VA HB535 | 2025 | Regular Session

Note: Carry Over of previous HB535

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of Early Childhood Care and Education of the Department of Education, in consultation with the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to (i) conduct a comprehensive review of the findings and recommendations contained in the 2017 report of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, Improving Virginia's Early Childhood Development Programs, to determine what barriers, gaps, and deficiencies continue to exist in the provision of high-quality early childhood education and care in the Commonwealth, with a particular focus on gaps and deficiencies in the ongoing monitoring of Virginia Preschool Initiative program quality, including the collection and analysis of data relating to outcomes and kindergarten readiness, and (ii) report its findings and any associated policy recommendations to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024.

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Title

Early childhood care and education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations.

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History

DateChamberAction
2024-02-05HouseContinued to 2025 in Education by voice vote
2024-01-31HouseSubcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote
2024-01-19HouseAssigned Education sub: Early Childhood
2024-01-08HouseReferred to Committee on Education
2024-01-08HousePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101851D

Same As/Similar To

HB535 (Carry Over) 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote

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