Virginia Senate Bill 738 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 13 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-03-06 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Commission on the Future of Public Elementary and Secondary Education established. Establishes the 21-member Commission on the Future of Public Elementary and Secondary Education (the Commission), consisting of seven members of the House Committee on Education, seven members of the Senate, five nonlegislative citizen members, the Superintendent of Public Instruction or his designee, and the Secretary of Education or his designee, for the purpose of ensuring a deliberate, thoughtful, coordinated, and year-round approach to legislative education reform in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Commission to (i) collaborate with the Board of Education, the Department of Education, the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee, and other interested stakeholders to study (a) the need for revisions to or reorganization of the Standards of Quality with a particular emphasis on the effective use of educational technology, (b) emerging education issues in the Commonwealth, and (c) the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth and (ii) establish and appoint members from a variety of stakeholder organizations to subcommittees in distinct subject matter areas. The provisions of the bill sunset on July 1, 2021, and are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Public Elementary and Secondary Education, Commission on the Future of; established, report.

Sen. Stephen Newman [R]

2018-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Rules with amendments (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-06	House	Left in Appropriations
2018-02-19	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2018-02-19	House	Read first time
2018-02-19	House	Placed on Calendar
2018-02-13	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-13	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-13	Senate	Printed as engrossed 18101932D-E
2018-02-13	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB738E
2018-02-13	Senate	Committee amendments agreed to
2018-02-13	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2018-02-13	Senate	Read second time
2018-02-13	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-12	Senate	Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
2018-02-09	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2018-02-09	Senate	Reported from Rules with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rules
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101932D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB738
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB738+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB738E+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S10V0015+SB0738
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S05V0235+SB0738
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0494SB0738+SB0738
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0495SB0738+SB0738
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0496SB0738+SB0738