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Votes at a glance: Education and Health committee reports multiple bills to finance, passes several without debate
Summary
The Senate Education and Health Committee reported a slate of bills to the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, passed several measures and took other procedural actions; most bills were approved on voice or unanimous roll calls and several were re‑referred to finance.
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, SB 1229 and SB 1247. The committee also considered health professions legislation and re‑referred SB 1363 and SB 1367 to finance.
Where roll-call tallies were recorded on the transcript, they are noted below. When no tally was recorded in the transcript, the entry lists the committee outcome as recorded in committee statements.
Votes and actions recorded in committee (selected):
- SB 786: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded in transcript: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 822: Substitute adopted; reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 898: Motion granted to "go by for the day" at the request of the patron (outcome: go by for the day; no roll provided).
- SB 1102: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 1111: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 1149: Committee passed the measure by indefinitely with a letter from the chair (committee recommended pass by indefinitely; transcript confirms passage; clerk roll not clearly recorded in transcript).
- SB 1264: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 1293: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 1354: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 1437: Amendments adopted in committee; bill reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance with the approved amendments (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 1441: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance; clerk recorded 14 Ayes, 0 No, 1 Abstention on the roll call recorded in transcript.
Higher education and related bills:
- SB 915: Recommended passed by indefinitely by the subcommittee; committee recorded passage by indefinite (subcommittee recommendation noted in transcript).
- SB 961: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 1016: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded in transcript as Ayes 14, No 1).
- SB 1229 (with substitute): Reported with substitute and re‑referred to Senate Finance (outcome recorded; roll not clearly shown in transcript excerpt).
- SB 1247: Passed by indefinitely in committee (subcommittee recommended pass by indefinitely; transcript confirms passage).
Health and professional licensure bills:
- SB 1363: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (transcript indicates the committee moved and clerk recorded report and referral).
- SB 1367: Reported and re‑referred to Senate Finance (tally recorded: Ayes 15, No 0).
- SB 882: Committee recorded a motion to report and re‑refer SB 882 to finance after a late fiscal-impact memo was noted; clerk recorded the measure as reported and re‑referred (transcript shows roll: Ayes 12, No 3, with some abstentions referenced in the discussion). The committee clerk entry recorded: "SB 882 has been reported and is re referred to finance."
A number of measures previously scheduled for later in the docket were deferred for consideration at the committee's regular meeting on Thursday or to the health subcommittee later that day, per the chair.
The committee's meeting notes and the Legislative Information System should be consulted for official roll-call tallies and final text; the transcript excerpts above reflect the committee's spoken record at this special meeting.
