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
Senate Passage
Feb 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Signed into Law
Mar 2022
Introduced Jan 12, 2022
Signed Mar 11, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Feb 8, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 28, 2022
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 8, 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
29
Key actions
7
Committee
7
Amendments
2
Mar 11, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Feb 28, 2022
Lower · Passed
Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 23, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 21, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Feb 8, 2022
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 7, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended SB600E
upper
Feb 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Feb 7, 2022
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Feb 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 27, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Jan 19, 2022
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 12, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 12, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103761D
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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