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Bill Alternatives to suspension; Board of Education shall establish guidelines for local school boards. Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 SB 829 Virginia SB 829 (2017)
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Virginia SB 829 (2017) — Alternatives to suspension; Board of Education shall establish guidelines for local school boards.

Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB829ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100600D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Education — 211 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Education and Health — 150 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House — 8513 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 390 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Jennifer T. Wexton — primary (person)
  • Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2016-11-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100600D introduction
  • 2016-11-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2017-01-18 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2017-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-02-08 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-02-08 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2017-02-14 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-02-15 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-15 Passed House (85-Y 13-N) passage
  • 2017-02-17 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-17 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-02-20 Signed by President
  • 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
  • 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
  • 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 303 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44836dfc-c068-4cd3-b3e9-1b27a1fabe8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).