Virginia Senate Bill 161 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-01-25 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathway to advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seal; career and technical education. Directs the Board of Education to establish an alternative pathway to the advanced studies high school diploma and an associated diploma seal for students who successfully follow and demonstrate excellence on such pathway, that requires advanced coursework in a career and technical education field but does not require coursework in laboratory science. Under current law, one computer science course credit may count as one of the laboratory science course credits required for an advanced studies high school diploma but there is no pathway to an advanced studies diploma that does not require any laboratory science coursework. The bill requires such pathway and associated diploma seal to become effective for the 2025-2026 school year and to be available to any student, regardless of the school year during which the student enters ninth grade.

High school graduation; alternative pathway to advanced studies diploma & associated diploma seal.

Sen. John McGuire [R]

2024-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-25	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
2024-01-10	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2024-01-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2024-01-05	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103827D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB161
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB161+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0041+SB0161