Commending the Honorable Jennifer Wexton.
Sponsored bills
Celebrating the life of Everett Earl Walle,Jr.
Commending Claudia Flores.
Celebrating the life of Commander Edward S.Stolle, Jr., USN, Ret.
Celebrating the life of John Oliver Wynne.
Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Commending Major General Timothy P. Williams,VNG.
Veterans and active duty members of the ArmedForces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local schoolboard to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the ArmedForces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs asa teacher in the local school division credit for any time servedin any such forces in determining such teacher's step on the localschool division's teacher salary scale.
Public school staffing ratios; school counselors; specialized student support positions. Decreases from one to325 to one to 250 the ratio of full-time equivalent school counselorsrequired to be employed by each local school board per student enrolledin the local school division. The bill also increases the numberof specialized student support positions required to be employedby each local school board from at least three to at least four suchpositions per 1,000 students in the local school division. Such specializedstudent support positions include school social workers, school psychologists,school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavioranalysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions. This bill was incorporated into SB 105.
Commending John Ray Grisham, Jr.