Sexually explicit content; policies on parental notification of instructional material.
Summary
Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school. This bill is identical to SB 235.
Bill status
vetoed
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
Vetoed
Mar 2024
Introduced Jan 9, 2024
Vetoed Mar 14, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Feb 26, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 13, 2024
How they voted
21–18
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Feb 26, 2024
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
94% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
25
Key actions
9
Committee
6
Apr 17, 2024
Vetoed
House sustained Governor's veto
lower
Mar 14, 2024
Vetoed
Vetoed by Governor
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 (HB571ER)
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
upper
Feb 22, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Passage (55-Y 40-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 40-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (14-Y 8-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Committee
Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 9, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 12 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Karrie Delaney
DDemocratic
Co
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Irene Shin
DDemocratic
Co
Josh Thomas
DDemocratic
Co
Kelly Fowler
DDemocratic
Co
Marcus Simon
DDemocratic
Co
Marty Martinez
DDemocratic
Co
Michael Feggans
DDemocratic
Co
Nadarius Clark
DDemocratic
Co
Rod Willett
DDemocratic
Co
Sam Rasoul
DDemocratic
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