Virginia Senate Bill 1225 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 1 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Broadband services; education. Authorizes school boards to appropriate funds for the purposes of promoting, facilitating, and encouraging the expansion and operation of broadband services for educational purposes. The bill authorizes school boards to partner with private broadband service providers to promote, implement, and subsidize broadband for educational purposes to the households of students who would qualify for (i) a child nutrition program or (ii) any other program recognized or adopted by the local school board as a measuring standard to identify at-risk students.

Broadband services; school boards to appropriate funds for expansion of services for education.

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]	Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]	Sen. Amanda Chase [R]
Sen. Janet Howell [D]	Sen. Dave Marsden [D]	Sen. Monty Mason [D]	Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]
Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2021-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-08	House	Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote
2021-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2021-02-05	House	Read first time
2021-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-02	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
2021-02-01	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2021-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
2021-01-28	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N)
2021-01-20	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2021-01-18	Senate	Rereferred to Education and Health
2021-01-18	Senate	Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
2021-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2021-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101489D

SB1225 (Carry Over) 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	986	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	79.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1225
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1225+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1225F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S02V0015+SB1225
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S04V0067+SB1225
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0184SB1225+SB1225
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0229SB1225+SB1225