Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks.
Summary
Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the share of teachers that are provided each working day a lunch break of at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties.
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
Mar 2024
Introduced Jan 9, 2024
Signed Mar 28, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Mar 5, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 13, 2024
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Mar 5, 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
33
Key actions
12
Committee
7
Mar 28, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (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 (HB583ER)
lower
Mar 5, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N)
upper
Mar 5, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed by temporarily
upper
Mar 4, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 1-N)
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: Passage (97-Y 1-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (17-Y 5-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
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
Shelly Simonds
DDemocratic
Co
Amy Laufer
DDemocratic
Co
Bonita Anthony
DDemocratic
Co
Destiny LeVere Bolling
DDemocratic
Co
Irene Shin
DDemocratic
Co
J.R. Henson
DDemocratic
Co
Josh Cole
DDemocratic
Co
Josh Thomas
DDemocratic
Co
Karen Keys-Gamarra
DDemocratic
Co
Laura Jane Cohen
DDemocratic
Co
Marty Martinez
DDemocratic
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