2025 SESSION

ENROLLED

VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER

An Act to amend and reenact § 22.1-259 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Department of Education; student attendance data.

[H 2601]

Approved

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22.1-259 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22.1-259. Teachers to keep daily attendance records.

Every A teacher in every public school in the Commonwealth shall keep an accurate daily record of attendance of all children, both (i) at the beginning of the school day and (ii) if applicable, for each class period, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Board of Education. Such record shall, at all times, be open to any officer authorized to enforce the provisions of this article who may inspect or copy the same and shall be admissible in evidence in any prosecution for a violation of this article as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.