School safety procedures; emergency situations, annual training.
Summary
Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each student and employee in each school at least once each school year. This bill is identical to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Feb 2019
Introduced Jan 4, 2019
Signed Feb 19, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jan 15, 2019 · House of Delegates Feb 6, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Jan 15, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
6
Committee
4
Feb 19, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 61 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 8, 2019
Lower · Passed
Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2019
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (21-0)
house of delegates
Jan 18, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 15, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Jan 14, 2019
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1215S1
upper
Jan 14, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19104489D-S1
upper
Jan 4, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 4, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102334D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
SN
Steve Newman
RRepublican
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