VA HB669 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 million individuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world and to be suitably observed by a public exercise in the Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor may designate in such proclamation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to include in the history and social science Standards of Learning in grades six through 12 and each school board to emphasize in its Standards-aligned program of instruction in grades six through 12 the study of the dangers of communism.
Title
Standards of Learning; instruction on dangers and victims of communism.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-05 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 4-N) (Y: 6 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-13 | House | Left in Education |
| 2024-02-05 | House | Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 4-N) |
| 2024-01-19 | House | Assigned Education sub: Higher Education |
| 2024-01-09 | House | Referred to Committee on Education |
| 2024-01-09 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100253D |
Subjects
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 3320.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 22 | 1 | 253.13:1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
