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2024 SESSION
SB 420 Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, Board of Visitors; expands membership, powers & duties.
Introduced by: Christopher T. Head (by request) | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind Board of Visitors; membership; powers and duties; meetings. Expands the total membership of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind from 11 to 15 members by increasing the number of nonlegislative citizen members from seven to 11. The bill provides that of the 11 nonlegislative citizen members, two shall be parents of current students at the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, of whom (i) one is the parent of a student who is deaf or hard of hearing and one is the parent of a student who is vision impaired and (ii) one represents the Eastern region of the Commonwealth and one represents the Western region of the Commonwealth; two shall be representatives of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind Alumni Association who are deaf or hard of hearing; and two shall be representatives of the Alumni Association who are vision impaired. Under current law, the requirements for the parent representatives are less specific and there is only one representative of the Alumni Association. The bill also amends the powers and duties of the Board of Visitors to include supervising the superintendent, other officers, and the faculty of the school. The bill provides that, in accordance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, any notice of a meeting of the Board of Visitors shall state whether public comment will be received and, if so, the approximate point at which it will be received. The bill requires that at each meeting at which public comment will be received each interested individual is allotted three minutes to speak and prohibits limiting that allotted time without adequate notice prior to the date of the meeting. The bill also requires the Board of Visitors to meet no less than four times each year. Current law provides that the Board of Visitors shall meet no more than four times each year. Finally, the bill defines the terms "deaf," "hard of hearing," and "vision impaired."
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104743D pdf | impact statement
- 03/04/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB420ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments engrossed
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104743D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/30/24 Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
- 02/08/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/09/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/15/24 House: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 02/19/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 House: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/24 House: Read second time
- 02/26/24 House: Read third time
- 02/26/24 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/26/24 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/26/24 House: Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/04/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB420ER)
- 03/04/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/02/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 351 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351)