HB 570

            
2020 SESSION


20105738D

HOUSE BILL NO. 570

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Education

on January 29, 2020)

(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Guzman)

A BILL to amend and reenact � 22.1-307 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to dismissal of teachers; grounds; incompetency.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 22.1-307 of the Code of Virginia is amended and
reenacted as follows:

� 22.1-307. Dismissal of teacher; grounds.

A. Teachers may be dismissed for incompetency,
immorality, noncompliance with school laws and regulations, disability as shown
by competent medical evidence when in compliance with federal law, conviction
of a felony or a crime of moral turpitude, or other good and just cause. A teacher
shall be dismissed if such teacher is or becomes the subject of a founded
complaint of child abuse and neglect, pursuant to � 63.2-1505, and after all
rights to any administrative appeal provided by � 63.2-1526 have been
exhausted. The fact of such finding, after all rights to any administrative
appeal provided by � 63.2-1526 have been exhausted, shall be grounds for the
local school division to recommend that the Board of Education revoke such
persons license to teach. No teacher shall be dismissed or placed on probation
solely on the basis of the teachers refusal to submit to a polygraph
examination requested by the school board.

B. For the purposes of this article,
"incompetency" may be construed to include, but shall not be limited
to, consistent failure to meet the endorsement requirements for the position or
one or more unsatisfactory performance evaluations.