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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 445: Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; credit for service, teacher salary scale.

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

SB 445 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 9, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; credit for service, teacher salary scale. Primary sponsor: Tara Durant (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (November 19, 2024): Left in Finance and 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.

Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local school board to 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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Tara DurantPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate27
Russet PerryCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate31

“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 Finance and Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
  3. Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
  4. Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
  5. Impact statement from DPB (SB445)
  6. Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  7. Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
  8. Referred to Committee on Education and Health
  9. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100267D

Sources

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