standards for accreditation; school accreditation review frequency.23101186D
Patron: Hashmi
Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; extending scope of eligibility to certain foster parents. Directs the Board of Education to amend its regulations for the Child Care Subsidy Program to expand the scope of eligibility to apply for the Program to any foster parent of a child placed in the foster parent's home if, at the time of eligibility determination or redetermination, the child (i) meets the criteria for eligibility currently set forth in the Board's regulations or (ii) is between the ages of 13 and 17 but otherwise meets the criteria for eligibility set forth in the Board's regulations, provided that there is documented evidence that such child between the ages of 13 and 17 has exhibited tendencies toward self-harm or harm to others.
A BILL to direct the Board of Education to expand the scope of eligibility for the Child Care Subsidy Program to certain foster parents.23103989D
Patron: McPike
Division superintendents; certain localities; qualifications. Provides that the Board of Education shall require any candidate for division superintendent of a local school division serving a locality with a population greater than 140,000 people to have (i) a master's degree and relevant endorsements or a doctorate degree in educational administration or educational leadership administration and (ii) at least five years of instructional, administrative, and supervisory experience in education, with no exceptions or substitutes for senior leadership experience in non-education fields. The Board of Education may substitute certain requirements for education-specific endorsements, degrees, or educational, administrative, or supervisory experience for a certain amount of experience in senior leadership positions outside of the education field only for local school divisions serving a locality with a population not exceeding 140,000 people.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-59 of the Code of Virginia, relating to division superintendents; certain localities; qualifications.23102619D
Patron: McPike
Public schools and public institutions of higher education; student identification cards; 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline telephone number required. Requires each local school division that issues student identification cards for any grade level, kindergarten through grade 12, and each public institution of higher education that issues student identification cards to clearly and conspicuously include on one side of each student identification card the telephone number for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (formerly the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) and to annually review the telephone number for accuracy and currency. The bill provides that each new student identification card and any replacement student identification card issued by any school division or by any public institution of higher education must comply with the provisions of the bill beginning with the 2023%962024 school year.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-287.05 and by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 23.1 a section numbered 23.1-802.1, relating to public schools and public institutions of higher education; student identification cards; 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline telephone number required.23102750D
Patron: McPike
School boards; school building maintenance reserves. Requires each local school board to establish and include in any multiyear capital improvement plan or substantially similar document that it adopts a school building maintenance reserve target of at least 1.5 percent of the replacement value of such building in order to avoid major replacement costs in the future. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Construction and Modernization.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-96.1, relating to school boards; school building maintenance reserves.23103170D
Patron: Bell
Public schools; codes of student conduct; policies and procedures prohibiting bullying; parental notification. Requires each local school board to require the principal of each public school to notify the parent of any student involved in an alleged bullying incident of the alleged incident within 24 hours of when the allegation was made. Current law does not require the parent of any student involved in an alleged incident of bullying to be notified of the initial alleged incident and only requires parental notification of the status of the investigation into an alleged incident to be given within five school days of when the allegation was made.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-279.6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public schools; codes of student conduct; policies and procedures prohibiting bullying; parental notification.23102188D
Patron: Boysko
Public schools; hazing prevention training. Requires each local school board to develop a hazing prevention training program to be provided once each school year at the middle and high school levels to be required of all students in grades six through 10 as a part of their physical and health education, in grade 11 as a part of their United States history education, and in grade 12 as a part of their Virginia and U.S. Government education. The bill encourages the governing boards or administrators of accredited private secondary schools to do the same. The bill requires the hazing prevention training program to consist of a minimum of three ninety-minute lessons and to include age-appropriate, extensive, current, and in-person education about hazing, the dangers of hazing, including the consequences of alcohol intoxication, and school policies and laws relating to hazing, including criminal penalties and bystander intervention. The bill permits the hazing prevention training program to be offered in-person or as interactive assignments for virtual learning students. The bill also directs the Board of Education to incorporate the hazing prevention training program into the Standards of Learning for physical and health education and into the Standards of Learning for history and social science for students at the eleventh and twelfth grade levels. Finally, the bill requires the hazing training prevention program to be implemented beginning with the 2024%962025 school year/
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-207, 22.1-253.13:1, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, and 22.1-279.9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public middle and high schools; hazing prevention training.23103648D
Patron: Boysko
Policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine at early childhood care and education entities; scope. Limits, in the context of early childhood care and education entities, the requirement for the implementation of policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine to child day centers. Under current law, such requirement applies to all early childhood care and education entities, which include child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems serving children younger than the age of five. The bill also requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require each family day home provider or at least one other caregiver employed by such provider in the family day home to be trained in the administration of epinephrine and to notify the parents of each child who receives care in such family day home whether the provider stores an appropriate weight-based dosage of epinephrine in the residence or home in which the family day home operates.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-289.059 of the Code of Virginia, relating to policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine at early childhood care and education entities; scope.23101188D
Patron: Reeves
Public schools; parental rights to educational transparency. Declares that the parent of any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth has the right to (i) access a list of any printed or audiovisual instructional material; (ii) participate in the textbook review and approval process; (iii) receive notice of and give informed consent to any counseling or guidance program offered to his child by the school; (iv) access his child's education records; (v) receive advance, written notice of any school-sponsored field trip, activity, assembly, presentation, or other event at which his child's attendance is invited, including a clear opt-out provision; (vi) receive advance notice of any questionnaire or survey to be administered to his child; (vii) receive notice of and attend any public meeting of the school board in the local school division in which his child is enrolled; (viii) review the annual school division budget and expenditures; and (ix) petition the circuit court with jurisdiction over such child's local school division to review an action of the school board if the parent is aggrieved by such action. The bill requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the parental right to review and exempt his child from any printed or audiovisual instructional materials used as a part of the curriculum in any class or course in which such parent's child is enrolled. The bill also revises existing policies and duties of each local school board in accordance with the parental rights to transparency in education.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-79.3 and 22.1-253.13:7 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 22.1-1.1 and 22.1-16.9, relating to public education; parental rights to educational transparency.23102942D
Patron: Dunnavant
Certain student assessment results; availability. Requires each school board to provide teachers, parents, principals, and other school leaders with their students' results on any Standards of Learning assessment or Virginia Alternate Assessment Program assessment as soon as practicable after the assessment is administered.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-253.13:3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain student assessment results; availability.23101178D