                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 22.1-370)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Children of federal employees serving under orders pursuant to Title 22
or 50 of the United States Code&#8221; means school-age children, enrolled in
kindergarten through grade 12, in the household of a federal employee serving
under orders pursuant to Title 22 or 50 of the United States Code.
		&#8220;Educational records&#8221; means those official records, files, and
data directly related to a student and maintained by a school or local education
agency or a foreign education agency, including records encompassing all the
material kept in the student&#8217;s cumulative folder such as general
identifying data, records of attendance and of academic work completed, records
of achievement and results of evaluative tests, health data, disciplinary
status, test protocols, and individualized education programs.
		&#8220;Extracurricular activities&#8221; means voluntary activities sponsored
by a school division or public school therein or an organization sanctioned by a
school division. &#8220;Extracurricular activities&#8221; includes preparation
for and involvement in public performances, contests, athletic competitions,
demonstrations, displays, and club activities.
		&#8220;Foreign education agency&#8221; means a public authority legally
constituted by a foreign country or a political subdivision thereof as an
administrative agency or an equivalent agency or entity to provide control of
and direction for the provision of public education at the primary and secondary
education levels.
		&#8220;Local education agency&#8221; means a public authority legally
constituted by a state as an administrative agency to provide control of and
direction for the provision of public education at the primary and secondary
education levels.
		&#8220;Sending country&#8221; means the foreign country, including a political
subdivision thereof, from which a child of a federal employee serving under
orders pursuant to Title 22 or 50 of the United States Code is sent, brought, or
caused to be sent or brought. &#8220;Sending country&#8221; does not include the
United States.
		&#8220;Sending state&#8221; means the state from which a child of a federal
employee serving under orders pursuant to Title 22 or 50 of the United States
Code is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought. &#8220;Sending
state&#8221; does not include the Commonwealth.
		&#8220;State&#8221; means one of 50 United States, the District of Columbia,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
the Northern Marianas Islands, any other U.S. territory, and any Department of
Defense Educational Activity school.
		&#8220;Student&#8221; means the child of a federal employee serving under
orders pursuant to Title 22 or 50 of the United States Code and who is formally
enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12.
		&#8220;Transition&#8221; means (i) the formal and physical process of
transferring from school to school or (ii) the period of time in which a student
moves from one school in the sending state or the sending country to another
school in the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 2023, c. 783; 2025, c. 445.