Annual school safety audits; items to be reviewed.
Summary
Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety;school safety audit; requirements. Requires the Virginia Centerfor School and Campus Safety to include in the list of items to bereviewed and evaluated in school safety audits and each school boardto require all schools under its supervision to review and evaluatein their annual school safety audits information relating to thetype of school security technology utilized in each public schoolbuilding in the applicable school division, including informationrelating to the specific types of technology systems and the age of such systems.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
Signed into Law
Apr 2024
Introduced Jan 9, 2024
Signed Apr 4, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Mar 4, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 13, 2024
How they voted
39–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Mar 4, 2024
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
36
Key actions
12
Committee
12
Apr 4, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 429 (effective 7/1/24)
executive
Mar 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB561ER)
lower
Mar 4, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 21, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 1, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 29, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2024
Committee
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 24, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Committee
Assigned CT & I sub: Technology and Innovation
lower
Jan 9, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
lower
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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