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Timestamp: 2019-02-22 11:13:26
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HOUSE BILL NO. 2266 Offered January 12, 2005 Prefiled January 11, 2005 A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-208.01, 22.1-279.3:1, and 22.1-279.6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school board policies relating to bullying, harassment, and intimidation. ----------
Patrons-- Bell, Albo, Athey, Carrico, Eisenberg, Fralin, Frederick, Hugo, Janis, Johnson, Kilgore, Phillips, Sherwood and Stump
A. Each school board shall establish, within its existing programs, a character education program in its schools. The purpose of the character education program shall be to instill in students civic virtues and personal character traits so as to improve the learning environment, promote student achievement, reduce disciplinary problems, and develop civic-minded students of high character. The components of each program shall be developed in cooperation with the students, their parents, and the community at large. The basic character traits taught may include (i) trustworthiness, including honesty, integrity, reliability, and loyalty; (ii) respect, including the precepts of the Golden Rule, tolerance, and courtesy, and the inappropriateness of bullying, intimidation, and harassment of others; (iii) responsibility, including hard work, economic self-reliance, accountability, diligence, perseverance, and self-control; (iv) fairness, including justice, consequences of bad behavior, principles of nondiscrimination, and freedom from prejudice; (v) caring, including kindness, empathy, compassion, consideration, generosity, and charity; and (vi) citizenship, including patriotism, the Pledge of Allegiance, respect for the American flag, concern for the common good, respect for authority and the law, and community-mindedness.
A. Reports shall be made to the division superintendent and to the principal or his designee on all incidents involving (i) the assault or assault and battery, without bodily injury, of any person on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity; (ii) the assault and battery which that results in bodily injury, sexual assault, death, shooting, stabbing, cutting, or wounding of any person on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity or any conduct described as stalking in § 18.2-60.3 that occurs on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity; (iii) any conduct involving alcohol, marijuana, a controlled substance, imitation controlled substance, or an anabolic steroid on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, including the theft or attempted theft of student prescription medications; (iv) any threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property or at a school-sponsored activity; (v) the illegal carrying of a firearm, as defined in § 22.1-277.07, onto school property; (vi) any illegal conduct involving firebombs, explosive materials or devices, or hoax explosive devices, as defined in § 18.2-85, or explosive or incendiary devices, as defined in § 18.2-433.1, or chemical bombs, as described in § 18.2-87.1, on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity; (vii) any threats or false threats to bomb, as described in § 18.2-83, made against school personnel or involving school property or school buses; or (viii) the arrest of any student for an incident occurring on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, including the charge therefor.
The principal or his designee shall also notify the parent of any student involved in an incident required pursuant to this section to be reported, regardless of whether disciplinary action is taken against such student or the nature of the disciplinary action. Such notice shall relate to only the relevant student's involvement and shall not include information concerning other students; however, a copy of a concise description of the procedure for filing a juvenile petition and the process for contacting the local law-enforcement agency required by subsection E shall be attached to the notice to the parents.
Further, except as may otherwise be required by federal law, regulation, or jurisprudence, the principal shall also immediately report any act enumerated in clauses (ii) through (vii) of subsection A that may constitute a criminal offense to the parents of any minor student who is the object of such act. A copy of the concise description of the procedure for filing a juvenile petition and for contacting the local law-enforcement agency required by subsection E shall be attached to the report.
E. A statement providing a procedure and the purpose for the requirements of this section shall be included in school board policies required by § 22.1-253.13:7, including a concise description of the procedure for filing a juvenile petition and for contacting the local law-enforcement agency to which reports are submitted hereunder.
A. The Board of Education shall establish guidelines and develop model policies for codes of student conduct to aid local school boards in the implementation of such policies. The guidelines and model policies shall include, but not be limited to, (i) criteria for the removal of a student from a class, the use of suspension, expulsion, and exclusion as disciplinary measures, the grounds for suspension and expulsion and exclusion, and the procedures to be followed in such cases, including proceedings for such suspension, expulsion, and exclusion decisions and all applicable appeals processes; (ii) standards, consistent with state, federal and case laws, for school board policies on alcohol and drugs, hazing, vandalism, trespassing, threats, search and seizure, disciplining of students with disabilities, intentional injury of others, self-defense, and dissemination of such policies to students, their parents, and school personnel; and (iii) procedures to prevent, prohibit, and control bullying, harassment, and intimidation; and (iv) standards for in-service training of school personnel in and examples of the appropriate management of student conduct and student offenses in violation of school board policies.
School board policies relating to bullying, harassment, and intimidation shall include, but need not be limited to, a definition, consistent with the definition provided in this subsection, of bullying, intimidation, and harassment; a clear statement prohibiting such actions on school property or at school-sponsored events; a procedure for reporting incidents; strategies for protecting any person who is the object of such actions; training for teachers, administrators, and other personnel on the prevention and control of bullying, harassment, and intimidation; and a process for educating students on bullying, harassment, and intimidation.
For the purposes of this section, "bullying, harassment, and intimidation" mean any intentional gesture, threat, verbal or physical act, or written statement that (i) harms a student, (ii) damages a student's property, or (iii) places a student in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury.