2O22 LEGISLATIVE
REPORT CARD Critical Education Bills From the 2022 General Assembly Session Reading VEA’s Report Card Key votes are listed across the top of each chart. A green check mark means the legislator voted with VEA on that bill; a red X means they voted against VEA’s position. NV means they did not cast a vote on the bill; AB means they abstained from voting; and LA means they were granted a leave of absence on the day the vote took place.
SB156. Would have increased the ratio of SOQ-funded EL teachers to 22 per 1,000 English learner students. EL teachers are currently funded at a ratio of 20 per 1,000 EL students. (S. vote: 2/14/22, 11:50AM) SB490. Improves SOQ staffing standards by requiring one full-time principal in every school. (S. vote: 6/17/22, 2:36PM; H. vote: 6/1/22) SB739. Exerts state control over local school divisions’ ability to move to virtual learning options and/or implement masking policies in emergencies that could affect the health and safety of students and staff. (S. vote: 2/15/22, 6:11PM; H. vote: 2/16/22) SJ1. Would have automatically restored voting rights to individuals who have completed incarceration for a felony conviction. Under current law, a person convicted of a felony must have their civil rights restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority. (S. vote: 2/15/22, 5:56PM) HB9. Would have rolled back progress made in 2020 on teacher probationary terms and the threemember fact-finding panel. (H. vote: 1/25/22) HB319. Aims to improve literacy rates among K-3 students, improves SOQ staffing standards by requiring one reading specialist per 550 students in grades K through 3. (H. vote: 2/11/22; S. vote: 3/3/22, 2:18PM) HB356. Would have allowed the Board of Education to establish regional charter school divisions, expanding charter school authorization to unelected, unaccountable regional charter boards. (H. vote: 2/15/22) HB585. As introduced, would have reduced SOL assessments to the minimum requirement of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (S. vote: 3/7/22, 12:11PM, H. vote: 3/8/22) HB787. Would have declared it an unlawful and discriminatory practice to instruct on divisive concepts, as defined in the bill, and would have resulted in educators being targeted, harassed, and intimidated simply for doing their jobs and teaching our full history. (H. vote: 2/15/22) HB883. Would have repealed Virginia’s permissive collective bargaining law for public employees. (H. vote: 2/15/22)
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HB30 – Governor’s budget amendment #13. Would have supported flawed report calling for K-12 privatization, punitive accountability efforts, and igniting culture war issues to teach a whitewashed history. (H. vote: 6/17/22; S. vote: 6/17/22, 5:47PM) HB30 – Governor’s budget amendment #33. Expanded eligibility for college partnership laboratory school program, now allowing private entities to establish lab schools. (H. vote: 6/17/22; S. vote: 6/17/22, 7:52PM) HB30 – Governor’s budget amendment #34. Would have siphoned public funds to experimental lab schools by allowing students enrolled in lab schools to be counted as enrollees of the lab school for the purpose of distribution of state funding. (H. vote: 6/17/22; S. vote: 6/17/22, 7:55PM)