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HB1182Introduced in the House of Delegates

Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Locative Devices

EngrossedSenate Education, Energy, and the Environment

Introduced by Aletheia McCaskill, District 44

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to develop policies and procedures regarding student wandering or elopement behavior; authorizing certain public and nonpublic schools to coordinate a student's voluntary use of a certain locative device and monitor the student's location using the locative device only for wandering or elopement behavior; establishing certain privacy and data protections for information obtained through a student's voluntary use of a certain locative device; etc.

Where it stands

Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.

March 20, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of DelegatesStage: Third Reading Passed · March 18, 2026

133

Yes

0

No

8

Absent or Not Voting

141 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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Bill history

  1. First Reading Ways and Means

  2. Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.

  3. Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means

  4. Favorable with Amendments {533329/1 Adopted

  5. Second Reading Passed with Amendments

  6. Third Reading Passed (133-0)

  7. Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment

  8. Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.

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