2020 BILLS
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HB 256 Disorderly conduct; students (2020)
Introduced by Delegate Michael Mullin (D)
03/04/20 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (57-Y 37-N)
03/08/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0199)
03/08/20 House: Enacted, Chapter 199 (effective 7/1/20)
Provides that a student at any elementary or secondary school is not guilty of disorderly conduct in a public place if the disorderly conduct occurred on school property or a school bus. Read bill here.
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SB 170 Public schools; school resource officers Public schools (2020)
Introduced by Senator Mamie Lock
03/06/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 169 (effective 7/1/20)
Public schools; school resource officers Public schools; school resource officers and school security officers; data. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the Department of Education and the Department of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report, and publish data related to incidents involving students and school resource officers or school security officers. The bill also requires the Virginia Center for School.
Bill information here.
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SB 1020 Public schools; alternative accountability process (2020)
Sponsored by Senator William Stanley [R]
04/08/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 876 (effective 7/1/20)
Allows a school board to adopt an alternative accountability process to provide a principal and parties involved in an incident involving assault, or assault and battery without bodily injury, that occurs on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored event an option to enter into a mutually agreed-upon process between the involved parties as an alternative to reporting such incident to law enforcement. The bill provides that a principal in a school division with such an alternative accountability process may attempt to engage the parties involved in such an incident in the process prior to reporting such incident to the local law-enforcement agency and prohibits, if provided for by the school board, a principal from reporting a party who successfully completes the alternative accountability process.
Bill information here.
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