Proposed Virginia Firearm Legislation SB1048
Legislation Overview
Title: School board policies; parental notification, safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms, etc.
Description: School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in relevant law, present in the household and (ii) the parent's legal responsibility to safely store any firearm present in the household. The bill requires each school board to make such parental notification available in multiple languages on its website. This bill is identical to HB 1678.
Session: 2025 Regular Session
Last Action: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Last Action Date: February 20, 2025
Sponsors
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3 sponsors: Stella Pekarsky (D); Ghazala Hashmi (D); Kannan Srinivasan (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 8% (3 of 40)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Feb 20, 2025 | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 | |
| Senate | Feb 20, 2025 | Signed by President |
| Senate | Feb 18, 2025 | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1048) |
| Senate | Feb 17, 2025 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1048ER) |
| House | Feb 17, 2025 | Signed by Speaker |
| Senate | Feb 17, 2025 | Enrolled |
| House | Feb 12, 2025 | Passed House (54-Y 42-N) |
| House | Feb 12, 2025 | Read third time |
| House | Feb 11, 2025 | Passed by for the day |
| House | Feb 10, 2025 | Passed by for the day |
| House | Feb 7, 2025 | Read second time |
| House | Feb 5, 2025 | Reported from Education (14-Y 6-N) |
| House | Feb 3, 2025 | Referred to Committee on Education |
| House | Feb 3, 2025 | Placed on Calendar |
| House | Feb 3, 2025 | Read first time |
| Senate | Jan 28, 2025 | Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| Senate | Jan 27, 2025 | Engrossed by Senate |
| Senate | Jan 27, 2025 | Read second time |
| Senate | Jan 24, 2025 | Passed by for the day |
| Senate | Jan 24, 2025 | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) |
| Senate | Jan 24, 2025 | Rules suspended |
| Senate | Jan 23, 2025 | Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| Senate | Jan 16, 2025 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
| Senate | Jan 13, 2025 | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1048) |
| Senate | Jan 7, 2025 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| Senate | Jan 7, 2025 | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103031D |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Enrolled | Feb 17, 2025 | state link | bill text |
| Introduced | Jan 7, 2025 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
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Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
| Description | Vote Date | Yea Votes | Nay Votes | No Votes | Absent | Passed |
| Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) | 01/23/2025 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
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| Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) | 01/24/2025 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Yes |
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| Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) | 01/28/2025 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 1 | Yes |
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| Reported from Education (14-Y 6-N) | 02/5/2025 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | Yes |
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| Passed House (54-Y 42-N) | 02/12/2025 | 54 | 42 | 0 | 4 | Yes |
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Link: link to state bill page
