Virginia House Bill 1629 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 38-0)
Status: Passed on March 26 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal; report. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, as that term is defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides a description of the purpose of each state-supported assessment, an explanation of how to interpret student data on each state-supported assessment, and a comparison of a student's performance on each state-supported assessment with the performance of the student's school, the student's school division, and the Commonwealth; (iii) is viewable from a mobile device in addition to a desktop computer; and (iv) provides functionality to enable school division personnel to manage and restrict user access to students and their parents. Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal; report. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, as that term is defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides a description of the purpose of each state-supported assessment, an explanation of how to interpret student data on each state-supported assessment, and a comparison of a student's performance on each state-supported assessment with the performance of the student's school, the student's school division, and the Commonwealth; (iii) is viewable from a mobile device in addition to a desktop computer; and (iv) provides functionality to enable school division personnel to manage and restrict user access to students and their parents. The bill requires the Board and the Department of Education to provide certain guidance and technical assistance to local school divisions on professional development for principals and teachers in parent engagement on and interpretation of student assessment data available through the Portal and requires each school board to annually provide high-quality professional development to principals and teachers on such topics. The foregoing provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2024 Session of the General Assembly. Finally, the bill establishes a work group for the purpose of advising the Board of Education on the criteria for and the process of procuring the goods and services necessary to implement the Portal and requires such work group to submit a report containing its findings and any recommendations to the Board of Education and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023.

Virginia Parent Data Portal; Board of Education to create and maintain, report.

Del. Carrie Coyner [R]	Del. Timothy Anderson [R]	Del. Terry Austin [R]	Del. John Avoli [R]
Sen. Emily Brewer [R]	Del. Kathy Byron [R]	Del. Ellen Campbell [R]	Del. Jeffrey Campbell [R]
Del. Mike Cherry [R]	Del. AC Cordoza [R]	Sen. Tara Durant [R]	Del. James Edmunds [R]
Del. Hyland Fowler [R]	Del. Karen Greenhalgh [R]	Sen. Chris Head [R]	Del. Keith Hodges [R]
Del. Terry Kilgore [R]	Del. Dave LaRock [R]	Del. James Leftwich [R]	Del. Daniel Marshall [R]
Del. Joseph McNamara [R]	Del. James Morefield [R]	Del. Israel O'Quinn [R]	Del. Robert Orrock [R]
Del. Margaret Ransone [R]	Del. Roxann Robinson [R]	Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Phillip Scott [R]
Del. Anne Ferrell Tata [R]	Del. Kim Taylor [R]	Del. Otto Wachsmann [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]
Del. William Wampler [R]	Del. Lee Ware [R]	Del. Michael Webert [R]	Del. Bill Wiley [R]
Del. Tony Wilt [R]	Del. Scott Wyatt [R]

2023-02-22 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2023-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-27 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-01-23 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-26		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652)
2023-03-26		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 652 (effective -see bill)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1629ER)
2023-03-07	House	Enrolled
2023-02-22	House	VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
2023-02-22	House	Senate substitute agreed to by House 23106980D-S2 (96-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	Senate	Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1629S2
2023-02-21	Senate	Finance and Appropriations Committee substitute agreed to 23106980D-S2
2023-02-21	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-02-21	Senate	Education and Health Committee substitute rejected 23106513D-S1
2023-02-21	Senate	Read third time
2023-02-20	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-16	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23106980D-S2
2023-02-16	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
2023-02-09	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2023-02-09	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23106513D-S1
2023-02-09	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2023-01-30	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2023-01-30	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2023-01-27	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
2023-01-27	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2023-01-26	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1629H1
2023-01-26	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23104641D-H1
2023-01-26	House	Read second time
2023-01-25	House	Read first time
2023-01-23	House	Committee substitute printed 23104641D-H1
2023-01-23	House	Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
2023-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
2023-01-16	House	Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
2023-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2023-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103788D

SB1329 (Same As) 2023-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653)
SB1329 (Same As) 2023-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1629
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1629+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1629H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1629S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1629S2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1629ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0652+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23104641D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/23104641D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106513D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1629FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1629FS1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1629FS2122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1629FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H0903V0018+HB1629
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H09V0022+HB1629
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1124+HB1629
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S04V0255+HB1629
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S05V0424+HB1629
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0630HB1629+HB1629
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0679HB1629+HB1629
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2212+HB1629