School crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans; development and review.
Summary
Requires each school board to include the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief of the emergency medical services agency, the executive director of the relevant regional emergency medical services council, and the emergency management official of the locality, or their designees, in the development and review of school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Under current law, the school board is required to provide copies of such plans to the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief of the emergency medical services agency, and the emergency management official of the locality but is not required to include such first responders in the development and review of such plans. This bill is identical to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2018
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Feb 2019
Introduced Dec 19, 2018
Signed Feb 22, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 8, 2019
How they voted
37–0
Passed
Total votes 37
Feb 8, 2019
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Amendments
1
Feb 22, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 141 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 8, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (37-0)
senate
Feb 1, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 31, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 30, 2019
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1737E
lower
Jan 30, 2019
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Jan 15, 2019
Committee
Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Dec 19, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
lower
Dec 19, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100652D
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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