Virginia House Bill 2339 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Access to electronic textbooks and adequate connectivity. Prohibits school boards from making electronic textbooks available for use by students in their residence or residences unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that by July 1, 2018, every student in the local school division will have access to (i) a personal computing device capable of supporting such textbooks and (ii) adequate connectivity, which the bill defines as bandwidth of at least 1 megabit per second per student. The bill permits a local school board to establish a pilot program for the use of electronic textbooks at any secondary school in the local school division provided that (a) each student at the secondary school has access to a personal computing device capable of supporting such textbooks, (b) each student at the secondary school has access to adequate connectivity, and (c) the secondary school is receiving federal funds pursuant to Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or no more than five percent of the students in the local school division or 300 children, whichever is greater, participate in the pilot program.

Electronic textbooks; access by students in their residence.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2015-02-04 - House - House: Reported from Education (16-Y 6-N) (Y: 17 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-03 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	House	Left in Appropriations
2015-02-05	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2015-02-04	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2015-02-04	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2015-02-04	House	Reported from Education (16-Y 6-N)
2015-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2015-02-03	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
2015-01-26	House	Assigned Education sub: Education Reform
2015-01-23	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2015-01-23	House	Presented and ordered printed 15100765D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	241	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	241.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB2339
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB2339+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+H0903V0041+HB2339
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+H09V0091+HB2339