SB60 - Individualized education program; guidelines for teams relating to age-appropriate instruction.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Barbara A. Favola
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Education; guidelines for individualized education program teams relating to certain age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction; availability and posting. Requires the Department of Education to make available to each school board and post on its website by the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year the guidelines established in accordance with relevant law for individualized education program (IEP) teams to use in developing IEPs for children with disabilities relating to the need for age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction.
STATUS
Passed
SB380 - School board policies; alternative educational opportunities.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Glen H. Sturtevant
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
School board policies; alternative educational opportunities. Requires each school board to create a process allowing a qualified student, as defined in the bill, to access funding set aside for alternative educational opportunities, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that the school boards must also determine if an alternative educational program qualifies as a means to earn class credit or satisfy a graduation requirement.
STATUS
Introduced
SB533 - Education Excellence for All Program; established, report.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Emily M. Brewer
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain qualified expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to program and account administration by the Department of the Treasury and a third party that serves as program administrator pursuant to a contract with the Department.
STATUS
Introduced
SB667 - Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund; performance agreement.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Richard H. Stuart
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund; performance agreement. Removes the authority to make commitments related to accelerated permitting, property tax classifications, and other such issues in an agreement between a qualified company and a locality for purposes of the Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund.
STATUS
Introduced
SB266 - Animal control officers; additional training.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bill R. DeSteph, Christie New Craig, Emily M. Brewer
Last updated 9 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Animal control officers; additional training. Increases the number of hours of required additional training in animal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years for all animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employed by a locality.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR136 - Commending Jethro H. Piland, III.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ryan T. McDougle
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Commending Jethro H. Piland III.
STATUS
Passed
SB467 - Foster care; diversionary placements, alternative living arrangements.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark D. Obenshain
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Foster care; diversionary placements; alternative living arrangements. Allows a birth parent to identify an ALA caregiver, defined in the bill, with whom the birth parent would like to place his child in an alternative living arrangement, defined in the bill. The bill establishes background checks for potential ALA caregivers, establishes legal custody of the child by ALA caregivers, requires safety and welfare checks for children in alternative living arrangements, and requires local boards of social services to create an exit plan for reunification of the child and the birth parent or, if such reunification is not viable, for permanent placement of the child in an alternative living arrangement.
STATUS
Introduced
SB247 - Building service employees; public contracting.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jeremy S. McPike, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 9 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor building service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For example, such local ordinance or resolution may require that successor building service employers retain incumbent employees during a transition period of 90 days. Under the bill, building service employees are those who perform work in connection with the care or maintenance of property, services at an airport, or food preparation services at schools. The bill provides that a building service employer that violates the provisions of a local ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to the bill may be subject to a civil action and monetary damages.
STATUS
Introduced
SB200 - Legal notices; locality to advertise on their website.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Diggs
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR26 - Drugs; JLARC to study scope and cost of penalizing possession as a felony.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Stella G. Pekarsky
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Study; JLARC; scope and cost of penalizing possession Study; JLARC; scope and cost of penalizing possession of drugs as a felony. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the scope and cost of the current laws in the Commonwealth penalizing possession of drugs as a felony.
STATUS
Passed
SB211 - Protective orders; venue.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Russet W. Perry
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation.
STATUS
Passed
SB622 - Virginia Retirement System; additional service credit for certain teachers and school bus drivers.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Todd E. Pillion
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Virginia Retirement System; additional service credit. Allows an individual who serves concurrently as a full-time primary or secondary school teacher and as a full-time school bus driver to receive additional service credit in the Virginia Retirement System for providing such services. The bill specifies that the amount of credit allowable shall be equivalent to the amount of credit that the individual would earn if he were employed only as a full-time school bus driver.
STATUS
Introduced
SB585 - Capital outlay plan; repeals existing six-year capital outlay for projects to be funded.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Creigh Deeds, Louise Lucas
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
STATUS
Passed
SR90 - Celebrating the life of Evelyn Flengas.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Emily M. Brewer
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
SB468 - Bath County and Augusta County School Boards; cost-savings agreements, requirements.
Virginia - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mark D. Obenshain
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharing of educational, administrative, or support services and thus qualifies for adjustment of state share of basic aid computed annually on the basis of the composite index of local ability-to-pay of such contiguous school division that caps such adjusted basic aid payment at an amount equal to the basic aid payment appropriated to such locality by the 2007 Session of the General Assembly. The bill also permits, notwithstanding the requirement set forth in relevant law that a school division has 65 percent or more of its local taxes coming from real estate taxes in order for the school board that governs such school division to be eligible to enter into such cost-savings agreements with a contiguous school division, the Bath County School Board to enter into such cost-savings agreements with the Augusta County School Board, provided that all other conditions and limitations set forth in relevant law apply to any such agreement.
STATUS
Introduced