Virginia Senate Bill 372 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-01-16 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Early childhood education. Requires, on and after July 1, 2019, all school divisions to provide early childhood education programs for four-year-olds and five-year-olds who are not eligible to attend kindergarten or at-risk early childhood education programs and whose parents voluntarily wish to enroll them in such programs. These mandated early childhood education programs must be coordinated with the current at-risk early childhood programs, consistent with the Department of Education's guidelines for early childhood education, and meet the standards established by the Board of Education. The Board of Education is required to promulgate regulations to implement the orderly phase-in of the required programs with the current voluntary programs for at-risk four-year-olds and at-risk five-year-olds who are not eligible to attend kindergarten. Implementation and funding of the required public school early childhood education programs is contingent on funding in the appropriation act. The grants for the at-risk programs may continue to be funded in public schools or other local agencies; however, the Standards of Quality funding of early childhood education will only be provided to public schools.

Early childhood education; school divisions to provide certain programs for 4 and 5 year children.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2014-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-16	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N)
2014-01-08	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2014-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2014-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101707D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB372
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB372+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S04V0219+SB0372