Under the amendments added by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, local systems must allow students to opt out of mask mandates beginning March 1.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Virginia's General Assembly moved swiftly Wednesday to put the final legislative touches on a bill that bans local school systems from imposing mask mandates on students, joining a number of other states that have taken similar measures.
The legislature passed the bill on Monday; Youngkin then amended it to add an emergency clause so that it could take effect before the typical July 1 enactment date for new legislation. In Virginia, there was a brief discussion Wednesday on the House of Delegates floor about whether it's constitutional to enact legislation on an emergency basis by a simple majority vote.
But Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert overruled Simon's objection. Gilbert cited numerous examples in the past two years when then-Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, amended bills to add an emergency clause and the legislature accepted them on a majority vote.In an interview with Fox News after the bill passed, Youngkin noted that Democrats were key to the bill's passage and that he was pleased to see it draw bipartisan support.
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