republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-36.md

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Bill	School principals; incident reports, written threats against school personnel, etc.	School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan. This bill incorporates SB 2, SB 287, and SB 613 and is identical to HB 4.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 36	Virginia SB 36 (2022)	bill		enacted	Thomas K. Norment, Jr.	6	51	9	2021-12-27	2022-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/bc531aa9-df93-437d-8893-ca02d84e906e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB36	f59b1c015ba5705fe68ae5ba74c9ac0ec702f211c70466a9c00430529b983362	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 36 (2022) — School principals; incident reports, written threats against school personnel, etc.

School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan. This bill incorporates SB 2, SB 287, and SB 613 and is identical to HB 4.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0794 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22106441D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100573D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB36ER (committee substitute) — source
5. SB36ER2 (committee substitute) — source
6. SB36ES1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate rejected Governor's recommendation #1 (19-Y 21-N) — 19–21 (fail) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — 9–6 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education (18-Y 4-N) — 18–4 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (66-Y 33-N) — 65–33 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (86-Y 13-N) — 85–13 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (26-Y 14-N) — 26–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Thomas K. Norment, Jr. — primary (person)
• Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)
• Bryce E. Reeves — cosponsor (person)
• David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
• Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer A. Kiggans — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mark J. Peake — cosponsor (person)
• William M. Stanley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-12-27 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100573D introduction
• 2021-12-27 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2022-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB36)
• 2022-02-01 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2022-02-10 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-10 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-10 Committee substitute printed 22106441D-S1 substitution
• 2022-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2022-02-15 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-02-15 Committee substitute agreed to 22106441D-S1
• 2022-02-15 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-02-15 Amendment #1 by Senator Norment rejected amendment-failure
• 2022-02-15 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-02-15 Amendment #2 by Senator Norment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2022-02-15 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-02-15 Amendment #3 by Senator Norment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2022-02-15 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB36ES1
• 2022-02-15 Printed as engrossed 22106441D-ES1
• 2022-02-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-15 Passed Senate (26-Y 14-N) passage
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Reported from Education (18-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-28 Passed House (66-Y 33-N) passage
• 2022-02-28 VOTE: Passage (66-Y 33-N)
• 2022-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (SB36ES1)
• 2022-03-02 Enrolled
• 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB36ER)
• 2022-03-03 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
• 2022-04-27 Senate rejected Governor's recommendation #1 (19-Y 21-N)
• 2022-04-27 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 House concurred in Governor's recommendation #2 (86-Y 13-N)
• 2022-04-27 VOTE: Adoption (86-Y 13-N)
• 2022-04-27 Governor's recommendation adopted in-part.
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled bill text (SB36ER2)
• 2022-04-27 Signed by President as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
• 2022-04-27 Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
• 2022-04-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
• 2022-05-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 794 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc531aa9-df93-437d-8893-ca02d84e906e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).