HB 1037 — Science SOL & Curriculum Framework; instructional material to include climate change, etc.
VA 20261 session
Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy that are based on and include peer-reviewed scientific sources. The bill requires the Board of Education to develop, adopt, and make available to each local school board model policies and procedures, based on peer-reviewed scientific sources, pertaining to the selection of instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy, including a requirement for any such selected material to accurately portray changes in weather and climate patterns over time, the impacts of human activity on changes in weather and climate patterns, and the effects of climate change on people and resources.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (9)
- Betsy B. Carr (D, VA) — sponsor
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nicole Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jackie H. Glass (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Amy J. Laufer (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Irene Shin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kathy K.L. Tran (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (36)
- · house · H4020 —
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- · house · H5000 —
- · senate · S4140 —
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- · senate · S4130 —
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- · senate · S5100 —
- · house · H5610 —
- · house · H5601 —
- · house · H8500 —
- · house · H5620 —
- · senate · S5620 —
- · house · H7010 —
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- · G7210 —
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- · house · H7300 —
- · senate · S7300 —
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- · house · H5615 —
- · house · H5602 —
- · house · H5620 —
- · senate · S5620 —
- · G7050 —
- · G9998 —
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Bill text (extracted)
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Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Betsy B. Carr (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Amy J. Laufer (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Irene Shin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Jackie H. Glass (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Nicole Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no