Virginia House Bill 1410 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Education, to (i) select, with input from an advisory committee that the bill establishes, language development milestones and include such milestones in a resource for use by parents of a child from birth to age five who is identified as deaf or hard of hearing to monitor and track their child's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy; (ii) disseminate such resource to such parents; (iii) select existing tools or assessments for educators for use in assessing the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing; (iv) disseminate such tools or assessments to local educational agencies and provide materials and training on their use; and (v) annually produce a report that compares the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing with the language and literacy development of their peers who are not deaf or hard of hearing and make such report available to the public on its website.

Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources.

Del. Gordon Helsel [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2018-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2019 by voice vote
2018-01-19	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
2018-01-15	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2018-01-15	House	Presented and ordered printed 18104083D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	2	314.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1410
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1410+hil