Virginia House Bill 1929 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-05 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

School Equity and Staffing Act; Standards School Equity and Staffing Act; Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors; certain personnel positions and initiatives. Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide in Standard 1 and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5. The bill also makes several changes relating to school personnel in Standard 2, including (i) establishing schoolwide ratios of students to teachers in certain schools with high concentrations of poverty and granting flexibility to provide compensation adjustments to teachers in such schools; (ii) requiring each school board to assign licensed personnel in a manner that provides an equitable distribution of experienced, effective teachers and other personnel among all schools in the local school division; (iii) requiring each school board to employ teacher leaders and teacher mentors at specified student-to-position ratios; (iv) requiring state funding in addition to basic aid to support at-risk students and granting flexibility in the use of such funds by school boards; (v) lowering the ratio of English language learner students to teachers; (vi) requiring each school board to employ reading specialists and establishing a student-to-position ratio for such specialists; (vii) requiring school boards to employ one full-time principal in each elementary school; (viii) lowering the ratio of students to assistant principals and school counselors in elementary, middle, and high schools; and (ix) requiring each school board to provide at least four specialized student support positions, including school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavior analysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions, per 1,000 students.

Standards of Quality; work-based learning and principal mentorship, teacher leaders and mentors.

Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Del. Betsy Carr [D]
Del. Joshua Cole [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. Mark Keam [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Martha Mugler [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]
Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. David Reid [D]	Del. Don Scott [D]
Del. Shelly Simonds [D]	Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg [D]	Del. Rodney Willett [D]

2021-01-20 - House - House: Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	House	Left in Appropriations
2021-01-20	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-20	House	Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N)
2021-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2021-01-14	House	Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
2021-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2021-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101610D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	129	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	199.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:2	(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
22	1	274	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	274.01:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	294	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	299.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	303	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	305.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
51	1	617	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB1929
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB1929+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB1929F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H0903V0001+HB1929
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H09V0029+HB1929