SB461: Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers, credit for service.

SENATE BILL NO. 461

Offered January 8, 2020
Prefiled January 7, 2020
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-289.3, relating to veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service.

Patrons-- Reeves and Peake; Delegates: Avoli, Cole, M.L., Helmer, Murphy, Scott and Simon

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-289.3 as follows:

§ 22.1-289.3. Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; credit for service.

Each local school board shall give any veteran or active duty member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs as a teacher in the local school division credit for any time served in any such forces in determining such teacher's step on the local school division's teacher salary scale.