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type: "Bill"
title: "School safety procedures; emergency situations, annual training."
description: "Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each student and employee in each school at least once each school year. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1215"
citation: "Virginia SB 1215 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen D. Newman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-04"
last_action: "2019-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb49a02b-868c-42b4-9722-a429422a27f7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1215"
source_hash: "83528e5f43ce5f4bc2cd57d6e08303717d733c51509468f8fac370d441731c43"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 1215 (2019) — School safety procedures; emergency situations, annual training.
Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each student and employee in each school at least once each school year. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0061)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1215ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1215ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19104489D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1215S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102334D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1215)
## Votes
- Reported from Education — **220** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **350** (pass) · upper
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Stephen D. Newman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102334D `introduction`
- **2019-01-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-14** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-01-14** Committee substitute agreed to 19104489D-S1
- **2019-01-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1215S1
- **2019-01-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-18** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-08** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-11** Enrolled
- **2019-02-11** Signed by President
- **2019-02-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
- **2019-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 61 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb49a02b-868c-42b4-9722-a429422a27f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).