Public schools; lock-down drills, notice to parents.
Summary
Public schools; lock-down drills; notice toparents. Requires every public school to provide the parentsof enrolled students with at least 24 hours' notice before the schoolconducts any lock-down drill. The bill specifies that no such noticeis required to include the exact date and time of the lock-down drill.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Dec 30, 2019
Signed Mar 18, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Mar 18, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 378 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 20, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 29, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 20, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Dec 30, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Dec 30, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102057D
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Schuyler VanValkenburg
DDemocratic
Co
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Mark L. Keam
DDemocratic
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