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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 359: Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories, federal fund deduction methodology.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 359 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 6, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories, federal fund deduction methodology. Primary sponsor: Shelly Simonds (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Appropriations.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories; federal fund deduction methodology; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs associated with leased facilities and work-related employee travel and (ii) in calculating the deduction of federal funds in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to examine actual school division spending on support costs as a percentage of actual school division spending on all public education costs, with certain exceptions such as food service. The bill also requires support services positions, which includes positions in each local school division that the school board deems necessary for the efficient and cost-effective operation and maintenance of its public schools, to be funded based on a calculation of prevailing costs and prohibits such positions from being subject to any method of funding calculation that caps the number of funded support services positions based on a ratio of such positions to students enrolled in the local school division.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Shelly SimondsPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse70
Marty MartinezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse29

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Appropriations (Voice Vote)
  3. Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
  4. Impact statement from DPB (HB359H1)
  5. Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
  6. Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  7. Committee substitute printed 24105883D-H1
  8. Reported from Education with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
  9. Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
  10. Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
  11. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  12. Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee

Showing 12 most recent of 14 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source