Virginia House Bill 878 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2008 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2008-02-06 - House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote

Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to allocate 65 percent of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their operating budgets allocated to instructional spending. Any school division that fails to meet the 65 percent requirement must present a plan to the Board of Education to increase instructional spending by 0.5 percent in the following fiscal year. School divisions failing to submit such a plan must be audited by the Auditor of Public Accounts, who is required to submit recommendations to the Board, including instruction concerning how failing school divisions can increase their instructional spending to 65 percent. In addition, the Board must annually report to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Appropriations the amount of spending allocated by the local school divisions to instructional spending based on the reports submitted annually by the local school boards.

School divisions, local; requires 65% of each education dollar to be spent in classroom, report.

Del. David Albo [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. George Loupassi [R]	Del. James Massie [R]
Del. Harvey Morgan [R]	Del. Christopher Peace [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-02-06		House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote
2008-01-14		House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education (Tata)
2008-01-08		House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2008-01-08		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 084167606

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?081+sum+HB878