Votes at a glance: Education and Health committee reports multiple bills to finance, passes several without debate

At a special meeting, the Virginia Senate Education and Health Committee reported numerous education and health bills to the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee and took several other procedural actions, including passing substitutes, reporting bills, passing measures by indefinitely and tabling or sending some bills to be taken up later.

Major committee dispositions recorded during the meeting include reporting or re‑referring the following measures to the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee: SB 786 (nationally certified school psychologist program), SB 822 (limits on nonacademic teacher training hours), SB 1102 (Safety First comprehensive drug education pilot), SB 1111 (student personal information and student support agency registration), SB 1264 (biannual review of CTE pathways and credentials), SB 1293 (optional autism professional development points), SB 1354 (Medicaid billing navigator positions at DOE), SB 1437 (ensemble music/6th-grade class-size amendments), SB 1441 (middle school mathematics innovation program) and several higher-education bills including SB 961, SB 1016,…