Virginia House Bill 221 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 14 2022 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-02 - Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list of topics that shall be included in the Standards of Learning for the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to develop and submit to the Board of Education (i) a rubric that shall be used by the Board of Education in setting out what factors permit a school to be defined as a STEM school and (ii) recommendations for the Board to create a measurement for quality of STEM programming in general education instruction. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to draft and report to the Department of Education proposed common language and terminology that better defines the basic literacies employed in STEM+C as methodological approaches to solving universal human challenges and, as essential, generalizable and transferable literacy toward the application of skills and content needed to solve those challenges. The bill also directs the Department of Education, based on such proposed language and terminology and no later than December 1, 2022, to recommend finalized language and terminology to the Board of Education. The bill clarifies that nothing in the foregoing provisions of the bill shall be construed to establish any new course or credit requirements for students. STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list of topics that shall be included in the Standards of Learning for the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to develop and submit to the Board of Education (i) a rubric that shall be used by the Board of Education in setting out what factors permit a school to be defined as a STEM school and (ii) recommendations for the Board to create a measurement for quality of STEM programming in general education instruction. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to draft and report to the Department of Education proposed common language and terminology that better defines the basic literacies employed in STEM+C as methodological approaches to solving universal human challenges and, as essential, generalizable and transferable literacy toward the application of skills and content needed to solve those challenges. The bill also directs the Department of Education, based on such proposed language and terminology and no later than December 1, 2022, to recommend finalized language and terminology to the Board of Education. The bill clarifies that nothing in the foregoing provisions of the bill shall be construed to establish any new course or credit requirements for students.

STEM+C; included in Standards of Learning, Bd. of Education to incorporate certain provisions.

Del. Glenn Davis [R]

2022-03-02 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) (Y: 13 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-15 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-09 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-09 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-02	Senate	Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)
2022-02-24	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2022-02-24	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2022-02-16	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-02-16	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2022-02-15	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2022-02-15	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2022-02-14	House	Printed as engrossed 22103909D-E
2022-02-14	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB221E
2022-02-14	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2022-02-14	House	Read second time
2022-02-11	House	Read first time
2022-02-09	House	Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
2022-02-09	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2022-02-07	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2022-02-07	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2022-02-07	House	Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
2022-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2022-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
2022-01-28	House	Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
2022-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2022-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103909D

HB221 (Carry Over) 2022-03-02 - Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	367	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB221
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB221+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB221E+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22105728A.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB221AH
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB221F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H0903V0038+HB0221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H09V0057+HB0221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H0203V0011+HB0221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H02V0092+HB0221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+HV0832+HB0221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S04V0200+HB0221
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S05V0381+HB0221