VA SB624 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Public education; student literacy measures. Clarifies several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act (the Act), enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and effective with the 2024-2025 school year, including (i) clarifying that the term "evidence-based literacy instruction" does not include practices that instruct students to gain meaning from print through the use of (a) three-cueing, which includes semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues; (b) meaning, structure, and visual cues; or (c) visual memory for word recognition; (ii) removing the option to use a literacy screener approved by the Department of Education for certain purposes enumerated in the Act; (iii) requiring the Department to develop a list of core literacy curricula for students in kindergarten through grade five and supplemental instruction practices and programs and intervention programs for students in kindergarten through grade eight that consist of evidence-based literacy instruction aligned with science-based reading research; and (iv) requiring each divisionwide literacy plan to address how the local school board will align (a) core reading and literacy curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade five and (b) screening, supplemental instruction, and interventions for students in kindergarten through grade eight with evidence-based literacy instruction practices aligned with science-based reading research.
Title
Public education; student literacy measures.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) (Y: 99 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - House - House: Reported from Education (20-Y 1-N) (Y: 20 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - House - House: Reported from Education (20-Y 1-N) (Y: 20 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-08 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) | |
| 2024-03-08 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (effective 7/1/24) | |
| 2024-03-01 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 | |
| 2024-03-01 | Senate | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 |
| 2024-02-24 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2024-02-21 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB624ER) |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2024-02-19 | House | VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) |
| 2024-02-19 | House | Passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-19 | House | Read third time |
| 2024-02-16 | House | Read second time |
| 2024-02-14 | House | Reported from Education (20-Y 1-N) |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Referred to Committee on Education |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Read first time |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| 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 24103040D |
Same As/Similar To
HB647 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044)
Subjects
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 1 | 1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 22 | 1 | 253.13:1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 22 | 1 | 253.13:6 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
