Teachers and other school board employees; grounds for dismissal. (HB786)
Introduced By
Del. Tony Wilt (R-Harrisonburg) with support from co-patrons Del. Jeff Campbell (R-Marion), Del. Terry Kilgore (R-Gate City), Del. Israel O'Quinn (R-Bristol), and Sen. Ben Chafin (R-Lebanon)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✗ |
Passed Committee |
✓ |
Passed House |
☐ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
Dismissal of teachers and other school board employees; grounds. Provides that no school board employee shall be dismissed or placed on probation solely on the grounds that (i) he possessed an unloaded firearm that is in a closed container in or upon his vehicle or in the locked trunk of his vehicle, a knife having a metal blade in or upon his motor vehicle, or an unloaded shotgun or rifle in a firearms rack in or upon his motor vehicle or (ii) the employee, who has a valid concealed handgun permit, possessed a concealed handgun while in his motor vehicle in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other means of vehicular ingress or egress to the school. Read the Bill »
Status
02/27/2014: Failed to Pass in Committee
History
Date | Action |
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01/07/2014 | Committee |
01/07/2014 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102127D |
01/07/2014 | Referred to Committee on Education |
01/17/2014 | Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education |
01/29/2014 | Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) |
01/29/2014 | Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety |
02/03/2014 | Reported from Education (13-Y 9-N) (see vote tally) |
02/03/2014 | Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety |
02/04/2014 | Impact statement from DPB (HB786) |
02/04/2014 | Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #1 |
02/06/2014 | Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 1-N) |
02/07/2014 | Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety (15-Y 7-N) (see vote tally) |
02/08/2014 | Read first time |
02/10/2014 | Read second time and engrossed |
02/11/2014 | Read third time and passed House (67-Y 32-N) |
02/11/2014 | VOTE: PASSAGE (67-Y 32-N) (see vote tally) |
02/12/2014 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/12/2014 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
02/18/2014 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
02/27/2014 | Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) (see vote tally) |
Comments
There are no shooting ranges on school property. There is no reason to have a gun on school property.
Responding to Gregg J: Resource officers carry guns on school property to defend students. Note, too that if the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School had been armed with a gun instead of trying to fend off the criminal shooter with only her bare arms, that tragedy would have been minimized or perhaps averted. This bill, and HB 21, which are both intelligently written, would help safeguard Virginia's students, not to mention the jobs of dedicated teachers and their constitutional rights as well.
Adam Lanza's mother was heavily armed. But she's dead, too.
What I like about this bill has nothing to do with wanting to have the use of the firearm on the campus, but rather to do with off-campus. I am a concealed carry holder and school board employee, but I cannot exercise that right Monday through Friaday. So before I go to work and when I'm doing my business in town after work I cannot have the firearm because during the middle of the day, or at some point of the day, will be on a school campus. It's not as simple and going home to get it and going back out, because I live 30 miles away from town, so that's not practical. If I could keep the firearm unloaded and locked in my vehicle I could exercise my rights off the clock.