2022 VA General Assembly

Start date of Special Session has been changed to Mon, April 4.
[Originally scheduled for April 27, 2022. See GA calendar]

Status of 2022 Priority Legislation

of the Virginia Grassroots Coalition

Enrolled = Bill has passed both houses, sent to the Governor, but not yet signed.
Conf. Comm. = Bill passed each house in different forms, will be resolved in Special Session.

■ = Bill is dead or 'continued.'

Cat	Number	Title	Patron	House	Senate	Governor	updated
2022 Priority Bills Education
education	HB 853 Support	Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program Fund; unused funds; Enslaved Ancestors College. more... Requires any moneys remaining in the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year to be distributed in equal parts to each of the five public institutions of higher education that are required to implement and execute the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program ...	David Reid(D-HD32)	Stricken			1/31/22
education	HB 860 Support	Teacher Training Corps; established, report. more... Establishes the Teacher Training Corps for the purpose of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awarding scholarships to students who obtain teaching degrees and certifications at participating institutions and requiring such students to fill teacher positions for specified periods of time at high-needs schools, as defined in the bill, and meet other requirements. ...	David Reid(D-HD32)	Left			2/15/22
education	HB 1135 Support	Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors. more... Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5....	Jeffrey Bourne (D-HD71)	Left			2/15/22
education	SB 157 Support	Competitive compensation for certain positions in public elementary and secondary schools. more... Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers and all other individuals employed in Standards of Quality-funded positions be compensated at a rate that is competitive, defined as at or above the national average salary for the position, in order to attract and keep highly qualified individuals in such positions....	Ghazala Hashmi (D-SD10)		Continued		2/9/22
education	SB 454 Support	Teacher Training Corps; established, report. more... Establishes the Teacher Training Corps for the purpose of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awarding scholarships to students who obtain teaching degrees and certifications at participating institutions and requiring such students to fill teacher positions for specified periods of time at high-needs schools, as defined in the bill, and meet other requirements. ...	Jennifer Boysko(D-SD33)		Continued		2/2/22
education	SB 481 Support	School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds, etc. more... Encourages each school board to enter into a collaborative agreement with the local governing body to set aside in a separate fund any sums appropriated to the school board by the local governing body that are unexpended by the school board in any year in order to use such sums to finance school maintenance, renovation, or construction in the local school division. The bill declares any school board that fails to enter into such a collaborative agreement ineligible to participate in any state gr	Jennifer McClellan (D-SD9)	Left	Passed		3/15/22
education	SB 490 Support	Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors. more... Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5. ...	Jennifer McClellan (D-SD9)	Passed	Passed	Signed 08/04/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)	1/6/23
education	HB 4 Oppose	Requires school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense. more... Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	Scott Wyatt (R-HD97)	Passed	Passed	Signed 05/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)	1/6/23
education	HB 9 Oppose	Public school teachers; probationary term of service, grounds for dismissal, and dismissal hearings. more... Permits each school board to extend for up to two additional years the three-year probationary term of service that is required for each teacher in the school division before the issuance of a continuing contract and prohibits each school board from reemploying a teacher whose performance evaluation during such probationary period is not satisfactory. ...	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Passed	PBI		2/17/22
education	HB 12 Oppose	Public school buildings; limits entry points, screening individuals. more... Requires each local school board to (i) limit to the lowest feasible number the entry points in each public school building in the local school division, (ii) ensure that each individual who seeks to enter any school building in the local school division is screened with a handheld metal detector wand by a school security officer or another appropriate school board employee who is appropriately trained in such method of screening, (iii) require each such school security officer or other appropri	Timothy Anderson (R-HD83)	Left			2/15/22
education	HB 59 Oppose	School principals; incident reports. more... Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	John McGuire (R-HD56)	Left			2/15/22
education	HB 127 Oppose	Academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and permitted. more... Prohibits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof from (i) discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin; (ii) engaging in proxy discrimination, as defined in the bill, in student admissions; or (iii) seeking information on students' race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin during the application process for admission to	Glenn Davis (R-HD84)	Passed	Passed	Signed 04/11/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 485 (effective 7/1/22)	4/12/22
education	HB 781 Oppose	Public elementary and secondary schools; student citizenship skills. more... ...The bill prohibits the Board and Department of Education and each local school board from teaching, instructing, or training certain individuals and groups, including teachers and students, to support, believe, endorse, embrace, confess, act upon, or otherwise assent to a divisive concept, as defined in the bill, or penalizing or discriminating against any such individual or group for refusing to do so ...	Wren Williams(R-HD9)	Left			2/15/22
education	SB 2 Oppose	Requires school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense... more... School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	John A. Cosgrove (R-SD14)		Incorp		2/12/22
education	SB 20 Oppose	Treatment of transgender students; model policies. more... Eliminates the requirement that each school board adopt policies that are consistent with the model policies developed by the Department of Education concerning the treatment of transgender students in public elementary and secondary schools.	Travis Hackworth (R-SD38)		PBI		2/4/22
education	SB 36 Oppose	School principals; incident reports. more... Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	Thomas Norment (R-HD3)	Passed	Passed	Signed	6/17/22

No. of bills: 16

Glossary

Dillon Rule. Restricts local government authority to enact ordinances.

Conference Committee. A temporary committee w. members from both the House and Senate, tasked with reconciling differences in legislation that passed both chambers.

Continued/Carried over. Action taken in an even-numbered year to postpone the consideration of a measure until the next regular session of the General Assembly.

Crossover. The last day for a bill to pass out of the chamber in which it was introduced and move forward for consideration in the opposite chamber. If a bill does not move forward, it is "Left" (dead).

Engrossed. A legislative stage when a bill passes the second reading in the House of origin. Every bill has to be "read" on the floor three times before voting on it. The action or any debate or discussion usually comes on the day of the second reading or the third reading.

Enrolled. Legislation which has passed both the House of Delegates and the Senate, signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, sent to the Governor, but not yet signed.

Failed to report. Defeated. The rejection of a motion to 'report' a bill to the full chamber.

Incorporated. Rolled into someone another bill. Either because they're identical, or they have incorporated *some* of the language in, and the patron agreed to have her name on the other bill.

Patron. Bill sponsor. There can be many patrons.

PBI. Passed by Indefinitely. Action to allow a committee to reconsider legislation at a later meeting. If the committee takes no further action, the bill is dead. [Usually the bill is dead.]

Referred. The assignment of legislation to another standing committee with no stance on the policy of the measure (neither endorses nor rejects the legislation).

Reported. The approval of a measure by the majority of the committee. The legislation may be reported by the committee with or without amendments. A bill may also be reported and referred to another committee.

Stricken. Legislation removed from a committee's docket, frequently at the request of the patron.

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