Senate subcommittee backs guidance for school diabetes plans, trims prescriptive medical language

A Virginia Senate subcommittee in Richmond voted to recommend a draft bill directing school boards to adopt diabetes-management policies and asking the Virginia Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to develop and post guidance for school divisions while removing detailed, prescriptive medical language from the measure.

Committee members said the draft blends a short “one-and-a-half page” bill that would require school boards to have a policy with a more expansive, directive alternative. The subcommittee agreed to keep the proposed code change in lines 1–70, retain a directive enactment clause that provides guidance to school divisions, require a biannual review, and stop the third enactment clause after the phrase “type 1 and type 2 diabetes,” striking later, more…