Virginia Senate Bill 227 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-08 - Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions; programs for at-risk students. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include facilities staff and transportation staff salaries in the calculation of any cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions that is provided as part of the state share of basic aid pursuant to the general appropriation act; (ii) requiring the Department, when estimating the cost of any compensation supplement for instructional and support positions under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include and estimate the cost of such a compensation supplement for facilities staff; (iii) prohibiting the Department from applying any cap on inflation rate adjustments to non-personal cost categories during the biennial process of rebenchmarking the direct aid to public education budget; and (iv) requiring the Department to utilize a three-year average of the most recently available data to calculate the composite index of local ability-to-pay for each school division. The bill also amends Standard of Quality 2 by (a) including in the definition of "support services position" any central office clerical position that is not otherwise set forth in such definition, (b) requiring a per-pupil Standards of Quality funding add-on to be provided for English language learner and special education students, (c) requiring, in addition to the positions supported by basic aid, state funding, pursuant to the general appropriation act, to be provided to cover the actual average school division cost to educate children with disabilities, and (d) establishing the At-Risk Program, defined in the bill as any state funding provided for programs of prevention, intervention, or remediation or pursuant to the at-risk add-on for the purpose of supporting programs for students who are educationally at risk. The bill requires (1) the determination of the amount of state funding for which a school division is eligible pursuant to such At-Risk Program to be based on the school division's identified student percentage, defined in the bill as the fraction, expressed as a percentage, that results from dividing the number of identified students enrolled in a school division by the total number of students enrolled in such school division, weighted by the factor of 1.5, and then adjusted by the addition of a percentage that corrects for undercounting English language learner students as identified students and (2) such funding to be distributed as follows: 60 percent on a flat per-student rate and 40 percent on a variable rate set out in the general appropriation act based on the concentration of poverty in the school division.

Public school funding; places several parameters on SOQ funding calculations performed by DOE.

Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]

Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]

2024-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-08	Senate	Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
2024-02-01	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2024-02-01	Senate	Committee substitute printed 24105876D-S1
2024-02-01	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-24	Senate	Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
2024-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2024-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104668D

HB624 (Similar To) 2024-05-17 - Governor: Vetoed by Governor
SB105 (Similar To) 2024-05-17 - Governor: Vetoed by Governor

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	199.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	98.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
51	1	617	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB227
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB227+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB227S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24105876D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB227FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0090+SB0227
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S05V0279+SB0227