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2024 SESSION
SB 586 Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc.
Introduced by: Stella G. Pekarsky | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintendent or his designee finds that aggravating circumstances, as defined by the Department of Education, exist, any public elementary or secondary school student from being suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school without first considering at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary practice such as community conferencing, community service, mentoring, a peer jury, peer mediation, positive behavioral interventions and supports, a restorative circle, or the Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports. The bill also requires the Department to add as part of the student behavior and administrative response collection required pursuant to relevant law the use of evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices as a behavioral intervention in order to evaluate the use and effectiveness of such practices. This bill is identical to HB 398.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103157D pdf | impact statement
- 02/08/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106821D-S1 pdf
- 02/28/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108219D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/25/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB586ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Conference amendments
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/10/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103157D
- 01/10/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/24/24 Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
- 02/08/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106821D-S1
- 02/08/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/09/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/09/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24106821D-S1
- 02/09/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB586S1
- 02/12/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/28/24 House: Reported from Education with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/28/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108219D-H1
- 03/01/24 House: Read second time
- 03/04/24 House: Read third time
- 03/04/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24108219D-H1
- 03/04/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB586H1
- 03/04/24 House: Passed House with substitute (51-Y 47-N)
- 03/04/24 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N)
- 03/05/24 Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- 03/06/24 House: House insisted on substitute
- 03/06/24 House: House requested conference committee
- 03/07/24 Senate: Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/24 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 03/07/24 Senate: Senators: Pekarsky, Hashmi, Pillion
- 03/07/24 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 03/07/24 House: Delegates: McQuinn, Cohen, Coyner
- 03/08/24 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 03/09/24 House: Conference report agreed to by House (49-Y 46-N)
- 03/09/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (49-Y 46-N)
- 03/09/24 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 03/25/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/25/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB586ER)
- 03/25/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/27/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
- 03/27/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/08/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 Senate: Passed by for the day