Virginia House Bill 228 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Board of Education; graduation requirements; computer programming as foreign language. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, to provide that the standard units of credit in foreign language required to graduate with an advanced studies diploma may be satisfied by the successful completion of computer programming courses approved by the Board. The bill also requires the Board to establish criteria for the approval of computer programming coursework completed at an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher education or an associate-degree-granting private institution of higher education for the purpose of satisfying such foreign language graduation requirements. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2018.

Graduation requirements; computer programming as foreign language.

Del. David Albo [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Education
2016-02-08	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-19	House	Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation
2015-12-29	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2015-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100779D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB228
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB228+hil