School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household.
Summary
School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in relevant law, present in the household and (ii) the parent's legal responsibility to safely store any firearm present in the household. The bill requires each school board to make such parental notification available in multiple languages on its website. This bill is identical to SB 1048.
Bill status
vetoed
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
Vetoed
May 2025
Introduced Jan 3, 2025
Vetoed May 2, 2025
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Feb 15, 2025
MINOR
The bill progressed from introduction to enrolled status, meaning it was approved by both legislative chambers and signed into law. The substantive policy content remained unchanged throughout the legislative process. The enrolled version includes standard formatting elements like page numbers, chapter headers, and approval stamps that were not present in the introduced draft.
Scope change
No substantive change to scope or applicability; the bill's provisions remain identical to the introduced version.
TECHNICAL
Added standard enrolled bill formatting including page numbers, chapter headers, and approval stamps that are required for final legislation but do not affect policy content.
Floor votes · Senate Feb 7, 2025 · House of Delegates Jan 21, 2025
How they voted
38–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 40
Feb 7, 2025
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
89% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
28
Key actions
9
Committee
6
May 2, 2025
Vetoed
Vetoed by Governor
executive
Mar 24, 2025
Vetoed
Governor's recommendation received by House
executive
Feb 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1678ER)
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
upper
Feb 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 6, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 41-N)
lower
Jan 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (14-Y 7-N)
lower
Jan 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 10, 2025
Committee
Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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