HB 1279 Virginia House of Delegates · 2024 Regular Session

School health entrance form; Departments of Education and Health to streamline.

Summary
Department of Education and Department of Health;school health entrance form; review. Requires the Department ofEducation and the Department of Health to (i) examine the Departmentof Health's COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL HEALTH ENTRANCE FORM:Health Information Form/Comprehensive Physical Examination Report/Certificationof Immunization to determine whether such form can be streamlinedand made more user-friendly for families, physicians, and other healthcare professionals while continuing to gather all of the informationthat is necessary to comply with relevant state laws relating to student health and immunization and school attendance and (ii) reporttheir findings and any associated recommendations to the GeneralAssembly no later than November 1, 2024.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
Signed into Law
Apr 2024
Introduced Jan 10, 2024 Signed Apr 4, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Mar 4, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 13, 2024

How they voted

39–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Mar 4, 2024
D Democratic21
20 Yea 1
95% Yea
R Republican19
19 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
37
Key actions
13
Committee
8
Amendments
4
Apr 4, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 478 (effective 7/1/24)
executive
Mar 26, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 25, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 25, 2024
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1279ER)
lower
Mar 5, 2024
Lower · Passed
Senate amendment agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
lower
Mar 4, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 4, 2024
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 4, 2024
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Mar 4, 2024
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Feb 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 26, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Feb 21, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 1, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 10, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Cliff Hayes
Cliff Hayes
DDemocratic
VA
91