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Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the purpose of addressing school discipline issues and promoting evidence-based restorative practices, as that term is defined in the bill, in public schools in the Commonwealth by awarding grants to a school division in each superintendent's region in the Commonwealth to be used in developing and implementing a comprehensive plan to integrate evidence-based restorative practices in such school divisions in accordance with the provisions of the bill. The bill directs the Department to (i) develop the application process by which a school board may apply to receive funds pursuant to the Program; (ii) establish criteria for the selection and award of grants pursuant to the Program; and (iii) develop a process for evaluating the progress and performance of each school division selected to receive a grant pursuant to the Program in implementing such evidence-based restorative practices and satisfying the Program requirements set forth in the bill. The bill requires any such school division to (a) establish a learning collaborative for the purpose of developing a comprehensive plan for implementing evidence-based restorative practices in accordance with the provisions of the bill and (b) submit to the Department by July 1 of each year immediately following any year for which it receives a grant a report on its progress in implementing such evidence-based restorative practices for the preceding school year. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
Introduced
Jan 7, 2025
Last Action
Feb 14, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 18 co
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2196)
Committee substitute printed 25107248D-S1
Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)
Education Substitute agreed to
Read second time
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
Read first time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2196)
Committee substitute printed 25105134D-H1
Reported from Education with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2196)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104246D
Referred to Committee on Education
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Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)
Delores L. McQuinn
Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Nadarius E. Clark
Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Michael B. Feggans
C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Michael J. Jones
Candi Mundon King
Marcia S. "Cia" Price
Holly M. Seibold
Jennifer B. Boysko
Barbara A. Favola