Department of Education; school boards; studentonline activity; data collection, monitoring, and restrictions.Requires the Department of Education to establish, and each schoolboard to adhere to, (i) requirements relating to the collection ofdata on student online activity and the monitoring of student onlineactivity by school boards and school board employees, including requirementsto disclose to the parents of enrolled students what student onlineactivity is tracked and monitored on school or personal devices onschool property and what data on student online activity is beingcollected on school or personal devices and (ii) a requirement toset the most restrictive age-appropriate limits on student accessto social media platforms, YouTube and other video platforms, andsearch engines and other search features on school devices and permitthe parents of each enrolled student to waive such limits for theirchild by submitting a written request to the school division. Thebill also requires the Department to establish and distribute toeach school board a template that each such school board is requiredto use to (a) make certain disclosures to the parents of enrolled students relating to student online activity tracking or monitoringand the collection of data on such activity and (b) permit the parentsof each enrolled student to opt their child out of any such tracking,monitoring, or collection.
Del. Delores Oates
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K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other school that is a member of the Virginia High School League, or by a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on the biological sex of the students who participate on the team or in the sport: (i) males, men, or boys; (ii) females, women, or girls; or (iii) coed or mixed if participation on such team or sport is open to both males and females. The bill prohibits any such team or sport that is expressly designated for females from being open to students whose biological sex is male. The bill also provides that in the event of a dispute as to the biological sex of any student seeking to participate on any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is expressly designated for males or females, such student may establish biological sex by presenting to the school or institution a signed physician's statement that attests to such student's biological sex based solely on (a) the student's internal and external reproductive anatomy; (b) the student's normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone; and (c) an analysis of the student's genetic makeup. The bill prohibits any government entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association or organization from entertaining a complaint, opening an investigation, or taking any other adverse action against any such school or institution of higher education based on a violation of the provisions of the bill and creates a cause of action for any school or institution of higher education that suffers harm as a result of a violation of the bill. Finally, the bill creates a civil cause of action for any student who suffers harm as a result of a knowing violation of a provision of the bill by a school or institution or as a result of the student's reporting a violation of a provision of the bill by a school, institution, athletic association, or organization.
Commonwealth information security requirements. Requires state public bodies, defined in the bill, to (i) comply with the Commonwealth's security policies and standards, (ii) ensure each of their employees completes information security training, (iii) conduct regular security audits, (iv) report the results of such audits to the appropriate entity, and (v) implement security monitoring and enter into memoranda of understanding with the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth for sharing information with the Commonwealth's central information security systems. The bill directs the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth to (a) publish and maintain a list of the Commonwealth's security policies and standards with which state public bodies are required to comply, (b) ensure that transition meetings with state public bodies occur, and (c) document such transitions and any exemptions from the requirements of the bill.
Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
Human trafficking investigators; licensing bythe Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Departmentof Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for humantrafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traffickinginvestigator is a private investigator who is GSA compliant and engagesin the business of, or accepts employment to make, investigationsto obtain information on sex trafficking or severe forms of traffickingas defined in the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000and in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation.Allows a county, city, or town, in its discretion, to delay implementingan unfunded mandate until the next fiscal year after the fiscal yearin which any unfunded mandate became effective. The locality shalldo so by ordinance that states with specificity the unfunded mandatethat the locality seeks to delay implementing and the date on whichthe unfunded mandate shall become effective after the delay. The bill defines "unfunded mandate" as an act that imposes on a localitythe responsibility of providing funding for new programs or increasedlevels of service under existing programs and for which the Commonwealthdoes not provide sufficient funding to cover the required costs of such new programs or increased services, whether by appropriationor other means.
Board of Housing and Community Development;Uniform Statewide Building Code; local building officials. Requiresthe Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the UniformStatewide Building Code and corresponding regulations to remove anyauthority for local building departments to appoint local buildingofficials for permanent terms. The bill requires the Board to requirelocal building departments to appoint such officials for a term notto exceed 10 years and to only reappoint such officials after holdinga performance evaluation.
Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.