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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 563: Classified instructional support staff; definition, procedure for adjusting grievances.

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 563 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 9, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Classified instructional support staff; definition, procedure for adjusting grievances. Primary sponsor: Alex Askew (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Education.

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.

Board of Education; procedure for adjusting grievances; definition of "classified instructional support staff." Requires the Board of Education, for the purpose of its regulations that establish the procedure for adjusting grievances, to define "classified instructional support staff" to mean any nonlicensed teacher, both nonexempt and exempt, who is employed in a local school division and involved in classroom instruction and any other full-time or part-time employee who works more than 90 days total in a 200-day school year and to include teaching assistants, long-term substitutes, site-based substitutes, temporary teachers, and other nonlicensed instructors who substitute in the place of licensed teachers.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Alex AskewPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse95

“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 Education
  2. Continued to 2025 in Education (Voice Vote)
  3. Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
  4. Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
  5. Impact statement from DPB (HB563)
  6. Referred to Committee on Education
  7. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103527D

Sources

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