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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 22.1 - Education
Chapter 14 - Pupils
Article 1. Compulsory School Attendance
- § 22.1-254. Compulsory attendance required; excuses and waivers; alternative education program attendance; exemptions from article
- § 22.1-254.01. Certain students required to attend summer school or after-school sessions
- § 22.1-254.02. Students transferring from a public school
- § 22.1-254.1. Declaration of policy; requirements for home instruction of children
- § 22.1-254.2. Testing for high school equivalency; eligibility; guidelines
- § 22.1-255. Nonresident children
- § 22.1-256. Repealed
- § 22.1-258. Appointment of attendance officers; notification when pupil fails to report to school; plan; conference; court proceedings
- § 22.1-259. Teachers to keep daily attendance records
- § 22.1-260. Reports of children enrolled and not enrolled; nonattendance
- § 22.1-261. Attendance officer to make list of children not enrolled; duties of attendance officer
- § 22.1-262. Complaint to court when parent fails to comply with law
- § 22.1-263. Violation constitutes misdemeanor
- § 22.1-264. Misdemeanor to make false statements as to age
- § 22.1-264.1. Misdemeanor to make false statements as to school division or attendance zone residency; penalty
- § 22.1-265. Inducing children to absent themselves
- § 22.1-266. Law-enforcement officers and truant children
- § 22.1-267. Proceedings against habitually absent child
- § 22.1-268. Duty of attorneys for the Commonwealth to prosecute cases arising under article; jurisdiction of offenses
- § 22.1-269. Board to enforce
- § 22.1-269.1. Alternative attendance programs
Article 2. Health Provisions
- § 22.1-270. Preschool physical examinations
- § 22.1-271. Repealed
- § 22.1-271.1. Definitions
- § 22.1-271.2. Immunization requirements
- § 22.1-271.3. Guidelines for school attendance for children infected with human immunodeficiency virus; school personnel training required; notification of school personnel in certain cases
- § 22.1-271.4. Health requirements for home-instructed, exempted, and excused children
- § 22.1-271.5. Guidelines and policies and procedures on concussions in student-athletes
- § 22.1-271.6. School division policies and procedures on concussions in students
- § 22.1-271.7. Public middle school student-athletes; pre-participation physical examination
- § 22.1-272. Contagious and infectious diseases
- § 22.1-272.1. Responsibility to contact parent of student at imminent risk of suicide; notice to be given to social services if parental abuse or neglect; Board of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Department of Health, to develop guidelines for parental contact
- § 22.1-273. Vision and hearing of student to be tested; exceptions
- § 22.1-273.1. Annual screening for scoliosis
- § 22.1-273.2. Parent educational information regarding eating disorders
- § 22.1-274. School health services
- § 22.1-274.01. Repealed
- § 22.1-274.01:1. Students who are diagnosed with diabetes; self-care; insertion and reinsertion of insulin pump
- § 22.1-274.02. Certain memorandum of agreement required
- § 22.1-274.1. Criteria to identify toxic art materials; labeling; use in certain grades prohibited
- § 22.1-274.2. Possession and self-administration of inhaled asthma medications and epinephrine by certain students or school board employees
- § 22.1-274.3. Policies regarding medication recommendations by school personnel
- § 22.1-274.4. Automated external defibrillators
- § 22.1-275. Protective eye devices
- § 22.1-275.1. School health advisory board
Article 3. Discipline
- § 22.1-276. Repealed
- § 22.1-276.01. Definitions
- § 22.1-276.1. Expired
- § 22.1-276.2. Removal of students from classes
- § 22.1-276.3. Ineligibility of students to compete in athletic competitions
- § 22.1-277. Suspensions and expulsions of students generally
- § 22.1-277.01. Repealed
- § 22.1-277.04. Short-term suspension; procedures; readmission
- § 22.1-277.05. Long-term suspensions; procedures; readmission
- § 22.1-277.06. Expulsions; procedures; readmission
- § 22.1-277.07. Expulsion of students under certain circumstances; exceptions
- § 22.1-277.07:1. Policies prohibiting possession of firearms
- § 22.1-277.08. Expulsion of students for certain drug offenses
- § 22.1-277.1. Repealed
- § 22.1-277.2. Authority to exclude students under certain circumstances; petition for readmission; alternative education program
- § 22.1-277.2:1. Disciplinary authority of school boards under certain circumstances; alternative education program
- § 22.1-277.2:2. Alternative education program data
- § 22.1-278. Repealed
- § 22.1-279. Repealed
- § 22.1-279.1. Corporal punishment prohibited
- § 22.1-279.1:1. The use of seclusion and restraint in public schools; Board of Education regulations
- § 22.1-279.2. Repealed
- § 22.1-279.3. Parental responsibility and involvement requirements
- § 22.1-279.3:1. Reports of certain acts to school authorities
- § 22.1-279.3:2. Public elementary and secondary school students; protective orders; notification
- § 22.1-279.4. Information regarding prosecution for certain crimes
- § 22.1-279.5. Repealed
- § 22.1-279.6. Board of Education guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct; school board regulations
- § 22.1-279.7. Guidelines for student searches
- § 22.1-279.8. School safety audits and school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans required
- § 22.1-279.9. Development of programs to prevent crime and violence
- § 22.1-280. Repealed
- § 22.1-280.1. Repealed
- § 22.1-280.2. School crime line defined; development of school crime lines authorized; local school boards' authority; Board of Education to promulgate regulations
- § 22.1-280.2:1. Employment of school security officers
- § 22.1-280.2:2. Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013
- § 22.1-280.2:3. School boards; local law-enforcement agencies; memorandums of understanding
- § 22.1-280.3. Repealed
- § 22.1-280.4. School board action regarding destruction of property
Article 4. Triennial Census [Repealed]
Article 5. Pupil Records
- § 22.1-287. Limitations on access to records
- § 22.1-287.01. Student information; release to federal government agencies
- § 22.1-287.02. Students' personally identifiable information
- § 22.1-287.03. Unique student identification numbers
- § 22.1-287.04. Uniformed services-connected students
- § 22.1-287.1. Directory information
- § 22.1-288. Furnishing information to public or private school or institution of higher education or private business or professional school or institution of higher education or military force
- § 22.1-288.1. Notation in school records of missing children; local law-enforcement cooperation
- § 22.1-288.2. Receipt, dissemination and maintenance of records of certain law-enforcement information
- § 22.1-289. Transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; penalty
- § 22.1-289.01. School service providers; school-affiliated entities; student personal information
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