Virginia House Bill 581 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Local school boards; teacher career ladder compensation programs. Requires each local school board to establish a teacher career ladder compensation program (program) whereby each rung on the ladder corresponds to a specific teacher career and compensation level as determined by the local school board. The bill requires each local school board to design and implement its own program, provided, however, that each program shall include the following principles and components: (i) each teacher shall provide increasing levels of student academic progress as measured by objective criteria before the teacher progresses to the next rung of the ladder; (ii) each teacher shall demonstrate improvement in teaching skills before the teacher progresses to the next rung of the ladder; (iii) each teacher shall assume additional teaching and other responsibilities such as curriculum development, team teaching, mentoring, and professional development activities before the teacher progresses to the next rung of the ladder; (iv) the local school board is responsible for providing teachers in the program with appropriate professional growth and development opportunities; and (v) the local school board shall ensure that equal pay is provided to teachers in the program who are performing at the same level. The bill provides that teacher participation in a teacher career ladder compensation program is optional and any teacher may opt to be compensated pursuant to the local school board's standard salary scale.

School boards, local; teacher career ladder compensation programs.

Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg [D]

Del. Kenneth Plum [D]

2022-01-25 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Education
2022-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2022-01-24	House	Assigned Education sub: K-12
2022-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2022-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101950D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	295.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB581
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB581+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB581F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H0901V0018+HB0581