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Bill School bus drivers; critical shortages. School bus drivers; critical shortages. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the assistance of each school board or division superintendent, to survey each local school division to identify critical shortages of school bus drivers by geographic area and local school division and to report any such critical shortage to each local school division and to the Virginia Retirement System. The bill permits any school bus driver hired by a local school board in any geographic area or school division in which a critical shortage of school bus drivers has been so identified to elect to continue to receive a service retirement allowance during such employment if the driver meets certain other conditions. This bill is identical to HB 351. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 SB 324 Virginia SB 324 (2020)
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Virginia SB 324 (2020) — School bus drivers; critical shortages.

School bus drivers; critical shortages. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the assistance of each school board or division superintendent, to survey each local school division to identify critical shortages of school bus drivers by geographic area and local school division and to report any such critical shortage to each local school division and to the Virginia Retirement System. The bill permits any school bus driver hired by a local school board in any geographic area or school division in which a critical shortage of school bus drivers has been so identified to elect to continue to receive a service retirement allowance during such employment if the driver meets certain other conditions. This bill is identical to HB 351.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB324ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from DPB (SB324) (committee substitute) — source
  4. Impact statement from DPB (SB324S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 970 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 160 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
  • Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104144D introduction
  • 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2020-01-14 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (SB324)
  • 2020-01-23 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-01-23 Committee substitute printed 20105270D-S1 substitution
  • 2020-01-23 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2020-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB324S1)
  • 2020-02-04 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-06 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-02-06 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2020-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 20105270D-S1
  • 2020-02-06 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB324S1
  • 2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2020-02-17 Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-17 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2020-02-18 Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government referral-committee
  • 2020-02-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-28 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-03-03 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-03-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2020-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-03-07 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-07 Signed by President
  • 2020-03-08 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-03-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB324ER)
  • 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
  • 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 2020-03-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 437 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f12536cd-4c19-4a8d-8911-dcf57195c4e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).