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| Bill | School board employees; discipline, private reprimand. | Requires the Board of Education to include, in its regulations that prescribe the requirements for the licensure of teachers and other school personnel required to hold a license, procedures for the a written reprimand of such license holders. The bill permits the Board of Education to issue written reprimand to any such license holder who knowingly and willfully commits a certain enumerated act relating to secure mandatory tests administered to students. The only express disciplinary actions that are permissible under current law in such a scenario are suspension or revocation of such individual's license. The bill also permits a school board or division superintendent to issue a written reprimand to a teacher who breaches his employment contract after the school board or division superintendent declines to grant such teacher's request for release from such contract on the grounds of insufficient or unjustifiable cause. The only express disciplinary action that is permissible under current law in such a scenario is revocation of such teacher's license. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | HB 2325 | Virginia HB 2325 (2019) |
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Virginia HB 2325 (2019) — School board employees; discipline, private reprimand.
Requires the Board of Education to include, in its regulations that prescribe the requirements for the licensure of teachers and other school personnel required to hold a license, procedures for the a written reprimand of such license holders. The bill permits the Board of Education to issue written reprimand to any such license holder who knowingly and willfully commits a certain enumerated act relating to secure mandatory tests administered to students. The only express disciplinary actions that are permissible under current law in such a scenario are suspension or revocation of such individual's license. The bill also permits a school board or division superintendent to issue a written reprimand to a teacher who breaches his employment contract after the school board or division superintendent declines to grant such teacher's request for release from such contract on the grounds of insufficient or unjustifiable cause. The only express disciplinary action that is permissible under current law in such a scenario is revocation of such teacher's license.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) (committee substitute) — source
- House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2325ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101302D (committee substitute) — source
- House: Printed as engrossed 19101302D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Education with amendments — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 7–2 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 95–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — primary (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher P. Stolle — cosponsor (person)
- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101302D
introduction - 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2019-01-18 Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2019-01-30 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-01-31 Read second time
reading-2 - 2019-01-31 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2019-01-31 Engrossed by House as amended HB2325E
- 2019-01-31 Printed as engrossed 19101302D-E
- 2019-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2019-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2019-02-04 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2019-02-06 Assigned Education sub: Public Education
referral-committee - 2019-02-18 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-21 Enrolled
- 2019-02-21 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-02-21 Signed by President
- 2019-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- 2019-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 587 (effective 7/1/19)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ff7a0c0-eebd-421e-a60b-b18ace84f3f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).