2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

24100267D

SENATE BILL NO. 445

Offered January 10, 2024

Prefiled January 9, 2024

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-289.3, relating to veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; teachers; credit for service.

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Patrons—Durant and Perry

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Referred to Committee on Public Education

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-289.3 as follows:

§ 22.1-289.3. Veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces; credit for service.

Each local school board shall 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.