Virginia Senate Bill 785 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 5 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-03-06 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Access to electronic textbooks and adequate connectivity. Prohibits local school boards from requiring the use of any electronic textbook in any course in grades six through 12 unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that on or before July 1, 2020, (i) each student enrolled in such course will have actual access at school and, if any assignment requires the use of such electronic textbook outside of school hours, in his residence to at least one personal computing device not shared with another student that contains an operating system and the hardware necessary to support the format of each electronic textbook expected to be used in such course and (ii) the relevant school has adequate connectivity, which the bill defines as bandwidth of at least one megabit per second per enrolled student.

Electronic textbooks; prohibits local school boards from requiring use in any course in grades 6-12.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2018-03-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-28 - House - House: Reported from Education with amendment (13-Y 9-N) (Y: 13 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-26 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-06	House	Left in Appropriations
2018-03-02	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2018-03-01	House	Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
2018-02-28	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2018-02-28	House	Reported from Education with amendment (13-Y 9-N)
2018-02-26	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
2018-02-20	House	Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3
2018-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2018-02-08	House	Read first time
2018-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2018-02-06	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB785S1
2018-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 18106300D-S1
2018-02-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2018-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2018-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2018-02-01	Senate	Committee substitute printed 18106300D-S1
2018-02-01	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2018-01-24	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-01-10	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 18103352D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	241	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	241.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB785
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB785+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB785S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0124+SB0785
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0263SB0785+SB0785
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0295SB0785+SB0785
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0903V0042+SB0785
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H09V0178+SB0785
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0203V0086+SB0785