The Virginia House Committee on Education advanced all eight bills on its agenda, with each measure passing its full committee vote. Bills addressed topics including mental health training for teachers, free school breakfast, employee grievance procedures, internet safety instruction, alternative growth assessments, college partnership laboratory school transparency, school meal debt reporting, and indigenous instructional resources.
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“HB38 from Delegate Henson, which improves existing mental health awareness training for teachers by addressing the needs of youth populations at high risk for mental health care challenges.”
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Sign in to subscribeHouse Committee on Education will come to order. Workshop. Please take the role. Clerk shall close the roll. A quorum is present. We have one committee report to hear from the Subcommittee on K12 Education from Chair Simons. Chair Simons, good morning. Good morning. First up in the K12 subcommittee, we heard HB38 from Delegate Henson, which improves existing mental health awareness training for teachers by addressing the needs of youth populations at high risk for mental health care challenges. The subcommittee recommends reporting 9 to 1 and ISO. Move. Motion's been made and properly seconded to report House Bill 38. Clerks will please open the roll. We can close the roll. Bill reports 12 to 4. Chair Simons, chairman. HB 96 from patron delegate Bennett Parker requires each school board to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the Federal School Breakfast Program administered by the U.S. department of Agriculture, and to make breakfast available to any student who requests such meal at no cost to the student. The subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to appropriations on a vote of 10 to 0 and I, so move. Motion has been made and properly seconded to report and…
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