School principals; incident reports, written threats against school personnel, etc.
Summary
School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan. This bill is identical to SB 36.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Apr 2022
Senate Passage
Apr 2022
Signed into Law
May 2022
Introduced Dec 6, 2021
Signed May 27, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Feb 21, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 1, 2022
How they voted
23–10
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 21, 2022
D
Democratic17
58% Nay
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
48
Key actions
14
Committee
8
Amendments
4
May 27, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 793 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Apr 27, 2022
Executive · Passed
Governor's recommendation adopted in-part
executive
Apr 27, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Apr 27, 2022
Upper · Passed
Amendment #1 passed by for the day
upper
Apr 27, 2022
Lower · Passed
House concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (88-Y 12-N)
lower
Apr 27, 2022
Lower · Passed
House concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 (57-Y 43-N)
lower
Feb 23, 2022
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (65-Y 34-N)
lower
Feb 21, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendments (27-Y 13-N)
upper
Feb 21, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 21, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Feb 21, 2022
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Feb 17, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with amendments (10-Y 5-N)
upper
Feb 2, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 1, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (59-Y 40-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2022
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB4H1
lower
Jan 31, 2022
Amended
Amendment by Delegate Rasoul rejected (47-Y 51-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2022
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 22105170D-H1
lower
Jan 26, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N)
lower
Jan 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Dec 6, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Dec 6, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102790D
lower
1 primary · 40 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Scott Wyatt
RRepublican
Co
Amanda Batten
RRepublican
Co
Anne Ferrell Tata
RRepublican
Co
Bill Wiley
RRepublican
Co
Buddy Fowler
RRepublican
Co
Chris Head
RRepublican
Co
Chris Runion
RRepublican
Co
Ellen Campbell
RRepublican
Co
Emily Jordan
RRepublican
Co
Glenn R. Davis
RRepublican
Co
Israel O'Quinn
RRepublican
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