HB1480: School calendar; opening of school year in City of Roanoke.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1480
Offered January 12, 2011
Prefiled December 10, 2010
A BILL to authorize the City of Roanoke School Board to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school may be before Labor Day.
Patron-- Cleaveland

Referred to Committee on Education

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1. Opening of the school year in the City of Roanoke.

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 22.1-79.1 of the Code of Virginia, the School Board of the City of Roanoke may set the school calendar for the City of Roanoke school division so that the first day students are required to attend school shall be no earlier than two weeks prior to Labor Day.