School principals; incident reports.
Summary
School principals; incident reports. Eliminates the requirement that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense. This bill is identical to HB 257.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Mar 6, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 11, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 20, 2020
How they voted
24–16
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 11, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
84% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
23
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Mar 6, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 20, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed House (65-Y 33-N)
lower
Feb 17, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N)
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Feb 11, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N)
upper
Feb 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 3-N 1-A)
upper
Jan 27, 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 20102123D
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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