Public schools; lock-down drills, annual requirement.
Summary
Public schools; lock-down drills; annual requirement. Reduces from three to two the minimum number of mandatory annuallock-down drills in each public elementary and secondary school inthe Commonwealth.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Feb 2021
Introduced Jan 11, 2021
Signed Feb 25, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 15, 2021 · House of Delegates Jan 28, 2021
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 15, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
6
Committee
6
Feb 25, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 26 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 15, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 29, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 28, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 19, 2021
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101496D
lower
1 primary · 6 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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