Virginia House Bill 166 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: Introduced on December 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-18 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Visually impaired students; Braille. Requires each visually impaired student to be evaluated by a certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired and requires the student to receive instruction in Braille or the use of Braille unless the team responsible for developing the student's IEP (IEP team) or the team responsible for developing the student's plan pursuant to §504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (504 team)determines that instruction in Braille or the use of Braille is not appropriate to the student's educational needs. Current law requires a determination of the appropriateness of Braille but does not require the evaluation. The bill allows IEP teams and 504 teams to provide other specialized educational services and assistive technology devices in addition to Braille. The bill permits IEP teams and 504 teams to determine that visually impaired students are eligible for instruction in the use of the appropriate Braille mathematics code in addition to Braille and the use of Braille. The bill disallows the presence of some residual vision from precluding instruction in Braille and the use of Braille.

Visually impaired students; each student to be evaluated and receive instruction in Braille.

Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Daun Hester [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]	Del. Robert Marshall [R]	Del. Richard Sullivan [D]

2016-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 7-N) (Y: 16 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-18	House	Left in Appropriations
2016-02-10	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-28	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2016-01-27	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2016-01-27	House	Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 7-N)
2016-01-15	House	Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education
2015-12-23	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2015-12-23	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101537D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	217	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB166
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB166+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H09V0032+HB0166