Virginia House Bill 1660 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Study of documents relating to Virginia history and the United States Constitution; Federalist Papers. Adds the Federalist Papers to a list of documents relating to Virginia history and the United States Constitution that are required to be explained and taught to students in public elementary, middle, and high schools. The bill requires the study of each such document to be incorporated into the appropriate Standards of Learning. The bill also requires the Department of Education to report biennially to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on how such documents have been incorporated into the appropriate Standards of Learning and into curricula.

Va. history & U.S. Constitution; Federalist Papers are required to be taught & explained to student.

Del. Thomas Greason [R]

2017-01-23 - House - House: Reported from Education (13-Y 8-N) (Y: 13 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	House	Left in Education
2017-01-27	House	Rereferred to Education
2017-01-27	House	Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
2017-01-26	House	Passed by for the day
2017-01-25	House	Passed by for the day
2017-01-24	House	Read first time
2017-01-23	House	Reported from Education (13-Y 8-N)
2017-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
2017-01-13	House	Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education
2017-01-05	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2017-01-05	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101328D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	201	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1660
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1660+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H0901V0004+HB1660
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H09V0017+HB1660