Public schools; fire drills, timing and frequency.
Summary
Public schools; fire drills; timing and frequency. Requires the first of the two fire drills required during the first20 days of each public school session to be conducted during thefirst 10 days of such school session. The bill also requires everypublic school to hold additional fire drills during the remainderof such school session as required by the Statewide Fire PreventionCode, which currently requires such additional fire drills to be conducted on a monthly basis. Current law requires at least two additionalfire drills to be conducted during the remainder of the public schoolsession after the two fire drills required during the first 20 daysof each such school session.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2023
Committee Review
Mar 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
Signed into Law
Apr 2024
Introduced Dec 22, 2023
Signed Apr 4, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Mar 4, 2024 · House of Delegates Jan 23, 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
50
Key actions
14
Committee
12
Apr 4, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 432 (effective 7/1/24)
executive
Mar 26, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 25, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 25, 2024
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB66ER)
lower
Mar 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
lower
Mar 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 8, 2024
Legislature · Passed
Amended by conference committee
legislature
Mar 6, 2024
Committee
Senate requested conference committee
upper
Mar 4, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Feb 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 24, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 17, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 16, 2024
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 15, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12
lower
Dec 22, 2023
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Ellen McLaughlin
RRepublican
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