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Bill Public high schools; SOL curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction. Public high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or health education instruction provided to students in grade nine or 10. The bill requires such hazing prevention instruction to include age-appropriate, extensive, and current education about hazing, including (i) examples of hazing; (ii) the dangers of hazing, including the consequences of alcohol intoxication; and (iii) school policies and laws related to hazing, including criminal penalties and bystander intervention. The bill requires such research-based hazing prevention instruction to be offered in-person but requires each school board to provide options for virtual participation for any student who is enrolled in an online or virtual physical or health education program. Finally, the bill requires each school board to provide such research-based hazing prevention instruction beginning with the school year following the Board's adoption of revised Standards of Learning for physical and health education for grades nine and 10 incorporating such research-based hazing prevention instruction and directs the Board to, in the intermediary time, develop and post on its website guidance documents for the purpose of making such research-based hazing prevention instruction available to local school boards. This bill is identical to HB 719. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2024 SB 379 Virginia SB 379 (2024)
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Virginia SB 379 (2024) — Public high schools; SOL curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction.

Public high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or health education instruction provided to students in grade nine or 10. The bill requires such hazing prevention instruction to include age-appropriate, extensive, and current education about hazing, including (i) examples of hazing; (ii) the dangers of hazing, including the consequences of alcohol intoxication; and (iii) school policies and laws related to hazing, including criminal penalties and bystander intervention. The bill requires such research-based hazing prevention instruction to be offered in-person but requires each school board to provide options for virtual participation for any student who is enrolled in an online or virtual physical or health education program. Finally, the bill requires each school board to provide such research-based hazing prevention instruction beginning with the school year following the Board's adoption of revised Standards of Learning for physical and health education for grades nine and 10 incorporating such research-based hazing prevention instruction and directs the Board to, in the intermediary time, develop and post on its website guidance documents for the purpose of making such research-based hazing prevention instruction available to local school boards. This bill is identical to HB 719.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0007 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 24106241D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104596D (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB379ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (56-Y 44-N) — 5544 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Education (12-Y 9-N) — 129 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
  • Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
  • Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
  • Stella G. Pekarsky — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104596D filing, introduction
  • 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
  • 2024-01-24 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education referral-committee
  • 2024-01-25 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2024-02-01 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-01 Committee substitute printed 24106241D-S1 substitution
  • 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-05 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24106241D-S1 substitution
  • 2024-02-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB379S1 substitution
  • 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
  • 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
  • 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
  • 2024-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB379S1)
  • 2024-02-14 Reported from Education (12-Y 9-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-16 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
  • 2024-02-19 Passed House (56-Y 44-N) passage
  • 2024-02-19 VOTE: Passage (56-Y 44-N) passage
  • 2024-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2024-02-21 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB379ER) passage
  • 2024-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB379ER)
  • 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
  • 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled
  • 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
  • 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 7 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
  • 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/afc55567-76b3-413d-864b-289bc58ea688. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).