Dress Code Equity Act; guidelines and policies for dress or grooming codes in schools. (HB837)
Introduced By
Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy (D-Woodbridge)
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Description
Board of Education; school boards; dress or grooming codes. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct (i) standards for reducing bias and harassment in the enforcement of any code of student conduct and (ii) standards for dress or grooming codes, which the bill defines as any practice, policy, or portion of a code of student conduct adopted by a school board that governs or restricts the attire of any enrolled student. The bill permits any school board to include in its code of student conduct a dress or grooming code. The bill requires any dress or grooming code included in a school board's code of student conduct or otherwise adopted by a school board to (a) permit any student to wear any religiously and ethnically specific or significant head covering or hairstyle, including hijabs, yarmulkes, headwraps, braids, locs, and cornrows; (b) maintain gender neutrality by subjecting any student to the same set of rules and standards regardless of gender; (c) not have a disparate impact on students of a particular gender; (d) be clear, specific, and objective in defining terms, if used; (e) prohibit any school board employee from enforcing the dress or grooming code by direct physical contact with a student or a student's attire; and (f) prohibit any school board employee from requiring a student to undress in front of any other individual, including the enforcing school board employee, to comply with the dress or grooming code. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 01/07/2020 | Committee |
| 01/07/2020 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104462D |
| 01/07/2020 | Referred to Committee on Education |
| 01/15/2020 | Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 |
| 01/17/2020 | Impact statement from DPB (HB837) |
| 01/27/2020 | Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N) |
| 02/03/2020 | Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/03/2020 | Committee substitute printed 20107220D-H1 |
| 02/05/2020 | Impact statement from DPB (HB837H1) |
| 02/05/2020 | Read first time |
| 02/06/2020 | Read second time |
| 02/06/2020 | Committee substitute agreed to 20107220D-H1 |
| 02/06/2020 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB837H1 |
| 02/07/2020 | Read third time and passed House (81-Y 17-N) |
| 02/07/2020 | VOTE: Passage (81-Y 17-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/10/2020 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 02/10/2020 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| 02/18/2020 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
| 02/27/2020 | Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 4-N 3-A) (see vote tally) |
| 02/28/2020 | Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 03/02/2020 | Read third time |
| 03/02/2020 | Passed by for the day |
| 03/03/2020 | Read third time |
| 03/03/2020 | Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) (see vote tally) |
| 03/06/2020 | Enrolled |
| 03/06/2020 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB837ER) |
| 03/06/2020 | Impact statement from DPB (HB837ER) |
| 03/06/2020 | Signed by Speaker |
| 03/06/2020 | Signed by President |
| 03/12/2020 | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020 |
| 03/12/2020 | G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
| 04/06/2020 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 678 (effective 7/1/20) |
| 04/06/2020 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
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