Virginia Senate Bill 239 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-09 - Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 2-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list of topics that shall be included in the Standards of Learning for the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to develop and submit to the Board of Education (i) a rubric that shall be used by the Board of Education in setting out what factors permit a school to be defined as a STEM school and (ii) recommendations for the Board to create a measurement for quality of STEM programming in general education instruction. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to draft and report to the Department of Education proposed common language and terminology that better defines the basic literacies employed in STEM+C as methodological approaches to solving universal human challenges and, as essential, generalizable and transferable literacy toward the application of skills and content needed to solve those challenges. The bill also directs the Department of Education, based on such proposed language and terminology and no later than December 1, 2022, to recommend finalized language and terminology to the Board of Education.

STEM+C; included in Standards of Learning.

Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]

2022-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 2-N) (Y: 14 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-09	Senate	Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 2-N)
2022-01-27	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2022-01-27	Senate	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2022-01-19	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2022-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103912D

SB239 (Carry Over) 2022-02-09 - Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 2-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	253.13:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	367	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB239
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB239+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB239F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S04V0044+SB0239
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S05V0164+SB0239