Virginia Senate Bill 83 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 1 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-01-18 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria–holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child–by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-age child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends. Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria–holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child–by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-age child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends.

Home instruction; removes certain criteria for parents.

Sen. John McGuire [R]

2024-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-18	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
2024-01-10	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
2024-01-01	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2024-01-01	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102945D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	254.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB83
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB83+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB83F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0023+SB0083