VA HB5008 | 2020 | 1st Special Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Introduced on August 11 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on August 11 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
School closure; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that a public school in the Commonwealth is closed for in-person instruction for 30 or more days during a school year, the parent of an enrolled student who withdraws his child from attendance at such school to receive, upon request, an education voucher in an amount equal to a prorated share of the applicable Standards of Quality per-pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division, including the per-pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per-pupil share of special education funding for which the child is eligible, to cover the expenses of providing home instruction or tuition and fees at a nonpublic school for such student for the remainder of the school year. The bill permits the Department of Education to establish rules, regulations, or procedures for the issuance of such education vouchers. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Title
School closure; education vouchers, funding for home instruction, etc.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-09 | House | Left in Education |
| 2020-08-11 | House | Referred to Committee on Education |
| 2020-08-11 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200354D |
Code Citations
Virginia State Sources
| Type | Source |
|---|---|
| Summary | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5008 |
| Text | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5008+hil |
