Public school buildings; school board shall maintain water mgmt. program to prevent Legionnaires'.
Summary
Public school buildings; testing for Legionellabacteria; review; report. Requires each school board to testeach public school building in the local school division for thepresence of Legionella bacteria at such regular intervals as theschool board deems necessary to maintain the health and decency ofsuch buildings. The bill requires the Department of Education tomake recommendations for the frequency of testing for the presence of Legionella bacteria in public school buildings and to notifyeach local school board of its recommendations no later than September1, 2020. The bill also requires each public elementary and secondaryschool to maintain files of its Legionella bacteria test resultsand make such files available for review and the division superintendentto report such results to the Department of Health.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Apr 7, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 11, 2020 · House of Delegates Mar 4, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 11, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
45
Key actions
16
Committee
19
Amendments
2
Apr 7, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 776 (effective - see bill)
executive
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed House with amendments (88-Y 9-N)
lower
Mar 4, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Mar 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee on Appropriations amendments agreed to
lower
Mar 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee on Education amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 26, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 19, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Feb 19, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 5-N)
lower
Feb 19, 2020
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
lower
Feb 17, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Feb 17, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Feb 11, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB410S1
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20106036D-S1
upper
Feb 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 30, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Jan 30, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 20, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104248D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Ghazala Hashmi
DDemocratic
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