2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25101053D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1880

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 6, 2025

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-3.5, relating to public schools; enrollment of certain military children with disabilities; provision of special education services and accommodations.

—————

Patrons—Sewell, Hayes, Maldonado, Price, Simonds, Clark, Cole, Feggans, Glass, Thomas and Willett

—————

Referred to Committee on Education

—————

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-3.5 as follows:

§ 22.1-3.5. Enrollment of certain military children with disabilities; provision of special education services and accommodations.

Whenever a child of a service member parent who enrolls in a school division pursuant to subdivision B 3 of § 22.1-3 is also a child with disabilities, the school board that governs the school division shall, upon receiving the documentation from the service member parent or an official letter from the service member parent's command indicating such service member parent's relocation to such school division, coordinate with the service member parent and such child's previous school division to facilitate the prompt provision of comparable special education services and accommodations based on such child's current Individualized Education Program or Section 504 Plan.