Virginia House Bill 1873 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing; parent resource; tools or assessments for educators; report. Requires the Division of Special Education and Student Services of the Department of Education to (i) select, with input from an advisory committee that it establishes, language development milestones and include such milestones in a resource for use by parents of a child from birth to age five who is identified as deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing to monitor and track their child's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy; (ii) disseminate such resource to such parents; (iii) select existing tools or assessments for educators for use in assessing the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing; (iv) disseminate such tools or assessments to local educational agencies and provide materials and training on their use; and (v) annually produce a report, using existing data reported in compliance with the federally required state performance plan on students with disabilities, that compares the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing with the language and literacy development of their peers who are not deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing and make such report available to the public on its website. The bill is a recommendation of the Disability Commission.

Children from birth to age five who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing; parent resource.

Del. Brenda Pogge [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	House	Left in Education
2017-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2017-01-20	House	Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education
2017-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2017-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100894D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	217.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1873
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1873+hil