Virginia House Bill 654

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides (a) a description of the purpose of each state-supported assessment, (b) an explanation of how to interpret student data on each state-supported assessment, (c) a comparison of a student's performance on each state-supported assessment with the performance of the student's school, the student's school division, and the Commonwealth, and (d) guidance to support parents in understanding and addressing the specific academic needs of their students; (iii) is viewable from a mobile device in addition to a desktop computer; (iv) leverages existing school division user management to restrict user access to students and their parents; and (v) is compatible with each local school division's existing student information system to enable direct integration of state-supported assessment data into local school division parent portals. Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides (a) a description of the purpose of each state-supported assessment, (b) an explanation of how to interpret student data on each state-supported assessment, (c) a comparison of a student's performance on each state-supported assessment with the performance of the student's school, the student's school division, and the Commonwealth, and (d) guidance to support parents in understanding and addressing the specific academic needs of their students; (iii) is viewable from a mobile device in addition to a desktop computer; (iv) leverages existing school division user management to restrict user access to students and their parents; and (v) is compatible with each local school division's existing student information system to enable direct integration of state-supported assessment data into local school division parent portals. The bill requires the Board and the Department of Education to develop professional development for principals and teachers in encouraging and supporting parents to engage with, interpret, and use student assessment data available through the Portal to support their student's learning and requires each school board to annually provide such professional development to principals and teachers.

Virginia Parent Data Portal; Board of Education to create and maintain.

Del. Carrie Coyner [R]

2024-02-09 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 1-N) (Y: 4 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-05 - House - House: Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Appropriations
2024-02-09	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 1-N)
2024-02-08	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2024-02-07	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2024-02-07	House	Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
2024-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2024-02-05	House	Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
2024-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2024-02-05	House	Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N)
2024-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Education
2024-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
2024-01-26	House	Assigned CT & I sub: Communications
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104958D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB654
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB654+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB654F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H2101V0001+HB0654
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H21V0011+HB0654
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0901V0090+HB0654
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H09V0126+HB0654
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0203V0037+HB0654