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SB 235STATE · VirginiaIntroduced

Sexually explicit content; policies on parental notification of instructional material.

Voted 4/17/2024

Summary

Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school. This bill is identical to HB 571.

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Bill text

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Roll-call record

How representatives voted

153 yea·96 nay·5 other

Docket history

Action history

  1. 4/17/2024Passed in enrolled form rejected (22-Y 18-N)
  2. 4/17/2024Requires 2/3 members present
  3. 3/9/2024Passed by for the day
  4. 3/8/2024Vetoed by Governor
  5. 3/1/2024Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024
  6. 3/1/2024Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024
  7. 2/24/2024Signed by President
  8. 2/23/2024Impact statement from DPB (SB235ER)
  9. 2/21/2024Enrolled
  10. 2/21/2024Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB235ER)