Public schools; equal access, education employee associations, etc.
Summary
Requires school boards to adopt and implement policies to ensure that employees have equal access to education employee associations. The bill requires (i) the Department of Education to identify each education employee association operating in the Commonwealth and provide a list of such education employee associations to school boards and (ii) school boards to provide to each employee such list of available employee education associations and post such list on the school division website.
Bill status
in committee
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 5, 2019
Last action Feb 1, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jan 18, 2019
How they voted
32–0
Passed
Total votes 32
Jan 18, 2019
D
Democratic13
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
12
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Feb 1, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 24, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 21, 2019
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1236S1
upper
Jan 21, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19105048D-S1
upper
Jan 18, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (32-0)
senate
Jan 9, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 5, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 5, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101538D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Bill DeSteph
RRepublican
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