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Bill School principals; incident reports. School principals; incident reports. Eliminates the requirement that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense. This bill is identical to HB 257. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 SB 729 Virginia SB 729 (2020)
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Virginia SB 729 (2020) — School principals; incident reports.

School principals; incident reports. Eliminates the requirement that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense. This bill is identical to HB 257.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0173) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB729ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from DPB (SB729) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 3-N 1-A) — 103 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 370 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (65-Y 33-N) — 6433 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) — 175 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) — 2416 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
  • T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102123D introduction
  • 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2020-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB729)
  • 2020-01-27 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2020-02-06 Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 3-N 1-A) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-10 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-14 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-14 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2020-02-17 Reported from Education (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-19 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-02-20 Passed House (65-Y 33-N) passage
  • 2020-02-20 VOTE: Passage (65-Y 33-N)
  • 2020-02-24 Enrolled
  • 2020-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB729ER)
  • 2020-02-24 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-02-25 Signed by President
  • 2020-02-28 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 28, 2020
  • 2020-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 6, 2020
  • 2020-03-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 173 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25272fa7-7317-47de-abf4-73b8e9c8fa66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).