Virginia Senate Bill 609 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-08 - Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes 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 (i) the determination of the amount of state funding for which a school division is eligible pursuant to the 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 (ii) 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. The bill provides that any school division that would have received more state funds for the at-risk add-on and programs of prevention, intervention, or remediation than it would pursuant to the consolidation of such state funding sources under the At-Risk Program established in the bill shall be held harmless and shall not have its share of such state funding reduced, effective for the 2024–2025 school year through the 2026–2027 school year.

At-Risk Program; established, public school funding.

Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]

Sen. Danica Roem [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 (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	Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-24	Senate	Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
2024-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2024-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104574D

HB825 (Similar To) 2024-03-09 - Left in Finance and Appropriations

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
51	1	617	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB609
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB609+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB609F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0103+SB0609
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S05V0284+SB0609