Virginia Senate Bill 291 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2014 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-03-04 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Visually impaired students; Braille. Requires each visually impaired student to be evaluated by a certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired and requires the student to receive instruction in Braille or the use of Braille unless the team responsible for developing the student's IEP (IEP team) or the team responsible for developing the student's plan pursuant to § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (504 team) determines that instruction in Braille or the use of Braille is not appropriate to the student's educational needs. Current law requires a determination of the appropriateness of Braille but does not require the evaluation. The bill allows IEP teams and 504 teams to provide other specialized educational services and assistive technology devices in addition to Braille. The bill disallows the presence of some residual vision from precluding instruction in Braille and the use of Braille. The bill permits IEP teams and 504 teams to provide blind students with instruction in Braille mathematics code in addition to Braille.

Visually impaired students; evaluation by certified Teacher of Visually Impaired.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

Sen. Phillip Puckett [D]

Sen. Charles Carrico [R]

2014-02-17 - House - House: Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 23 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (17-Y 0-N) (Y: 17 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-04	House	Left in Appropriations
2014-02-27	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2014-02-18	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2014-02-17	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2014-02-17	House	Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
2014-02-12	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2014-02-12	House	Read first time
2014-02-12	House	Placed on Calendar
2014-02-07	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2014-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB291S1
2014-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 14104237D-S1
2014-02-06	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2014-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2014-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-04	Senate	Reported from Finance (17-Y 0-N)
2014-01-30	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2014-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute printed 14104237D-S1
2014-01-30	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2014-01-08	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2014-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2014-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102564D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	217	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB291
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB291+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB291S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S04V0083+SB0291
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S05V0112+SB0291
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0285SB0291+SB0291
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0307SB0291+SB0291
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H09V0159+SB0291