Virginia House Bill 1653 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Passed on April 2 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Department of Education; data collection; school counselor positions. Requires the Department of Education to collect data from school boards regarding their ability to fill school counselor positions, including (i) the number of school counselors employed in elementary, middle, and high schools in the local school division; (ii) the number and duration of school counselor vacancies; (iii) the number, role, and license type of other licensed counseling professionals employed by the school board; and (iv) information about their preferences for meeting updated school counselor to student ratios with other licensed counseling professionals. The bill requires the Department to report the results of such data collection to the Governor, the Secretary of Education, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than June 30, 2021.

School counselors; staffing ratios, report.

Del. Tony Wilt [R]

2020-03-03 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 2-N) (Y: 96 N: 2 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N) (Y: 92 N: 7 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (16-Y 5-N) (Y: 16 N: 5 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-02		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641)
2020-04-02		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 641 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-06	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-06	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-06	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1653ER)
2020-03-06	House	Enrolled
2020-03-03	House	VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 2-N)
2020-03-03	House	Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 2-N)
2020-03-03	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-03-02	Senate	Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
2020-03-02	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended
2020-03-02	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2020-03-02	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-03-02	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-02-27	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
2020-02-18	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2020-02-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2020-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-11	House	VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N)
2020-02-11	House	Read third time and passed House (92-Y 7-N)
2020-02-10	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1653H1
2020-02-10	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20107128D-H1
2020-02-10	House	Read second time
2020-02-09	House	Read first time
2020-02-07	House	Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
2020-02-07	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
2020-02-05	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2020-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2020-02-05	House	Committee substitute printed 20107128D-H1
2020-02-05	House	Reported from Education with substitute (16-Y 5-N)
2020-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2020-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
2020-01-21	House	Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
2020-01-17	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2020-01-17	House	Presented and ordered printed 20105372D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1653
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1653+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1653H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1653ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0641+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0903V0046+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H09V0139+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0203V0029+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H02V0228+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H02V0271+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0796+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S04V0348+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1300HB1653+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1372HB1653+HB1653
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1736+HB1653