Virginia House Bill 1470 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 29 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-05 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public charter schools; costs and applications. Establishes that public charter schools are not required to pay the costs of necessary renovations to school facilities and clarifies that the negotiations between the public charter school and the local school board over the costs of operation and maintenance of school facilities shall occur after approval of the public charter school application. The bill also provides that the procedures for receiving, reviewing, and ruling upon charter school applications shall provide that (i) if any group or individual other than the school board or its members reviews a charter school application, that group or individual shall provide regular reports to the school board on the progress of the review and (ii) the local school board shall deliver its decision within 90 days of the submission of the application to the local school board for review. The bill additionally requires the Board of Education to establish guidelines containing best practices for receiving, reviewing, and ruling upon public charter school applications and to post the guidelines on its website and make a copy of the guidelines available to all interested parties upon request. The bill further requires the local school board to provide written notification of the reasons for its denial of a public charter school application without conditions or reservations or acceptance of a public school charter application with conditions or reservations. The satisfaction of conditions or reservations shall be deemed an application amended by negotiation, and such application shall be exempt from the procedures for petitions of reconsideration and subject to the process for reviewing applications pursuant to § 22.1-212.9. The bill finally requires the local school board to submit all documents to the Board of Education that the local school board used in its decision to deny the charter school application or revoke or fail to renew the charter agreement. The law previously required the local school board to submit documentation to the Board of Education as to the rationale for the denial or revocation of the charter school application.

Public charter schools; costs and applications.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

2013-01-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-05	House	Left in Education
2013-01-24	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N)
2013-01-11	House	Assigned Education sub: Teachers and Admin. Action
2012-12-29	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2012-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100509D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	212.10	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	212.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	212.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1470
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1470+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+H0903V0010+HB1470