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| Bill | Public middle schools; physical education to include personal safety training. | Physical education; personal safety training. Requires any physical education class offered to students in grades seven and eight to include at least one hour of personal safety training per school year in each such grade level that is developed and delivered in partnership with the local law-enforcement agency and consists of situational safety awareness training, social media education, and self-defense tactics training. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | HB 1215 | Virginia HB 1215 (2022) |
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Virginia HB 1215 (2022) — Public middle schools; physical education to include personal safety training.
Physical education; personal safety training. Requires any physical education class offered to students in grades seven and eight to include at least one hour of personal safety training per school year in each such grade level that is developed and delivered in partnership with the local law-enforcement agency and consists of situational safety awareness training, social media education, and self-defense tactics training.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0168 (committee substitute) — source
- HB1215ER (committee substitute) — source
- Presented and ordered printed 22104704D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 22104704D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments (35-Y 4-N) — 35–4 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education with amendment(s) (19-Y 0-N) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Margaret B. Ransone — primary (person)
- G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
- Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-18 Presented and ordered printed 22104704D
introduction - 2022-01-18 Referred to Committee on Education
referral-committee - 2022-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB1215)
- 2022-01-31 Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
referral-committee - 2022-02-02 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-07 Reported from Education with amendment(s) (19-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-09 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-10 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2022-02-10 Engrossed by House as amended HB1215E
- 2022-02-10 Printed as engrossed 22104704D-E
- 2022-02-11 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-11 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2022-02-14 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2022-02-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB1215E)
- 2022-03-03 Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
- 2022-03-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-08 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-08 Reading of amendments waived
- 2022-03-08 Amendments by Senator Cosgrove agreed to
amendment-passage - 2022-03-08 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2022-03-08 Passed Senate with amendments (35-Y 4-N)
passage - 2022-03-09 Senate amendments agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-09 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled
- 2022-03-11 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-11 Signed by President
- 2022-03-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB1215ER)
- 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 168 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/059c11c1-0ea5-4504-b933-d450f14e4bc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).