School safety audits; law-enforcement officers.
Summary
School safety audits; law-enforcement officers. Requires each local school board to require its schools to fullycollaborate with the chief law-enforcement officer of the localityor his designee when conducting required school safety audits. Undercurrent law, the division superintendent is required to make theresults of such audits available to the chief law-enforcement officerupon request, and his approval is not needed. The bill also requires that the completed walk-through checklist using the standardizedchecklist provided by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safetybe made available to the chief law-enforcement officer of the localityor his designee. Current law requires that the completed walk-throughchecklist be made available to the chief law-enforcement officeror his designee upon request.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Feb 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Feb 2022
Signed into Law
Mar 2022
Introduced Jan 12, 2022
Signed Mar 11, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Feb 28, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2022
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 28, 2022
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
28
Key actions
8
Committee
8
Amendments
1
Mar 11, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 22 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Feb 28, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 24, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 10, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1129E
lower
Feb 10, 2022
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 7, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 1, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 1, 2022
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 28, 2022
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12
lower
Jan 12, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 12, 2022
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 22103760D
lower
1 primary · 14 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kim Taylor
RRepublican
Co
A.C. Cordoza
RRepublican
Co
Bill Wiley
RRepublican
Co
Buddy Fowler
RRepublican
Co
Chris Head
RRepublican
Co
Danny Marshall
RRepublican
Co
Emily Jordan
RRepublican
Co
Kathy J. Byron
RRepublican
Co
Keith Hodges
RRepublican
Co
Matt Fariss
RRepublican
Co
Mike Cherry
RRepublican
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