SB 1545 Virginia Senate · 2019 Regular Session

Public schools; alternative accountability process.

Summary
Allows a school board to adopt an alternative accountability process to provide a principal and parties involved in an incident involving assault or assault and battery without bodily injury that occurs on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored event an option to enter into a mutually agreed upon process between the involved parties as an alternative to reporting such incident to law enforcement. The bill provides that a principal in a school division with such an alternative accountability process may attempt to engage the parties involved in such an incident in the process prior to reporting such incident to the local law-enforcement agency and prohibits, if provided for by the school board, a principal from reporting a party who successfully completes the alternative accountability process.
Bill status in committee 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 8, 2019 Last action Feb 12, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jan 29, 2019

How they voted

40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Jan 29, 2019
D Democratic19
19 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican21
21 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
12
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Feb 12, 2019
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Feb 4, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 29, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (40-0)
senate
Jan 28, 2019
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1545S1
upper
Jan 28, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19105747D-S1
upper
Jan 16, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 8, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 8, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103322D
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors

Sponsors