Internet Safety Advisory Council; established, sunset date, report.
Summary
Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students and teachers in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 31, 2023. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2024.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Apr 2022
Senate Passage
Apr 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 12, 2022
Signed Apr 27, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 7, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2022
How they voted
31–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 33
Mar 7, 2022
D
Democratic17
88% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
47
Key actions
14
Committee
10
Amendments
3
Apr 27, 2022
Executive · Passed
Governor's recommendation adopted
executive
Apr 27, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (27-Y 13-N)
upper
Apr 27, 2022
Lower · Passed
House concurred in Governor's recommendation (59-Y 41-N)
lower
Mar 9, 2022
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (54-Y 44-N)
lower
Mar 8, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 8, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 8, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Mar 8, 2022
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (31-0-2)
senate
Mar 4, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Feb 24, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Feb 22, 2022
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 14, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Passed House (60-Y 39-N)
lower
Feb 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (60-Y 39-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (18-Y 4-N)
lower
Feb 1, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2022
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12
lower
Jan 12, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 12, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103266D
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
LG
Liz Guzmán
DDemocratic
Co
Kaye Kory
DDemocratic
Co
Nadarius Clark
DDemocratic
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