Virginia House Bill 1978 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (Council), including at least one teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization, school administrator, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than

Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council; established.

Del. Richard Sullivan [D]

2019-01-25 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 5-N) (Y: 2 N: 5 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2019-01-21 - House - House: Reported from Science and Technology with amendment (15-Y 7-N) (Y: 15 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Appropriations
2019-01-25	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 5-N)
2019-01-21	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2019-01-21	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2019-01-21	House	Reported from Science and Technology with amendment (15-Y 7-N)
2019-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Science and Technology
2019-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100531D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	23.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1978
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1978+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H21V0004+HB1978
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0203V0008+HB1978