VA SB160 | 2018 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on December 28 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-01 - Continued to 2019 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on December 28 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-01 - Continued to 2019 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Education, to (i) select, with input from an advisory committee that the bill establishes, language development milestones and include such milestones in a resource for use by parents of a child from birth to age five who is identified as deaf or hard of hearing to monitor and track their child's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy; (ii) disseminate such resource to such parents; (iii) select existing tools or assessments for educators for use in assessing the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing; (iv) disseminate such tools or assessments to local educational agencies and provide materials and training on their use; and (v) annually produce a report that compares the language and literacy development of children from birth to age five who are deaf or hard of hearing with the language and literacy development of their peers who are not deaf or hard of hearing and make such report available to the public on its website.
Title
Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2018-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2018-02-01 | Senate | Continued to 2019 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
2017-12-28 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
2017-12-28 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103397D |