School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments.
Summary
School building evacuation plans, policies,and protocols; students with mobility impairments. Requires anydivisionwide or public elementary or secondary school-specific schoolbuilding evacuation plan, policy, or protocol to include provisionsthat seek to maximize the opportunity for students with mobilityimpairments to evacuate the school building alongside their non-mobility-impairedpeers.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
Signed into Law
Mar 2024
Introduced Jan 8, 2024
Signed Mar 28, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Feb 26, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 6, 2024
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 26, 2024
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
26
Key actions
10
Committee
7
Mar 28, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 194 (effective 7/1/24)
executive
Mar 3, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB501ER)
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 22, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 7, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 30, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 8, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Laura Jane Cohen
DDemocratic
Co
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
DDemocratic
Co
Irene Shin
DDemocratic
Co
Rod Willett
DDemocratic
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